In this seminar Dr. Lara Daley will share some of their work engaging with place and time as Country. Country is an Aboriginal English word for the human and more-than-human beings and agencies that co-become as place and as time/s. Country is deeply relational and includes people, land, waters, sky, rocks, animals, plants, memories, dreams, stories, ancestors and so much more.

The presentation will reflect on time as multiple, non-linear, active, and made through and as relationships. Drawing on urban activism in Meanjin (Brisbane, Australia), the presentation will discuss how cities in Australia are both rich and lived, multitemporal Indigenous places/spaces and sites of ongoing Indigenous dispossession. This raises important questions for doing urban politics on stolen land. Join us for a light lunch after the event. 

Lara Daley is a Research Fellow in the discipline of geography and environmental studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Lara's research is grounded in trying to live their responsibilities as a white, non-Indigenous person on unceded Aboriginal lands. Their research takes place through intercultural, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, human and more-than-human research collectives on Gumbaynggirr Country (mid north coast NSW) and in North East Arnhem Land. Led by Aboriginal Elders and Custodians, Lara's research attends to human and more-than-human connections and protocols, the urban as Country, and so-called 'outer' space as already known, cared for, and inhabited through Indigenous ontologies and systems of governance.