BARREENG YIRRAMBOI
19 to 20 JULY 2022, Monash University Caulfield Campus
Barreeng Yirramboi is a research symposium and exhibition program presented by the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab at Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA). It aims to highlight the relationality between practice-led research and Indigenous ways of knowing.
Barreeng Yirramboi are Boon Wurrung words translating as tracks towards tomorrow or as Senior Boonwurrung Elder, N’arweet Professor Carolyn Briggs AM explains “it’s about the journey of coming into knowledge and envisioning new futures”.
Keynote speakers:
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Associate Professor Ali Gumillya Baker (Mirning) and Dr Faye Rosas Blanch (Yidinyji/Mbararam) will speak together about refusal, collectivity and vulnerability.
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James Nguyen, speaking in broken tongues, will question how might refugees from non-English speaking backgrounds come to terms with our occupation of Aboriginal Land? How do we contest the resettlement myth of the tabula rasa – the fresh start – the Diasporic Neo-Terra Nullius?
For more information or to register for the event visit
https://www.monash.edu/mada/
Registrations close 11 July
Image: From series (Dis)connected to Country, Pitta Pitta (Via the Colonial Gaze), 2020. Courtesy of the artist Jahkarli Romanis
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