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The Institute of Postcolonial Studies was founded in 1996 as an independent venue for the exploration of postcolonial scholarship, politics and creative practice.
02/10/2023
There are only a couple of places left to attend the Arena//IPCS event tomorrow night!!! ☢️☢️☢️ The second of two events in collaboration with Arena will be a panel discussion on AUKUS and how we could (and should) respond critically.
Link in bio for last few tix available ~
28/09/2023
🌈 In July we entered the shadow cast by Section 377, exploring the connections between love and law in ’s captivating and heartfelt lecture-performance.
The recording is on our website now for those who missed the chance to catch it live.
📸: Tom Noble
07/03/2023
Palestine & the Culture of Denial
Wednesday 8 March, 6.00 pm
Institute of Postcolonial Studies
Join Saree Makdisi and Jordy Silverstein as we unearth the underside of the liberal settler imagination.
How can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite–as an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism?
Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by many as a manifestation of progressive values. Key to this miraculous act of political alchemy is a very specific form of denial.
SAREE MAKDISI has written extensively on the afterlives of colonialism in the contemporary Arab world. His most recent book is Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (University of California Press, 2022). He is also the author of Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture (2014); Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (2010).
JORDANA SILVERSTEIN is a Senior Research Fellow in the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (2015) and co-editor of Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance (2021).
This talk is part of a series on Palestine, anticolonial solidarity and public critique at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in collaboration with the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network and Free Palestine Melbourne.
Free, though register to join us, link in bio!
The Institute of Postcolonial Studies is an independent public education project – we interrogate colonial relations.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri owners and custodians of the Eastern Kulin nation. IPCS stands in solidarity with Indigenous struggles for social justice and decolonisation in so called Australia and globally. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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03/03/2023
On Courageous Writing for Palestine
Saturday 11 March, 5.30 pm
Institute of Postcolonial Studies
What responsibility do we have to centre courageous critique?
Join writer and editor Ramzy Baroud, poet and critic Jeanine Leane, and scholar-activist Tasnim Sammak, as we discuss the vital role of public-facing writing and speech and the liberal forms of settler silencing.
RAMZY BAROUD is a syndicated columnist, the author of six books and the editor of The Palestine Chronicle. Baroud has a PhD in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter. His books include My Father was a Freedom Fighter and The Last Earth. His latest book, co-edited with Professor Ilan Pappé is Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out.
JEANINE LEANE is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from southwest New South Wales. Her poetry, short stories, critique, and essays have been published in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes, Overland and the Sydney Review of Books. Jeanine has published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness and creative non-fiction. Jeanine was the recipient of the University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize, and she has won the Oodgeroo Noonucal Prize for Poetry twice (2017 & 2019.
This talk is part of a series on Palestine, anticolonial solidarity and public critique at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in collaboration with the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network and Free Palestine Melbourne.
Free, though register to join us, link in bio!
The Institute of Postcolonial Studies is an independent public education project – we interrogate colonial relations.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri owners and custodians of the Eastern Kulin nation. IPCS stands in solidarity with Indigenous struggles for social justice and decolonisation in so called Australia and globally. Sovereignty was never ceded.
me Palestine 🇵🇸 ✊🏾
03/03/2023
On Courageous Writing for Palestine
Saturday 11 March, 5.30 pm
Institute of Postcolonial Studies
What responsibility do we have to centre courageous critique?
Join writer and editor Ramzy Baroud, poet and critic Jeanine Leane, and scholar-activist Tasnim Sammak, as we discuss the vital role of public-facing writing and speech and the liberal forms of settler silencing.
RAMZY BAROUD is a syndicated columnist, the author of six books and the editor of The Palestine Chronicle. Baroud has a PhD in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter. His books include My Father was a Freedom Fighter and The Last Earth. His latest book, co-edited with Professor Ilan Pappé is Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out.
JEANINE LEANE is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from southwest New South Wales. Her poetry, short stories, critique, and essays have been published in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes, Overland and the Sydney Review of Books. Jeanine has published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness and creative non-fiction. Jeanine was the recipient of the University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize, and she has won the Oodgeroo Noonucal Prize for Poetry twice (2017 & 2019.
This talk is part of a series on Palestine, anticolonial solidarity and public critique at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in collaboration with the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network and Free Palestine Melbourne.
Free, though register to join us, link in bio!
The Institute of Postcolonial Studies is an independent public education project – we interrogate colonial relations.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri owners and custodians of the Eastern Kulin nation. IPCS stands in solidarity with Indigenous struggles for social justice and decolonisation in so called Australia and globally. Sovereignty was never ceded.
me Palestine 🇵🇸 ✊🏾
27/02/2023
Palestine & the Culture of Denial
Wednesday 8 March, 7.00-8.30 pm
Institute of Postcolonial Studies
Join Saree Makdisi and Jordy Silverstein we unearth the underside of the liberal settler imagination.
How can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite–as an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism?
Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by many as a manifestation of progressive values. Key to this miraculous act of political alchemy is a very specific form of denial.
Professor Saree Makdisi’s research is situated at the crossroads of British Romanticism, imperial culture, and postcolonial theory and criticism. He has also written extensively on the afterlives of colonialism in the contemporary Arab world.
His most recent book is Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (University of California Press, 2022). He is also the author of Reading William Blake (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2014); Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (Norton, 2010); William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (University of Chicago Press, 2003); and Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
This talk is part of a series on Palestine, anticolonial solidarity and public critique at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in collaboration with the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network and Free Palestine Melbourne.
Free, though register to join us, link in bio!
The Institute of Postcolonial Studies is an independent public education project – we interrogate colonial relations.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri owners and custodians of the Eastern Kulin nation. IPCS stands in solidarity with Indigenous struggles for social justice and decolonisation in so called Australia and globally. Sovereignty was never ceded.
🇵🇸
27/02/2023
Palestine & the Culture of Denial
Wednesday 8 March, 6.00 pm
Institute of Postcolonial Studies
Join Saree Makdisi and Jordy Silverstein we unearth the underside of the liberal settler imagination.
How can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite–as an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism?
Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by many as a manifestation of progressive values. Key to this miraculous act of political alchemy is a very specific form of denial.
Professor Saree Makdisi’s research is situated at the crossroads of British Romanticism, imperial culture, and postcolonial theory and criticism. He has also written extensively on the afterlives of colonialism in the contemporary Arab world.
His most recent book is Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (University of California Press, 2022). He is also the author of Reading William Blake (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2014); Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (Norton, 2010); William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (University of Chicago Press, 2003); and Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
This talk is part of a series on Palestine, anticolonial solidarity and public critique at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in collaboration with the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network and Free Palestine Melbourne.
Free, though register to join us, link in bio!
The Institute of Postcolonial Studies is an independent public education project – we interrogate colonial relations.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri owners and custodians of the Eastern Kulin nation. IPCS stands in solidarity with Indigenous struggles for social justice and decolonisation in so called Australia and globally. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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22/02/2023
Palestine & the Culture of Denial -- Join Saree Makdisi as we unearth the underside of the liberal settler imagination.
How can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite–as an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism?
Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by many as a manifestation of progressive values. Key to this miraculous act of political alchemy is a very specific form of denial.
This talk is part of a series on Palestine, anticolonial solidarity and public critique at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in collaboration with the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network and Free Palestine Melbourne.
Free, though register to join us, link in bio!
The Institute of Postcolonial Studies is an independent public education project – we interrogate colonial relations.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri owners and custodians of the Eastern Kulin nation. IPCS stands in solidarity with Indigenous struggles for social justice and decolonisation in so called Australia and globally. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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31/01/2023
IPCS is open. We interrogate colonial relations.
We're over at 78-80 Curzon Street, North Melbourne.
Come by and check out our post/de/anticolonial library, we've got 25 years plus of Postcolonial Studies here. Meet up and do critical & creative work with others.
Become a member. Link in bio.
https://ipcs.org.au
21/11/2022
📚 We’re having a stall at IRL book fair on Saturday 26 November. Join us from 2pm - 5pm where you’ll find some info about the work we do, printed works, and find out more about our fortnightly reading group 🔥
📍Catalyst social centre - 144-146 Sydney Rd, Coburg
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The Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS) is an independent public education project and space -- we exist to interrogate colonial relations. IPCS is run by a community of academics, scholar-activists, organisers and creatives, developing methodological, theoretical and political contributions that guide our work. We have a lively public program of events, visiting fellows program, projects, and a generative reading group.
Our home is in Curzon St, North Melbourne on Wurundjeri country but have a transnational reach through our main publication, *Postcolonial Studies*.
ipcs.org.au
13/11/2022
Theory is Knowledge is Politics Reading Group — interrogate colonial relations.
Meeting fortnightly, IPCS’ Reading Group works through influential and contemporary texts on postcolonialism, settler colonialism, decoloniality and anticolonial approaches. The reading group is open to scholar-activists, organisers and creatives doing critical work. We are also open to setting up new or online reading groups, working through pressing and vital themes so do write to us if you would like join, or would like to propose a theme or relevant activity. https://ipcs.org.au/ipcs-reading-groups/
| Wednesday | 9am - 6pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 6pm |
| Friday | 9am - 6pm |