Global Encounters Seminar Series is now available online
Since 2021, the Global Encounters Project held regular online symposiums featuring a wide range of leading Australian and international scholars. Our back catalogue of 44 seminars is now available online.
The monthly seminars and special symposium produced by the Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples project features presentations and discussions across a range of disciplines, including Indigenous studies, history, archaeology, linguistics, cultural preservation, film, performance, popular culture and more.
The seminars and symposium recordings are now available through our Global Encounters YouTube channel
A detailed Guide to the recordings is also available for download as a PDF through Monash's Bridges research repository.
2021
Shino Konishi - French Encounters in New Holland, 1801-1826 18 February 2021
Ian J. McNiven - Canoe highways: 3000 years of interactions between Aboriginal Australians and New Guinea Melanesians 18 March 2021
Alison Bashford - World History and the Tasman Sea 20 May 2021
Alistair Paterson - Voyages to Kaju Jawi: Asian expeditions to Napier Broome Bay, northern Australia, in recent centuries 22 June 2021
Horst Liebner - From Makassar to Marege: Trepang Fishery Encounters, Past and Present 26 August 2021
Wendy van Duivenvoorde - Expedition 1705: The earliest record of substantial culture contact between Indigenous Australians and the VOC 16 September 2021
Drew Pettifer - 'A Sorrowful Act': The Wreck of the Zeewijk project 14 October 2021
Keith Camacho & Kyle Mays – Blackness, Indigeneity, & Settler Colonialism in the Americas & Oceania 6 December 2021
Priscilla Wehi & Billy van Uitregt – Re-Thinking Human Relationships with Antarctica 6 December 2021
Matthew Spriggs – Marking Captain Cook’s Mapping & Naming of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) in 1774 6 December 2021
Global Encounters Team – When the Monsoon Winds Arrive: Australian Encounters with the North 7 December 2021
Hilmar Farid – Did the Spice Routes Connect Australia to Indonesia and Beyond? 7 December 2021
Ian J. McNiven – Coral Sea Connections between Aboriginal Australians & New Guinea Melanesians 7 December 2021
Shona Coyne & Tiffany Shellam – Fish Encounters & Entangled Knowledges on Menang Country 8 December 2021
Charne Lavery & Jauquelyne Kosgei – Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in English 8 December 2021
Himanshu Prabha Ray – Of Pearls & Chanks: Fishing & Sailing Communities in the Eastern Indian Ocean 8 December 2021
2022
Nicholas Evans - Mirror or compass? Sleuthing the histories of Makassan words in Northern Australia 25 March 2022
John Bradley - Relationships between the Trepang Fishermen from Makassar and the Yanyuwa People 14 April 2022
Matt Poll - 'Shaped by the Sea' at the National Maritime Museum 19 May 2022
Sophie Couchman - Tracing the myth that the Chinese ‘discovered’ Australia 16 June 2022
Michael Rowland - Encountering the east coast of Australia 21 July 2022
Katherine Parker - Strait or Round: Entering the Pacific via Southern Patagonia, 1670-1770 18 August 2022
Kristie Flannery - Maritime Violence and Colonial Rule in the Spanish Pacific World 17 November 2022
2023
Aileen Moreton-Robinson - Blackness and Indigeneity: Historical Relationalities 20 April 2023
Dedi Supriadi Adhuri -Three Centuries of the Shared Trepang Heritage of Indonesia and Australia: Perspectives from the Field 18 May 2023
Nonja Peters - The Christian Slaves of Depok: A Colonial Tale Unravels 20 July 2023
Mark van de Logt - They Thought This Man Was From The Heavens: Early Encounters with Europeans in Arikara Oral Traditions 17 August 2023
Jane Lydon - A Very Motley Character: Encounters at Port Essington, 1839-45 19 October 2023
Annie Clarke - Inland Seas: Maritime Imagery in the Central Plateau of Groote Eylandt 16 November 2023
2024
Chris Urwin - The story so far: Archaeological chronologies for First Nations encounters with ‘Makassan’ voyagers in northern Australia 26 March 2024
Daozhi Xu - Aboriginal Australians through Chinese Eyes, 1842-1937 18 April 2024
Stephanie Mawson - Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines 16 May 2024
Antoinette Schapper - Using Linguistics to Expand Histories of Interaction between Indigenous Australians 22 August 2024
Priyambudi Sulistiyanto - Makassar in 2024: Peoples, Places and Stories 17 October 2024
Tristan Mostert - The Regional Dynamics of the 17th Century Spice Wars in Maluku 21 November 2024
2025
Will McCallum - Encounters Onscreen: Binding Makassar to Marege’ in Waŋgany Mala 20 March 2025
Tom Murray - Trading Stories: Global Encounters, Trade, and Cultural Exchange 22 May 2025
Lynette Russell, David Haworth & Leonie Stevens - Alien Encounters and Indigenous Futurisms in Sci-Fi Film and TV 19 June 2025
Alex Burchmore - Out of the Melting Pot, into the Garden? Aboriginal-Chinese-Australian Artistic Encounters 18 September 2025
2026
Rohan Howitt - An Antarctic Iceberg and World History in the 1850s 19 February 2026
Anja Schwarz - Tupaia’s Map of Oceania 3 March 2026
Natali Pearson - Maritime Encounters: The Belitung Shipwreck and its Many Afterlives 19 March 2026
Leonie Stevens - Looking Out, Looking In: A Coastal Encounters Reader 23 April 2026
Ian McNiven - BOOK LAUNCH – Ian J. McNiven’s Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals 28 May 2026
Lynette Russell - Global Encounters & First Nations Peoples: Observations, Reflections and Achievements across 1000 Years of Australian History 18 June 2026