Wollotuka student wins 2020 Higher Degree by Research Excellence Award
Cara Cross has won best forthcoming publication for her article, Our Country, Our Healer. Aboriginal Apothecaries of Burning Mountain during… Read more
Purai Global Indigenous History Centre
Purai is an Awabakal word meaning “the world, earth”.
The Purai
Global Indigenous History Centre is an exciting research initiative integrating global and transnational analytical perspectives and frameworks with research on Indigenous and diaspora histories and other related histories of race.
Drawing upon our extensive national and international connections throughout the world, Purai harnesses collaborations that lead to high-quality original research projects and the development of productive new knowledge networks.
By integrating Indigenous and transnational/transcolonial global historical scholarship with approaches from a range of disciplines, Purai aims to generate new and ground-breaking interdisciplinary research methodologies for the study of global Indigenous histories.
The ‘Torres Strait 8’ versus Australia: Law Professor delivers presentation at Human Rights Day
Purai member and University of Newcastle’s Law School Professor, Amy Maguire, will talk about a world-first claim by Indigenous people… Read more
Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land: 2020 NAIDOC Lecture
Western science has pushed the Aboriginal presence back to a staggering 65,000 years, recognising that Aboriginal people carry the longest… Read more
Academy membership great source of pride
In 2014 Professor John Maynard, a scholar of Indigenous history and Co-Director of Purai Indigenous Global History Centre, was elected… Read more
Research uncovers the historical experiences of the earliest global domestic workers
A new research project will bring to life the experiences and histories of the world’s first travelling global domestic workers,… Read more
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