ILJH Reading Group

A reading and community-building project with a through-line of ethics of solidarity - practicing accountability, responsibility and speaking up. Get to know ourselves and each other through reading works that bring a tingle down the spine.

Semester 1 2024

Conversations take place from 2.30 - 4.00pm at the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub, Mezzanine level Melbourne Law School.

• Conversation 1 – Wednesday  31^st January
  • Professor Eve Tuck (Unangax̂), ‘Biting the University that Feeds Us’ in Marc Spooner and James Mcninch (eds) Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education (University of Regina Press, 2018) 149. Note: You can also watch Professor Eve Tuck give a lecture based on this essay
• Conversation 2 – Friday February 23^rd
  • Moana Jackson (Ngāti Kahungugu, Ngāti Porou), ‘Where to next? Decolonisation and the stories in the land’ in Rebecca Kiddle (eds) Imagining Decolonisation (BWB texts, 2020) 55. Note: you can also watch Moana Jackson give a lecture based on this chapter

• Conversation 3 – Friday March 15^th
  • Professor Chelsea Watego (Mununjali and South Sea Islander), ‘Don’t feed the natives’ and ‘a final word…on joy’ in Another Day in the Colony (University of Queensland Press, 2021)
• Conversation 4 – Friday April 12^th
  • Alexis Pauline Gumbs, ‘a note’ in Dubs: Finding Ceremony (Duke University Press, 1982) ix
• Conversation 5 – Friday May 3^rd
  • Surabahi Ranganathan, ‘Decolonization and International Law: Putting the Ocean on the Map’ (2021) 23(1) Journal of the history of international law 161
• Conversation 6 – Friday May 24^th
  • Professor bell hooks ‘introduction’ and ‘engaged pedagogy’ in Teaching to Transgress: education as the practice of freedom (Routledge, 1994) 1

Email mls-Indigenous@unimelb.edu.au with any inquiries about this reading group

Artwork by Carly Donovan (Wiradjuri and Dunghutti) colleague at Murrup Barak.