Courting Blakness online archive launch

Event Details

Date:

Thursday, 17 December 2015

Time:

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Room:

601

UQ Location:

Michie Building (St Lucia)

URL:

http://courtingblakness.com/

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University was a public art exhibition involving eight Aboriginal artists and held in the Great Court between September 5-28 in 2014.

Staff and students are warmly invited to join Adjunct Professor Fiona Foley and Dr Zala Volcic in a panel discussion to launch the Courting Blakness online archive.

In addition to the panel discussion, Fiona Nicoll will present a tour of the archive, Irene Howe will introduce the BlackWords database and David Bergener will discuss early findings of his research on dialogues generated by the Courting Blakness project.

Copies of the Courting Blakness publication by UQP will also be available for sale and signing.