**This event is almost at capacity. If you get a sold out message and would like to be added to the waitlist, please email [email protected]** A powerful opening event with Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson and the Unbound Collective

Join us for a powerful opening event with Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson, author of the global phenomenon, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman and the Unbound Collective. Moreton-Robinson will bring her deep expertise as a writer and academic to present an impactful evening to both challenge and inform conversations about writing and racism.

An initiative of the City of Adelaide delivered in partnership with Writers SA

About the Artists

Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Goenpul woman of the Quandamooka people (Moreton Bay). She is Australia’s first Indigenous Distinguished Professor, and is currently Professor of Indigenous Research, School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. Distinguished Professor Moreton-Robinson is the current President elect of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).

Her publications have international standing and global reach. The twentieth anniversary edition of her first monograph Talkin Up to the White Woman: Indigenous women and Feminism released in July 2020 sold 2000 copies in a matter of days. Her second monograph The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty (2015) won the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s (NAISA) subsequent book prize in 2016. Her edited collections include Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism 2004 (AIATSIS), Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters 2007, Allen & Unwin, Transnational Whiteness Matters 2008, Lexington Press, Critical Indigenous Studies: First World Locations and Engagement published by Minnesota Press in 2016 and the Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies, published in December 2020. Professor Moreton- Robinson served on several international editorial boards including American Quarterly, the Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies and Critical Ethnic Studies. In 2020, she was the first Indigenous scholar outside of the USA to be elected as an Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

The Unbound Collective seeks to engage Aboriginal community members who historically have been contained and excluded within and beyond the mortar and boundaries of Adelaide’s so-called cultural precinct, and to speak back to colonial institutions of power as dominant repositories of knowledge. Each member of the collective singularly and collectively addresses the notions of ethical practice and responsibility, enacting memory and storytelling, and offers an interrogation of state colonial archives. They explore complex ideas around being free or bound, and offer poetic, performance and music-based investigations of sovereign identity and (re)representation.

Faye Rosas Blanch Born 1959, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland. Lives and works on Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Mbararam/Yidinyji, Rainforest region

Natalie Harkin Born 1970, Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Lives and works on Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Narungga, Spencer region

Simone Ulalka Tur Born 1971, Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Lives and works on Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Yankunytjatjara, Western Desert region

Ali Gumillya Baker Born 1975, Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Lives and works on Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Mirning, South-West region

Venue: Adelaide City Library, 3 Rundle Place, 77 Rundle Mall, Adelaide

If you are unable to make the event after registering, please contact [email protected] to allow someone else to take your place.