ADI Publications and events

A/Prof Melinda Hinkson was featured in the next installment of ADI Insights, ‘Drawing the Warlpiri history‘, looking at Warlpiri peoples’ history of displacement throughout the 20th century.

A/Prof Maurizio Meloni has presented his paper “Impressionable Bodies: the politics and archaeology of biological plasticity” (in absentia*) at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Conference in Oslo, Norway, 7-9 July 2019

*read by a colleague of mine as I could not attend the meeting in person.

Dr Matteo Vergani presented at the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) on Counter and Alternative Narratives on 24/25 June. He was invited by DFAT and Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Among the attendees: representatives of over 15 governments (including Australia, US, Indonesia), EU and UN representatives, and other civil society organisations (including Hedayah and others).

During 8-11 July 2019, Dr Zahid Ahmed was invited to participate in the ‘Regional Capacity Building Workshop on the Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education (PVE-E) in South Asia’ held in Colobo by the United Nations Development Program, The Commonwealth and Hedayah. While in Sri Lanka, he was also invited by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (Colombo) to deliver a talk on ‘Extremism in South Asia’ on 9 July 2019.

From 28 May – 4 June, Dr Daniella Trimboli attended the Transregional Academy at UC Berkeley, USA on “Histories of Migrant Knowledges in and Across the Transpacific: Agencies, Scales, Translations”, funded by the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Foundation, Germany. While here, she workshopped her recent research on diasporic intimacy and digital storytelling, which will be integrated into her upcoming book Mediating Multiculturalism: Digital Storytelling and The Everyday Ethnic (working title, Anthem Press).