Monash Indigenous Studies Centre

Monash Indigenous Studies Centre The Monash Indigenous Centre offers units that aim to encourage students to understand the past and

We offer a range of undergraduate units in areas such as Indigenous history, anthropology and archaeology. You can take a major or minor as part of an undergraduate degree. We also have postgraduate studies including PhD and Masters programs. Researchers at MISC are involved in exciting projects both here in Australia and around the world. The Monash Country Lines Archive is an important research

arm of MIC and actively works with Indigenous communities throughout Australia. The resultant animations, while created for community use, have with community permission also become an important source of teaching materials and Honours and Post-Graduate research. We see the MCLA as growing and becoming more entwined with the day-to-day teaching and research of MIC and cognate disciplines such Film and Television and Media and Communications. House Rules

Monash Indigenous Centre welcomes everyone interested in our university to like our page and post comments however the material you post on the site may not be illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, or abuse intellectual property rights. We reserve the right to delete any content posted by you if you break these rules. You are responsible for the content you post and all activity that occurs under your account. Do not misrepresent yourself or take on the identity of someone else while using this service. If you feel that someone has misrepresented your identity on the site, please email us at [email protected] and we'll look into it straight away. We are flexible to a degree when it comes to self-promotion and including links to your site. If these links are helpful to our readers, then there is usally no problem. If however, they are considered spam, breach our guidelines, add little value to our students, or are blatant advertising they will be removed. In addition, Monash Indigenous Centre upholds the Terms of Service standards administered by Facebook. Facebook encourages all users to utilise the 'Report' links when they find abusive content. This page is maintained by staff from the Monash Indigenous Centre Marketing team from Monday to Friday. between the hours of 9am and 5pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) tomorrow Thursday 18 June 6pm AEST for our next online seminar! Distinguished Profes...
17/06/2026

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) tomorrow Thursday 18 June 6pm AEST for our next online seminar! Distinguished Professor Lynette Russell AM reflects on the Global Encounters project — its origins, findings, and impact — as we plan for its next iteration.

Register now: https://tinyurl.com/57shnnem

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) this Thursday 28 May 6pm AEST for our next online seminar! This seminar will officia...
26/05/2026

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) this Thursday 28 May 6pm AEST for our next online seminar! This seminar will officially launch Professor Ian J. McNiven’s new book, Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals (University Press of Florida).

Register now: https://tinyurl.com/z4m5z9ke

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) next Thursday 23 April 6pm AEST for our next online seminar! Dr Leonie Stevens will ...
16/04/2026

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) next Thursday 23 April 6pm AEST for our next online seminar! Dr Leonie Stevens will launch one of the major outputs of our project: a survey of encounters between coastal First Nations people and those who came from the sea.

Register now: https://tinyurl.com/35utaa45

Please join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) this Thursday 19 March 6pm AEDT for our next online seminar! Dr Natali Pearso...
15/03/2026

Please join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) this Thursday 19 March 6pm AEDT for our next online seminar! Dr Natali Pearson from University of Sydney will trace the legacy of the Belitung Shipwreck through Tang Dynasty mass production, Indian Ocean trade, shipbuilding technology transfer, and the role of ship reconstruction in bilateral heritage diplomacy.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/26fp3p63

Please join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) tomorrow Tues 3 March 6pm AEDT for our next online seminar! Professor Anja Sc...
02/03/2026

Please join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) tomorrow Tues 3 March 6pm AEDT for our next online seminar! Professor Anja Schwarz from Universität Potsdam will discuss Tupaia’s Map, one of the most famous and enigmatic artefacts to emerge from early encounters between Europeans and Pacific Islanders.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3akaxmtk

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) next Tuesday 3rd March 6pm AEDT for our next online seminar! Professor Anja Schwarz ...
26/02/2026

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) next Tuesday 3rd March 6pm AEDT for our next online seminar! Professor Anja Schwarz from Universität Potsdam will discuss Tupaia’s Map, one of the most famous and enigmatic artefacts to emerge from early encounters between Europeans and Pacific Islanders.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3akaxmtk

Please join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) this Thursday 19 February at 6pm AEDT for our next online seminar! Dr Rohan H...
16/02/2026

Please join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) this Thursday 19 February at 6pm AEDT for our next online seminar! Dr Rohan Howitt from History at Monash will discuss the dramatic encounter between an iceberg and a passenger ship in a remote stretch of the Southern Ocean in 1855.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3hux25se

Please join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) at 2pm this Saturday 4 October to celebrate the opening of Awakening Historie...
01/10/2025

Please join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) at 2pm this Saturday 4 October to celebrate the opening of Awakening Histories at Monash University Museum of Art, an exhibition exploring the deep connections between First Nations Peoples across the north of this continent, now known as Australia, and the Makassan seafarers of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The exhibition will be officially opened by His Excellency Ambassador Dr Siswo Pramono, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to Australia and the Republic of Vanuatu.

Saturday 4 October, 2–4pm.

RSVP here:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/opening-awakening-histories-tickets-1637363962689

Image: Dhambit Munuŋgurr, Gunyaŋara Makassans 2025 (detail). Monash University Collection, Naarm/Melbourne. Image courtesy of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Gadigal/Sydney. Photo: David Suyasa.

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) on Thursday 18 September at 6pm AEST for our next online seminar! Dr Alex Burchmore ...
05/09/2025

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) on Thursday 18 September at 6pm AEST for our next online seminar! Dr Alex Burchmore from ANU's Centre for Art History and Art Theory will discuss models of cultural contact within two recent instances of Aboriginal-Chinese-Australian artistic encounter.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/2s6sy23h

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) next Thursday 19 June at 6pm AEST for our next online seminar! In this special panel...
12/06/2025

Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) next Thursday 19 June at 6pm AEST for our next online seminar! In this special panel presentation, the GEM research team will explore "Alien Encounters and Indigenous Futurisms in Sci-Fi Film and TV".

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/yu3789wu

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