In this seminar Dr. Lara Daley will share her work engaging with place and time as Country: an Aboriginal English word for the human and more-than-human beings and agencies that co-become as place and as time/s. Country is deeply relational and includes people, land, waters, sky, rocks, animals, plants, memories, dreams, stories, ancestors and so much more.

The presentation will reflect on time as multiple, non-linear, active, and made through and as relationships. Drawing on urban activism in Meanjin (Brisbane, Australia), the presentation will discuss how cities in Australia are both rich and lived, multitemporal Indigenous places/spaces and sites of ongoing Indigenous dispossession.

Lara Daley is a Research Fellow in the discipline of geography and environmental studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Lara's research attends to human and more-than-human connections and protocols, the urban as Country, and so-called 'outer' space as already known, cared for, and inhabited through Indigenous ontologies and systems of governance.