Brunel University Anthropology Seminar" Art and Identity in the Australia: Field Notes from the Kimberley"

Description

Northern Australia is well-known for its linguistic diversity, rock art and other archaeologies that extends from the present to at least 50,000 years ago. Rock art is theoretically and ethnographically informed and assumes different identities as inflected by the work of European explorers, administrators, anthropologists, ethologists, and linguists. Crucially, Aboriginal people, increasingly mistrustful of the State, are going beyond partnerships with social scientists, to defining what heritage is to them and how it contributes to their identities in an Australia that remains dominantly ‘colonial’ and in a world of social and environmental crisis, and where Artificial Intelligence further destabilises and extends definitions of rock art and personhood.

Period	3 Feb 2026
Event type	Seminar
Organisers	Brunel University London, The University of Western Australia
Location	Uxbridge, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Local