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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
20/05/2025
Join Global Encounters Monash (GEM) this Thursday 22 May at 6pm AEST for our next online seminar! Professor Tom Murray from Macquarie University will discuss encounters, trading relationships and cultural exchange as documented in several of his audio and audio-visual works.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/mvwunyss
