Claiming Belonging: Migrant Solidarities through Arts and Media

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This webinar is the seventh in the Australian Centre's 2024 Critical Public Conversations series.

The Australian Centre

The Australian Centre events showcase world-leading research that foster a critical examination of Australian society, culture and history, with an interdisciplinary focus on Indigenous settler relations, settler colonialism and its institutions.

Join Scientia Associate Professor Sukhmani Khorana as she explores how 'new second generation' migrants are forging solidarities with First Nations through Arts and Media.ABOUTIn Australia, young second-generation migrants are claiming belonging and forging solidarity differently. Participation in the digitised, global nature of youth cultures now offers possibilities and challenges for the kinds of aspirations this new second generation has in their immediate contexts. Shaping the steps they are willing to take to stake their claim, rather than waiting to be granted permission.This webinar examines case studies of several second generation-migrant led Australian initiatives in the Arts and Media, paying particular attention to their campaigns for Indigenous and migrant visibility in the mainstream - including during the ‘Voice to Parliament’ Referendum in 2023. Through these examples, it highlights a kind of transversal solidarity that decentres whiteness and uses a range of collaborative tools to work with shared struggles as well as different histories.PRESENTERSSukhmani Khorana is a Scientia Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales (Australia). She is the external co-lead of the ‘Migration, Im/mobility and Belonging’ research theme at Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney. She was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the journal, ‘Food, Culture and Society’ in 2023.Sukhmani has published extensively on media diversity, food in multicultural contexts, and the politics of empathy and belonging. She is the author of Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency (2023) and The Tastes and Politics of Inter-Cultural Food in Australia (2018). She has a forthcoming co-authored book, Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History (2025).Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@markusspiske?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" title="https://unsplash.com/@markusspiske?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Markus Spiske</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-sticker-on-a-pole-on-a-city-street-rAOD3l6NqIg?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" title="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-sticker-on-a-pole-on-a-city-street-rAOD3l6NqIg?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Unsplash</a>ACCESSIBILITYIf you have any support requirements in order to participate fully, please let us know via aust-centre@unimelb.edu.au.TIME ZONETo check the date and time against your time zone, click this link and enter your city: <a href="https://time.is/compare/" title="https://time.is/compare/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://time.is/compare/</a>KEEP IN TOUCHConnect with our work by <a href="https://artsunimelb.formstack.com/forms/the_australian_centre_subscribe" title="https://artsunimelb.formstack.com/forms/the_australian_centre_subscribe" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">subscribing </a>to our monthly newsletter.THE SERIESUP NEXT: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/competing-projects-of-settler-nationalism-the-voice-to-parliament-tickets-1014445763587?aff=oddtdtcreator" title="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/competing-projects-of-settler-nationalism-the-voice-to-parliament-tickets-1014445763587?aff=oddtdtcreator">Competing Projects of Settler Nationalism: The Voice To Parliament</a> on Wednesday 9 October.Sovereignty and Solidarity: Redefining Belonging in So-Called AustraliaIn 2024, the Australian Centre’s Critical Public Conversations series will explore questions of belonging, borders, and place. We investigate how Australia’s founding as a settler colony constrains capacities to welcome refugees to these shores and highlight moments of transnational solidarity that bypass the settler order. We are guided by theorists, activists, and artists exploring the intersections and incommensurabilities between Indigenous, migrant, and other racialised communities’ politics and lived experiences. This series will go beyond settler binaries, boundaries, and borders, to explore the ways more humane international, domestic, and indeed interpersonal relations are inextricably bound to justice for First Nations.ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRYThe Australian Centre is located at the University of Melbourne, Parkville campus, on unceded Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung land. We acknowledge Country and the people belonging to Country, the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Traditional Owners, and we value our continuing relationship with you and your on-going care for Country. We thank the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Cultural Heritage Corporation for your generous and ongoing contributions to the Australian Centre.We also acknowledge that the University of Melbourne has campuses on Country of other First Nation groups, and we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Parkville, Southbank, Werribee and Burnley campuses, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong/Boon Wurrung peoples; the Yorta Yorta Nations, whose Country the Shepparton and Dookie campuses are located, and the Dja Dja Wurrung Nations, Melbourne University’s Creswick campus location.The Australia Centre acknowledges all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and First Nations peoples whose work, lives and Country intersect with ours. We acknowledge that invasion and colonisation has caused harm that is on-going to First Peoples.

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