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Explaining years of research in three minutes and unpacking it in layperson’s terms is fiendishly difficult but this didn’t stop two Wollotuka students for taking up the challenge as part of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

Purai Global Indigenous History Centre’s affiliate, Paddy Gibson, is part of the organising team for an online symposium, in February 2022, about Australian workers and anti-colonialism and would like to hear from scholars interested in the topic. Two keynote speakers University of Sydney’s Profess

Professor Victoria Haskins’ journey into archival research began with a box of diaries, letters and photographs sitting in her aunty’s garage in Woolgoolga, NSW. The discovery of these forgotten papers sparked her fascination with archival research and the histories that can be drawn out from docum

When Newcastle University’s HDR student, Carole Y Johnson first came to Australia 49 years ago to perform at the Adelaide Festival as part of Eleo Pomare’s Dance Company, she did not know she would stay and become an integral part of Indigenous Australia’s protest movement.

Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt AO delivered the inaugural John Maynard Aboriginal History Lecture at University House to an on-line and face-to-face audience of over 180, on 17 March 2021.

Emeritus Professor John Maynard’s reputation as a trailblazer is well-deserved so it is only fitting that this historian, who’s journey began with researching his own family’s history, is honoured in the Inaugural John Maynard Aboriginal History Lecture.

In the first of a four-part webinar series centred on how family history guides and informs research and creative work, Professor Victoria Haskins spoke with Ms Kath Apma Travis Penangke.

Purai’s joint Directors, Emeritus Professor John Maynard and Professor Victoria Haskins, were elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities late last year.

Cara Cross has won best publication for her article ‘Our Country, Our Healer. Aboriginal Apothecaries of Burning Mountain’ during the inaugural Higher Degrees by Research Excellence Awards ceremony in December.

Purai member and University of Newcastle’s Law school Professor, Amy Maguire will talk about a world-first claim by Indigenous people which connects climate change impacts to human rights on Human Rights Day.

In a special NAIDOC Week lecture, on Tuesday 10 November 2020, Professor John Maynard reflected upon the longevity of Aboriginal connection to the Australian continent.

As part of the fourth series of the Melbourne School of Discontent’s Black Fire Lectures Professor John Maynard talks about the important role his grandfather played in the fight for liberty and justice as one of the founding members of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association.