Celebrating Fifty Years Through Sustainable Digital Return of Research
Rekindling Japanese and Torres Strait Connections (Japan-Australia Research Project)
kuril dhagun, slq
Free event / Main Festival
BWF080
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Duration: 60 minutes
This panel charts an initiative to reimagine an archive of 50-year-old Japanese scholarship about life in the Torres Strait. Through an exciting visual presentation, the panel will discuss digital repatriation, reconnecting people and research materials and the importance of reinterpreting scholarship through a Torres Strait lens. Curated by Samantha Faulkner.
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Samantha Faulkner
Samantha Faulkner is a Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman with family links to Badu and Moa Islands in the Torres Strait and Wuthathi and Yadhaigana peoples, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Sam is a writer, poet and editor whose publications include: Life Blong Ali Drummond: A Life in the Torres Strait, written with her grandfather; Pamle: Torres Strait Islanders in Canberra; and Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia, published by Black Inc, 2024. Her short stories and poetry have been published nationally and internationally and her poetry has been translated to French, Indian and South Korean. She is currently working on her debut poetry collection.
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