{"id":2210,"date":"2025-06-27T15:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/?post_type=events&p=2210"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:20:17","slug":"naidoc-week-talk-kim-scott","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/events\/naidoc-week-talk-kim-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"NAIDOC Week Lunchtime Talk with Kim Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Join us in NAIDOC Week 2025 to hear Professor Kim Scott, Author and John Curtin Distinguished Professor, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University, reading from a selection of his novels, and discussing the relationship between these extracts and the exhibition, \u2018Mamang-miyel-ang Djinang \/\u00a0Seeing with the whale\u2019s eye<\/em><\/a>‘. Mamang-miyel-ang Djinang features illustrations from picture books as a result of Kim\u2019s collaboration with Wirlomin Noongar and Stories Inc<\/a> over some twenty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim Scott <\/strong>is an award-winning Noongar author who has worked extensively in Indigenous education and the arts. Kim\u2019s second novel, Benang<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (1999), won a number of literary awards, including The Miles Franklin, which he won for a second time with That Deadman Dance<\/em> (2010) along with the South-east Asia and Pacific Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prize, the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal and other accolades. His work has been translated and published in China, India, Holland, Japan and France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim was awarded a Centenary Medal, and in 2012 was awarded Western Australian of the Year. He is a member of the West Australian Writers Hall of Fame and in 2022 was declared a State Cultural Treasure. Kim is currently employed as Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Event Details<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday 9 July 2025
12:30pm \u2013 1:30pm
Free event, open to the public<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light refreshments provided<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The JCG Lunchtime Talks is a mid-week series that invites speakers from diverse disciplines to share their research, practices, and perspectives in response to the gallery\u2019s exhibition programming. These informal sessions offer a welcoming, collegial space to explore ideas, spark dialogue, and engage with the themes and questions shaping contemporary visual culture and artistic practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image: Kim Scott, Mettler, 2024. Image by and copyright 2024 Nic Duncan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","event-locations":[5],"class_list":["post-2210","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","event-locations-john-curtin-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-locations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-locations?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}