Participants from Australia, Aotearoa/NZ, Australia, Canada and the USA are being invited to attend a three-day gathering/symposium comprising keynote with respondent, film screening, panel discussions by, from and with international Indigenous critical thinkers and creative-led researchers: academics, creative practitioners, collection stewards, curators, educators, researchers and scholars.

This symposium will gather together international First Nations/Indigenous cultural advocates to critically analyze our positionalities and relationalities within our respective un/settler-colonial nation-states and on inter/intra/national homelands, considering work over the last four decades and what is required to strengthen our collective Ancestral Futures.

Ancestral Futures, Critical Indigenous Studies, Creative-led Research, Performative Collaborative Autoethnography, Relationality and Storywork are some of the methodologies and theories that will frame/guide discussion.

The symposium is facilitated by Professor Brenda L Croft (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra Peoples, Northern Territory, Australia; Anglo-Australian/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish heritage), 2024 Gough Whitlam & Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, with support from the Harvard University Australian Studies Committee, the Departments of History of Art & Architecture; Art, Film & Visual Studies, Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Creative Australia.