Franca Tamisari
Franca Tamisari, coordinator of the MA in 'Cultural Anthropology Ethnology and Anthropological Linguistics' (ACEL) in the Dept. of Humanities, was granted an MA and PhD in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1994 and has carried out research in Northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia from 1990.
More recently she also carried out research in North Queensland, and in the Lagoon of Venice. Her main research areas include: Australian Indigenous cosmologies and onto-epistemologies; the anthropology of art and performance (with a focus on the political and aesthetic dimension of ritual and on dance and performative practices in local and intercultural contexts); bicultural education (development and integration of Indigenous pedagogy in compulsory schooling); the repatriation of Indigenous cultural heritage; anthropology of tourism; history of colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial relations in Australia; methodologies of the anthropological encounter (politics of representation, personal acquaintance). Recently, she started an ethnographic research on the ecological knowledge of fishermen and hunters in the Venice Lagoon.
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO FAHA
Clarence Slockee
Clarence Slockee, Founding Director of Jiwah, is a Bundjalung Aboriginal man, environmentalist, and educator. He works with design partners and specialists to embed traditional knowledge and cultural learning into projects.
Clarence shares culture globally through performance and art, connecting people with plants and restoring natural systems using First Nations design principles.
Prof. Emily Mcdaniel
Emily McDaniel is a Wiradjuri curator, creative practitioner and a Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture, UTS. She consults on curatorship, cultural narratives, learning and interpretation for cultural institutions, public domain, and the built environment.
Her practice applies Country-centred curatorial methodologies in collaboration with First Nations communities, cultural and creative practitioners, architects, and designers to story and truth-tell. She is recognised for her influential curatorial methodologies which place emphasis on expansive cultural practice, encompassing visual art, design, storytelling, language, performance, Indigenous knowledges, cultural governance, and nation building methodologies.