Public talks, forums and guest lectures

Minutes of Evidence project

Conference papers

Balint J and Evans J, (2010) ‘Transitional Justice and Settler States’, ANZCCC: The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, Institute of Criminology, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney            

Evans J. and McMillan N. (2011). ‘Moving On? An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Official Responses to Structural Injustice’. Australian Political Studies Association Conference, Canberra

Evans J & Nanni G (2013), ‘Re-imagining settler sovereignty: the call to law at the Coranderrk Aboriginal reserve, Victoria 1881 (and beyond)’, Dispossession: Indigenous survival, land holding and loss in the midst of settler colonialism symposium, Global Studies Resource Centre, University of Sussex, 4-5 July 2013 

Evans J (2013), ‘Fostering lawful relations in settler societies: the significance of middle grounds’ Monash Criminology Seminar Series, Monash University, 13 November 2013 

Balint J (2012), ‘Minutes of Evidence’: Raising Awareness of Structural Injustice and Justice’, Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, 7-8 July, James Cook University, Townsville. 

Evans J, and McMillan N (2011), 'The Minutes of Evidence project' Indigenous Postgraduate Students Conference, Murrup Barak, University of Melbourne, November 2011

Evans J, McMillan N, Nanni G, Reynolds M (2012), ‘The Minutes of Evidence project: creating collaborative fields of engagement with the past and present’, Settler Colonial Governance in Victoria Workshop, The Institute for Postcolonial Studies, 13 February 2012. 

Cruickshank J and Grimshaw P (2012), ‘Gender, Authority and Power on Ramahyuck Mission, Victoria, 1890-1910’, Settler Colonial Governance in Victoria Workshop, The Institute for Postcolonial Studies, 13 February 2012. 

Balint J, Evans J, McMillan N, Nanni G, Bates, J (2012), ‘The Minutes of Evidence project', Roundtable, Historical Justice and Memory Conference, Swinburne University, 14-15 February 2012 

Cruickshank J, Fitzgerald T, Jones E, McMillan N, Nanni G, Reynolds M (2012), ‘Coranderrk: Bringing History to Life’ Keynote Presentation at the History Teachers Association of Victoria Annual Conference, Hemisphere Conference Centre, Melbourne, 26 July 2012 

Cruickshank J (2013), ‘Mothers, Wives, Daughters: Women and the meanings of 'family' at Ramahyuck Mission, Victoria’ Women on Missions Symposium, Academy of Social Sciences and Griffith Univeristy, Brisbane, 8-9 March 2013 

Evans J (2012), 'The Minutes of Evidence project: Promoting new and collaborative ways of understanding Australia's past and engaging with structural justice', Institute of Historical Studies Seminar Series, Bedford Square, Royal Holloway, University of London, 25 May 2012, Royal Holloway, University of London, (hosted by international PIs Z Laidlaw and A Lester) 

Evans J (2012), 'Expanding the field of engagement: the Minutes of Evidence project', Historians and Justice Roundtable, University of Sydney, 15 October 2012 

Evans J (2012), 'The Minutes of Evidence project: Promoting new and collaborative ways of understanding Australia's past and engaging with structural justice', University of Melbourne Engagement and Partnerships Office PopUp seminar, 21 November 2012 

Evans J (2012), 'From critique to critical practice: expanding the field of engagement with law and history', Responsible Histories panel, Receiving Laws/Giving Laws: 31st Annual Australian and New Zealand law and History Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, 10-12 December 2012 

Lester A (2012), 'Indigenous Engagements with Humanitarian Governance: The Port Phillip Protectorate of Aborigines and Humanitarian Space’, Indigenous Networks and Transnational Cultures: Exploring Trajectories of Mobility, Exchange and Border Crossing symposium, Monash University, Prato, Italy, September 2012 

Grimshaw P (2014), ‘Relations of Colonialism in the Life of a Teacher on a Turn-of the-century Mission in Victoria, Australia’, Berkshire Women's History Conference, Toronto, April 2014.  

Balint J, Brown L, Dullard C, Evans J, Jones L, McMillan M, McMillan N (2014), 'The Minutes of Evidence Project', IILAH CONSTELLATIONS SERIES, hosted by Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, 10 October 2014. Click here for flyer and more details

Balint J (2014), 'Law as a Site of (In)justice for Colonial Harms', at the 8th Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference: Research Praxis and Social Transformation in a Global Era, Monash University, 4-5 December 2014. Click for more details.

Evans J (2014), 'Mass and State Harm and the Possibilities of Justice - Part One and Part Two', at the 8th Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference: Research Praxis and Social Transformation in a Global Era, Monash University, 4-5 December 2014. Click for more details.

McMillan N (2014), 'Imagining the International: Crime and Justice on the Global Stage', at the 8th Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference: Research Praxis and Social Transformation in a Global Era, Monash University, 4-5 December 2014. Click for more details.

Refereed conference proceedings

Balint J and Evans J (2011), ‘Transitional Justice and Settler States’, ANZCCC: The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2010(c) 2011 Institute of Criminology, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney        

Evans J and McMillan N (2011). ‘Moving On? An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Official Responses to Structural Injustice’. Australian Political Studies Association Conference. Werribee, Australia: APSA.

Balint J, Evans J and McMillan N (2012), ‘Minutes of Evidence’: Raising Awareness of Structural Injustice and Justice’ in G. Coventry and M. Shircore (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Annual Australian    and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, 7-8 July, James Cook University, Townsville.

Seminars and symposia

Laidlaw Z and Lester A (2012), Institute of Historical Studies Seminar Series, Bedford Square, Royal Holloway,      University of London, 25 May 2012              

Lester A and Laidlaw Z (2013), ‘Dispossession: Indigenous survival, land holding and loss in the midst ofsettler colonialism’, University of Sussex, UK, 4-5 July 2013

Guest lectures and seminars

Julie Evans has delivered two guest seminars for the University of Melbourne's Australian Indigenous Studies program on the Minutes of Evidence project in 2013: March 4 for the 4th-year Honours subject: 'Activism, Selves and Histories' and May 15 for 3rd Year level subject: 'Historicising the Colonial Past' (with Melodie Reynolds, depending on her availability).

Julie Evans, Joanna Cruickshank and Giordanno Nanni delivered a guest lecture for the Melbourne Graduate School of Education on the Minutes of Evidence project to secondary school teachers undertaking the inaugural Professional Certificate in History Education at the University of Melbourne in Semester 2, 2013.

Presentations

Evans J, ‘The 1881 Inquiry: questions of justice and collaborative approaches’, for Odette Kelada, Coordinator of Activism, Selves and Histories, Indigenous Studies (Honours), School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, 4 March 2013

Evans J (with Greg Fryer, actor, Coranderrk: We Will Show The Country), ‘Understanding the 1881 Coranderrk Inquiry through the use of verbatim theatre’, for Odette Kelada, Coordinator of Historicising the Colonial Past, Indigenous Studies (3rd yr), School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, 15 May 2013

Evans J, ‘The Minutes of Evidence project: Promoting new and collaborative ways of understanding Australia’s past and engaging with structural justice’, for Siobhan Birch, Coordinator of Arts Faculty Enrichment program for Indigenous cadets, University of Melbourne, October 2013

Evans J (with Erin Birch, Manager Economics & Policy, PricewaterhouseCoopers), ‘New Ways of Understanding and Engaging with Victoria’s Past’, Professional Certificate in History Education, School of Education, University of Melbourne, 17 October 2013

Evans, J, ‘New Ways of Understanding and Engaging with Victoria’s Past’, DEECD Induction Day for teachers in trial schools and curriculum writers (Social Education Victoria), Worawa Aboriginal College, Healesville, 7 November 2013

Evans J, Q & A panel following education pilot of Coranderrk, Healesville Community Arts Centre, two presentations, 15 August 2013

Evans J, Q & A panel following education pilot of Coranderrk, Open Stage, University of Melbourne, 16 August 2013

McMillan M, What makes us Black? Leadership and Identity: Is this the “struggle” of our generation? Keynote Address; LeadershipPlus Forum; Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre, Canberra, 27 November 2012

McMillan M, Indigenous Right in Health – A Changing Landscape, Panelist with Dr Mark Wenitong and Riripeti Haretuka, Indigenous Allied Health Australia - National Conference, Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane, 23 November 2012

McMillan, M, How do we form our Indigenous identity? Keynote Dinner Speaker, Indigenous Allied Health Australia - National Conference, Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane, 22 November 2012 

McMillan, M, Changing the Conversation—Reclaiming Indigenous Government, Presenter of research findings, Native Title Representative Bodies/Native Title Service Providers Chief Executive Officers and Senior Professional Officers’ Forum, Melbourne, 26 September 2012

McMillan M, Sesame Street once asked: Which one of these things looks just like the other?: Indigenous Nation Building and Self-Determination as understood by Australia's Indigenous Nations, Speaker, Symposium on Australia’s Implementation of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University, Melbourne, 21 September 2012

McMillan M, The 5th Anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Speaker, Australian Government Solicitor Reconciliation Working Group Network Event, Melbourne, 13 September 2012

McMillan M, Indigenous Recognition in the Australian Constitution, Panelist on Q & A session with Melissa Castan, Ian Hamm, Peter Seidel. Constitutional Recognition: The True Path to Reconciliation - Panel discussion and Law Institute of Victoria Reconciliation Action Plan Launch, Melbourne, 4 September 2012 

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