Jilda Andrews
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Dr Jilda Andrews is a Yuwaalaraay woman, cultural practitioner and researcher based at the Australian National University in Canberra. Her work investigates the cultural ecologies surrounding objects in museum collections. By drawing from processes of Country and culture, Jilda pushes the concept of custodianship from one intent on the preservation of objects, to one that is active in maintaining connections between objects and the dynamic systems that produce them.
Rosalyn Brenda Boko
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Rosalyn is a family story-keeper and storyteller who speaks Luritja, Pitjantjatjara, Yankuntjatjara, Western Arrarnta and other central desert languages. She grew up at Iwupataka (Jay Creek) and now lives in Yarrenyty Arltere (Larapinta Valley) with her husband, sons, and her papas (dogs) Gypsy, Lila, Princess, Blade, Brownie, Blacky, Crow, and another one with a tricky name. With her father David Jangala Boko, Rosalyn is a founding member of Ngunytjuku Mamaku Tjukurpa Kanyini Wanka (Keeping Mother’s and Father’s Stories Alive) group, finding and leading new ways to carry on her artist mother Margaret Nampitjinpa Boko’s family story work and her father’s memories using paintings, audio recordings, video and other media.
Meredith Balanydjarrk
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I am Meredith Balanydjarrk. I’m a proud Dhal’wangu woman and I’ve been working with Miyarrka Media for 15 years now. I am one of the authors of our award-winning book Phone & Spear: A Yuṯa Anthropology (2019).
Warren Balpatji
I’m Warren Balpatji and I love travelling around. They call me Warren G. I’m the sound recordist for Miyarrka Media and I also drive the team, up and down, up and down, doing shopping and filling up the fuel.
Enrique Bernardou
Enrique Bernardou is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Paraguay.
Victoria Baskin Coffey
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Victoria Baskin Coffey (They/Them) is a visual anthropologist and media producer with an enduring interest in the ways that images make the world. They are the Visual Editor of Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene (2021) and co-curated exhibitions of Feral Atlas at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial and the Istanbul Biennial in 2019. In 2021 Victoria joined the intercultural and intergenerational collective, Miyarrka Media, working on a new project called Rangipuy, coming from the beach. Victoria is also currently completing a co-creative PhD project with Shanthi Muniswamy, an artist, poet and a trans-woman living in Bengaluru. Together they examine the digital-visual image practices among transgender, gender nonbinary, and gender variant communities of Southern India.
David Bueno
David Bueno is a graphic designer based in Paraguay.
CómicsClub
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CómicsClub is a comics studio based in Asunción, Paraguay with contributing partnerships in Australia. The studio has produced Paraguay’s highest grossing graphic novel (Forecasts, 2023) as well as shorter form web and print comics. You can find some of their original illustrations on Instagram at @ebernardou and @davidbuevil.
Ross Crates
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Ross Crates is a member of the Difficult Bird Research Group at the Australian National University. He has broad interests in ecology, evolution and conservation, with a focus on birds. He studied the ecology and conservation of the critically endangered regent honeyeater for his PhD, and is a keen science communicator, working closely with schools and interest groups.
Curatorium Collective
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Curatorium is a collective of anthropologists, artists, activists, makers and thinkers. Inspired by our own unruly collective connections, we host online gatherings and promote new forms of academic publishing in an attempt to create the space for those who work differently to find one another. Curatorium has been established to support media/arts research in anthropology throughout Australia and to generate spaces for making, sharing and talking differently about research creation in partnership with the Australian Anthropological Society and the Centre for Creative Futures, Charles Darwin University. Curatorium Editorial Collective are Victoria Baskin Coffey, Jennifer Deger, Sebastian J. Lowe and Lisa Stefanoff.
Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
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Gabriel Dattatreyan is an ethnographer, filmmaker, and visual artist. His written and creative works attend to processes of racialisation, performances of masculinity, and Afro-Asian interactions and their histories in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is the author of two books, The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi, India (2020) and Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the age of Social Media (together with Sahana Udupa, 2023). Gabriel’s films have screened in international festivals, including the Tasveer International Film Festival, Ethnografilm Paris, The International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), and the German International Ethnographic Film Festival. He has exhibited his video and sound installations in various venues, including Khoj Arts (Delhi), the Slought Foundation (Philadelphia), and Bow Arts (London). He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, New York University, having previously taught visual anthropology for several years at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Jennifer Deger
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Jennifer Deger is co-director of the Centre for Creative Futures and Professor of Digital Humanities at Charles Darwin University. Her work moves through the intertidal zones of anthropology, art, and environmental humanities. It finds form in film, digital media, experimental ethnographic writing, and curation. For the past 25 years Jennifer has worked on co-creative media projects under Yolŋu leadership, collaborations that continue to inform and energise her commitments to social research and its potentially transformative reach. Jennifer was a founding member of Miyarrka Media with the late Mr P. G. Wunungmurra. Jennifer is also co-curator of Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene (www.feralatlas.org); and co-author of Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene (2024) with Anna L. Tsing, Alder K. Saxena and Feifei Zhou.
Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
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Zeynep Devrim Gürsel is a media anthropologist and Associate Professor in the department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She is the author of Image Brokers: Visualizing World News in the Age of Digital Circulation (2016), an ethnography of the international photojournalism industry in the 21st c. She is also the director of Coffee Futures, an award-winning ethnographic film that explores contemporary Turkish politics through the prism of the everyday practice of coffee fortune telling. More recently she has been researching photography as a tool of governmentality in the late Ottoman period. Her current projects investigate photography as an integral part of the global surveillance regime policing mobility and nationality.
Thom van Dooren
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Thom van Dooren, FAHA, is a field philosopher and writer. He is Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (2014), The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (2019), and A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions (2022).
Steven Feld
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Steven Feld is a sound and image artist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, USA. His work of the last 50 years on acoustemology in Papua New Guinea, Europe, and West Africa is published equally in sound, image, and text and posted at stevenfeld.net.
Daniel Fisher
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Daniel Fisher is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of UC Berkeley’s Media Studies Program and the anthropology department’s Experimental Ethnography Laboratory. He is author of The Voice and its Doubles (2016) and is currently completing a second monograph concerned with Indigenous urbanism and environmental infrastructure in northern Australia.
Lily George
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Ko Mahuhu-ki-te-Rangi te waka
(Mahuhu-ki-te-Rangi is our sacred canoe)
Ko Kapowai te maunga
(Kapowai is our sacred mountain)
Ko Waikare te awa
(Waikare is our sacred river)
Ko Waikare te tūrangawaewae
(Waikare is our place of belonging)
Ko Te Kapotai te hapū
(Te Kapotai is our tribe)
Ko Ngāpuhi te iwi
(Ngāpuhi is our tribal confederation)
Ko Lily George taku ingoa
(Lily George is my name).
Lily has 23 years research experience working primarily with Māori communities and on issues of importance to Māori. This includes Treaty claims research for Te Taoū (Wai 762), a post-doctoral project on pathways to wellbeing for Māori women with experiences of incarceration, and three projects over 5 years on issues relating to rangatahi (youth) suicide. She has supported more than 100 Māori students in postgraduate research. Lily has expertise in Indigenous and Māori research ethics and has served on Massey University’s Human Ethics Committee and the NZ Ethics Committee, and was on the Board of the Aotearoa Research Ethics Trust which oversees the NZEC. After 22 years at Massey University and 16 months at the Western Institute of Technology Taranaki in New Plymouth, Lily has been based in her home region of Tai Tokerau (Northland) since 2018 and is heavily involved in tribal development for Te Kapotai. She works as a Policy Analyst for Te Tai Mahere/Intelligence Team for Ngā Tai Ora/Public Health Northland, and is an Adjunct Research Fellow with Victoria University of Wellington. Lily is dedicated to Te Ao Māori (the Māori world), has a deep and working knowledge of the issues we face, and believes the solutions for those issues are to be found in our communities and in our traditional knowledges.
(Mahuhu-ki-te-Rangi is our sacred canoe)
Ko Kapowai te maunga
(Kapowai is our sacred mountain)
Ko Waikare te awa
(Waikare is our sacred river)
Ko Waikare te tūrangawaewae
(Waikare is our place of belonging)
Ko Te Kapotai te hapū
(Te Kapotai is our tribe)
Ko Ngāpuhi te iwi
(Ngāpuhi is our tribal confederation)
Ko Lily George taku ingoa
(Lily George is my name).
Lily has 23 years research experience working primarily with Māori communities and on issues of importance to Māori. This includes Treaty claims research for Te Taoū (Wai 762), a post-doctoral project on pathways to wellbeing for Māori women with experiences of incarceration, and three projects over 5 years on issues relating to rangatahi (youth) suicide. She has supported more than 100 Māori students in postgraduate research. Lily has expertise in Indigenous and Māori research ethics and has served on Massey University’s Human Ethics Committee and the NZ Ethics Committee, and was on the Board of the Aotearoa Research Ethics Trust which oversees the NZEC. After 22 years at Massey University and 16 months at the Western Institute of Technology Taranaki in New Plymouth, Lily has been based in her home region of Tai Tokerau (Northland) since 2018 and is heavily involved in tribal development for Te Kapotai. She works as a Policy Analyst for Te Tai Mahere/Intelligence Team for Ngā Tai Ora/Public Health Northland, and is an Adjunct Research Fellow with Victoria University of Wellington. Lily is dedicated to Te Ao Māori (the Māori world), has a deep and working knowledge of the issues we face, and believes the solutions for those issues are to be found in our communities and in our traditional knowledges.
Kenneth m. George
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Ken is Professor of Anthropology Emeritus in the
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, having served previously at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard University, and as Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies (2005-2008). Ken’s ethnographic and art historical research in Asia began with a decade of work on the cultural politics of ritual violence in highland Sulawesi, Indonesia. He subsequently conducted a long-term collaborative project on contemporary Islamic art and art publics across Southeast Asia. His research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Ken’s books include the prize-winning Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth Century Headhunting Ritual (1996); Spirited Politics: Religion and Public Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia (2005, co-editor); and Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld (2010). His current research with Kirin Narayan has been supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Award and explores the intermingling of religion and technology in Hindu and Buddhist communities in South Asia and beyond.
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, having served previously at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard University, and as Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies (2005-2008). Ken’s ethnographic and art historical research in Asia began with a decade of work on the cultural politics of ritual violence in highland Sulawesi, Indonesia. He subsequently conducted a long-term collaborative project on contemporary Islamic art and art publics across Southeast Asia. His research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Ken’s books include the prize-winning Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth Century Headhunting Ritual (1996); Spirited Politics: Religion and Public Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia (2005, co-editor); and Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld (2010). His current research with Kirin Narayan has been supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Award and explores the intermingling of religion and technology in Hindu and Buddhist communities in South Asia and beyond.
Enid Guruŋulmiwuy
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I am Enid Guruŋulmiwuy and I belong to Yalakun like my father,
Mr P. G. Wunungmurra. All my life I’ve been learning from him, working closely together. We are all so proud of his work and the vision he shared with the world.
Mr P. G. Wunungmurra. All my life I’ve been learning from him, working closely together. We are all so proud of his work and the vision he shared with the world.
Melinda Hinkson
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Melinda Hinkson is an independent writer and social researcher with wide ranging interests in people-place relationships. As an anthropologist she has worked extensively with Warlpiri people of the Central Desert and since 2022 with farmers and fruit growers of the Millewa-Mallee region of north-western Victoria. She is author of See How We Roll: Enduring Exile Between Desert and Urban Australia (Duke University Press, 2021) and Remembering the Future: Warlpiri Life Through the Prism of Drawing (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2025). She has edited books on the life work of anthropologist WEH Stanner, the Northern Territory Intervention, and identity in the digital age. For two decades Melinda taught and researched anthropology and visual culture at the Australian National University (2001-15) and Deakin University (2015-22). From 2014 to 2020 she was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She directed the Institute of Postcolonial Studies between 2019 and 2023. Melinda is currently an adjunct associate professor with the Climate Change Adaptation Lab, La Trobe University, and lives
on a farm in the Millewa.
on a farm in the Millewa.
Caleb Kingston
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Caleb Kingston works as a designer in the tech space, having spent the early years of his design career in the world of startups—developing expertise across visual, UI, and product design. His strengths lie in moving across different forms and disciplines with an eye to conceptual clarity and elegant resolution. Joining the Feral Atlas team for design of exhibitions at the Istanbul Biennale and Sharjah Architecture Triennial in 2019, has been favourite brief so far, consisting of environmental, print, and furniture design. He is currently designing and building in the digital realm for Curatorium collective and Miyarrka Media.
Jaramali Kulka
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Jarramali Kulka is a Kuku Yalanji-Nyungkul man who has lived and hunted his country for most of his life. He has turned his hand and talents towards many different roles in his community including Indigenous ranger, fisherman, horticulturalist, rugby captain and painter. Jarramali enjoys being in the bush, hunting and walking with adventurous kids, cousin brothers, elders and friends.
Anthony Lovenheim Irwin
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Anthony Lovenheim Irwin is a scholar of Asian religions who thinks, talks, teaches, and writes about the social and ethical resonance of crafting, building, and construction. Dealing primarily with Buddhism in Thailand, his work focuses on the importance of craftspeople as central figures in the transmission and definition of religious traditions and communities. Following the craftspeople, artists, monks, nuns, and villagers he has been lucky enough to work with in northern Thailand, he pays special attention to the nonhuman and miraculous powers that participate in acts of religious building and crafting. His research has received funding from The Association for Asian Studies, The Society of the Humanities at Cornell University, the American Council of Learned Societies, The US Fulbright Program, and the Australian Research Council. He has taught at Cornell University, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, The University of Michigan, and Siena College.
Sebastian J. Lowe
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Sebastian J. Lowe (Tangata Tiriti) is an anthropologist, musician and filmmaker from Aotearoa New Zealand. He is currently completing a PhD in Society and Culture at James Cook University, Australia, and Aarhus University, Denmark. Sebastian’s work entangles histories and cultures to give rise to new ideas about how we might live in a crumbling world. Sebastian is a also a member of Te Roopu Rapu i te Tika (The Aotearoa Research Ethics Committee) and a research associate at Charles Darwin University, Australia.
Miyarrka Media
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Miyarrka Media is an intergenerational and intercultural arts collective working on Yolŋu lands in northern Australia. Guided for many years by the late Mr P. G. Wunungmurra they use digital media to explore issues of shared concern. Their recent book Phone & Spear: A Yuṯa Anthropology (2019) won the Gregory Bateson award. The team for this project includes Wunungmurra’s daughters Enid Guruŋulmiwuy, and Meredith Balanydjarrk, his son-in-law Warren Balpatji, long-time collaborator Jennifer Deger and visual anthropologist Victoria Baskin Coffey. Wunungmurra and Deger co-directed the Centre for Creative Futures at Charles Darwin University.
Ngunytjuku Mamaku Tjukurpa Kanyini Wanka
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Ngunytjuku Mamaku Tjukurpa Kanyini Wanka (Keeping Father’s and Mother’s Stories Alive) is a family memory and storytelling group based in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), directed by Rosalyn Boko. The group is dedicated to progressing the family storytelling and memory-holding work started by Rosalyn’s parents David Jangala Boko and Margaret Nampitjinpa Boko, with Lisa Stefanoff. In 2024 the group completed its first animated short film, Winimaku Ara Papa Wiimatjaraku (2024) (see this volume).
Margaret (Margie) Nampitjinpa Boko
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Margaret was a Western Arrarnta Warlpiri Pintupi woman who usually spoke Luritja language with her family. She grew up at Papunya, then lived, worked, met her husband David Jangala Boko and raised their children at Iwupataka (Jay Creek reserve) west of Mparntwe (Alice Springs). When that community was shut down, the family moved to town and lived for many years at Inarlenge (Little Sisters) town camp where she and David also served as executive members of its council and as respected elders of the Lutheran Church. Over a ten-year career at Tangentyere Artists, Margaret painted hundreds of vividly coloured—and widely exhibited and collected—story paintings on canvas and found objects, to hold family and community memories. In her daughter Rosalyn Boko’s words, Margie ‘couldn’t stop telling stories.’ Directed by Rosalyn, the Ngunytjuku Mamaku Tjukurpa Kanyini Wanka (Keeping Mother’s and Father’s Stories Alive) group has brought one of Margie’s story paintings to life in their animated short film Winimaku Ara Papa Wiimatjaraku (2024) (see this volume).
Kirin Narayan
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Kirin Narayan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology and South
Asian Studies in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Her books include a narrative ethnography Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching (1989); a novel, Love, Stars and All That (1997); a dialogic collaboration with a storyteller, Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales (1997); a family memoir, My Family and Other Saints (2007); a book on generating writing, Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov (2012); and an ethnography emerging from long-term fieldwork, Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills (2016). Her current research with Ken George, supported by an ARC Discovery Project Award, explores the intersections of religion, artisanship, narrative, creativity, and technology in India.
Asian Studies in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Her books include a narrative ethnography Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching (1989); a novel, Love, Stars and All That (1997); a dialogic collaboration with a storyteller, Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales (1997); a family memoir, My Family and Other Saints (2007); a book on generating writing, Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov (2012); and an ethnography emerging from long-term fieldwork, Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills (2016). Her current research with Ken George, supported by an ARC Discovery Project Award, explores the intersections of religion, artisanship, narrative, creativity, and technology in India.
Myles Oakey
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Myles Oakey is a PhD candidate in the School of Humanities
at the University of Sydney and a research member of the Sydney Environment Institute. His research is situated within the broad field of the environmental humanities, but emerges at the intersection of environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, philosophical ethology, and extinction studies. His research thesis is focused on the Regent Honeyeater, exploring how an attention to song shapes and is shaped by scientific knowledge, conservation practice, naturalists and others, as well as the significance of attending to song in the context of ecological loss and extinction.
at the University of Sydney and a research member of the Sydney Environment Institute. His research is situated within the broad field of the environmental humanities, but emerges at the intersection of environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, philosophical ethology, and extinction studies. His research thesis is focused on the Regent Honeyeater, exploring how an attention to song shapes and is shaped by scientific knowledge, conservation practice, naturalists and others, as well as the significance of attending to song in the context of ecological loss and extinction.
Timo Rissanen
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Timo Rissanen is an artist and researcher with work ranging from fashion and sustainability to queer materialities and extinction. He has co-authored two books on fashion and sustainability. Rissanen is Associate Professor in Fashion and Textiles in the School of Design, at the University of Technology Sydney.
Zoë Sadokierski
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Zoë Sadokierski is a designer, creative producer and Associate Professor in Visual Communication in the School of Design, University of Technology Sydney. Her research explores design-led approaches to communicating the cultural and ethical dimensions of complex problems such as biodiversity loss, climate change and bioengineering. She has won multiple awards for her book design work, and her artist’s books and prints have been exhibited and collected in galleries and libraries around the world.
Caroline E. Schuster
Caroline E. Schuster is an Associate Professor in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.
Lisa Stefanoff
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Lisa is a writer, researcher, curator, and media/art producer with Macedonian-Anglo immigrant settler heritage who lives with her family and her one papa (dog) Viva in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). For the past two decades she has worked side-by-side with desert artists and media-makers, and in partnership with Aboriginal community-controlled organisations on language, art, regional history and other story projects, on screens, in galleries, on radio and in print. She is a founding member of Curatorium Collective and holds senior research adjunct positions at the CDU Centre for Creative Futures and the UNSW Big Anxiety Research Centre (BARC). Lisa and Rosalyn Boko have worked closely together for a long time to keep the stories in Rosalyn’s mother’s paintings alive for future generations and to progress the work of the Ngunytjuku Mamaku Tjukurpa Kanyini Wanka (Keeping Mother’s and Father’s Stories Alive) group.
Gretchen Stolte
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Dr Stolte is a Nimi’ipuu (Nez Perce) Native American and has degrees in art history and anthropology focusing on the material culture of First Nations peoples both on Turtle Island (North America) and so-called Australia. Dr Stolte’s research areas focus on the relationship between cultural objects and identity making and has published extensively about practice-based research, cultural protocols and the responsibility of western institutions in Indigenous cultural spaces. Dr Stolte is currently the anthropology discipline lead, coordinator of the anthropology major and lecturer at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia while also a practising beadwork artist, weaver and ribbon skirt maker.
Anna L. Tsing
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Anna L. Tsing teaches anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Aarhus University. She is co-curator, with Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou of Feral Atlas: The More than Human Anthropocene (www.feralatlas.org). This same team are co-authors of Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene (2024).
Samuel Widin
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Samuel Widin is a PhD candidate in the Department of History
at the University of Sydney. He has taught in the Environmental Humanities and History at UNSW and the University of Sydney. He is currently teaching an environmental, cultural history of the Great Barrier Reef. Sam’s PhD is focused on the small and declining population of palm cockatoos in the Cape York Peninsula. He collaborates with Thom van Dooren on The Living Archive: Extinction Stories from Oceania.
at the University of Sydney. He has taught in the Environmental Humanities and History at UNSW and the University of Sydney. He is currently teaching an environmental, cultural history of the Great Barrier Reef. Sam’s PhD is focused on the small and declining population of palm cockatoos in the Cape York Peninsula. He collaborates with Thom van Dooren on The Living Archive: Extinction Stories from Oceania.
Citt Williams
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Citt Williams is an international documentary filmmaker, academic and climate scientist. Her produced films have screened at festivals including Cannes and by broadcasters National Geographic, Discovery, Seven Australia, ABCTV, SBSTV, CBC, Al Jazeera and SBS. Working across the entertainment industry globally as well as for various United Nations agencies and intergovernmental bodies, Citt has produced and shot independent documentaries in many remote and socially challenging locations. Citt is comfortable collaborating in diverse stakeholder environments, and has held positions including Executive Producer at Central Australian Media Association (2003-2005), Media Specialist at the United Nations University Media Studio (2008-2013) and strategic Content Director at Screen Queensland (2021). Citt teaches documentary courses in Australia and Japan and holds a Master of Arts in Documentary (AFTRS), a Masters in Climate Science (University of East Anglia), a Master in Internet Social Sciences (University of Oxford) and a PhD in Media and Communications (RMIT). She is an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Centre for Creative Futures at Charles Darwin University.
Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung
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Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung is a Western Cape York-based artist. Tribal affiliation is to Mbaiwum/Trotj, Alngith/Liningithi and Wik Apalich Nations. Fiona’s background is in Performance Theatre, Choreography, Literature and Academic research. She draws from Western Cape epistemology, ontology and axiology to determine her creative vocabulary and modes of expression. Fiona received a PhD from James Cook University in 2021 with a thesis that developed a performative approach to giving voice to voice through the Arnya Songline methodology.
Mr P. G. Wunungmurra
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Mr P. G. Wunungmurra was a Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre for Creative Futures at Charles Darwin University. He brought to these roles a lifelong commitment to the creative potential and social responsibilities of enlivening the past and creating new connections. He approached research as a vital opportunity to craft gifts for future generations, to share life with both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and the environments to which we all belong. A senior member of the Dhaḻwaŋu clan, Mr Wunungmurra was an internationally experienced performer and founding member of the art collective, Miyarrka Media. Mr Wunungmurra has co-directed several films including Manapanmirr, in Christmas Spirit (2012) and Ringtone (2014). He was the lead author of Phone & Spear: A Yuṯa Anthropology which was awarded the Gregory Bateson Book Prize in 2020 by the Society for Cultural Anthropology and an Open Access publication prize in 2021. Until his death he worked and published under a different name, which is, for now, restricted from public use. Mr Wunungmurra belonged to, and cared for, Yalakun, a small outstation close to Gapuwiyak in east Arnhem Land.
