Professor Marcia Langton, AM, will deliver the 2007 Mayne Centre lecture on the topic Aboriginal culture: fragile or resilient? at UQ on Tuesday, September 25, at 6pm.
Professor Langton holds the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne.
She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia and a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), and Chair of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership.
From 2004 to 2006 she served as a member of the Board of Jirrawun Arts in the Kimberley and, with many years of experience in the Kimberley region, contributed essays to the exhibition catalogues Blood on the Spinifex (Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne) and Paddy Bedford (MCA, Sydney).
Professor Langton's films include: Jardiwarnpa: a Warlpiri fire (with Ned Lander and Rachel Perkins); Night Cries: a rural tragedy (with Tracey Moffatt and Penny McDonald); and Blood Brothers.
The free lecture is sponsored by Philip Bacon Galleries. It will be at the Mayne Centre, University Drive, The University of Queensland, St Lucia. Refreshments will be served after the lecture.
Bookings are essential at artmuseum@uq.edu.au or telephone 07 3365 3046 by September 21.
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