2024 Nulungu Reconciliation Lecture
Ngaji gurrjin, The Nulungu Research Institute invites you to Healthy Country: Re-writing the book on Australia presented by Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher followed by a performance by artist Naomi Pigram. Date: Thursday 29 August 2024 This is a community driven, free event for everyone to attend.
Time: 6:00pm AWST (refreshments will be served at 5:30pm)
Venue: Graduation Square, 88 Guy Street, Broome
Please RSVP by Friday 23 August to reserve your seat.
Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher
Acknowledgement of Country
The University of Notre Dame Australia is proud to acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of this land upon which our University sits. The University acknowledges that the Fremantle Campus is located on Wadjuk Country, the Broome Campus on Yawuru Country and the Sydney Campus on Gadigal Country.
Meet your presenter
Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher is a Wiradjuri man and a Geographer. Michael’s research focuses on understanding the physical and social drivers of past landscape change across the Southern Hemisphere using the information stored in wetland sediments and tree rings. Michael’s drive is to develop a deeper understanding of how the world around us operates. He is particularly focused on how our long-term relationship with Country influences who we are, as well as influencing the environments in which we live. Michael is a deputy director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, and the Associate Dean (Indigenous) in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne.
Nulungu Research Institute
Nulungu Research Institute is a Kimberley-based organisation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, each with extensive practical and theoretical knowledge.
Located in Broome, Nulungu provides an Indigenous research and academic focus for the entire University – including the Notre Dame Fremantle and Sydney Campuses – and operates at local, regional, national and international levels.
The Nulungu Way
The Nulungu Way is based on relationships of trust, openness, respect and recognition of Indigenous rights, values, culture and governance and upholding values of social justice.
Contact us
If you have any questions about the Reconciliation Lecture or Nulungu Research Institute, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Email: nulungu@nd.edu.auPhone: +61 (8) 9192 0670