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Yalangbara wins Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History BooK AWARD
(Posted: Oct 2009)
CDU Press publication Yalangbara: Art of the Djang’kawu was announced as joint winner of the 2009 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award at a presentation ceremony on Friday 9 October at Parliament House in Darwin under the auspices of the Northern Territory Library. The award is an annual one presented to the author of a book on an aspect of Northern Territory History published in the previous calendar year.
Of the seven high quality entries in this year’s award, the two shortlisted titles, Yalangbara and an IAD Press title Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists by Vivien Johnson were announced as joint winners in a unanimous decision by the judges. Each winner receives $1000 in prize money.
Wendy Brady, Chair of the Charles Darwin University Press (CDU Press) Editorial Board, was delighted at the announcement, and expressed pride and excitement that CDU Press was able to publish the book. She said the Press felt privileged and honoured to have had the opportunity to be engaged in the project with the Marika family and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT). “The works reproduced in the book really go to the heart of Indigenous culture, history and artistic expression”.
Yalangbara: Art of the Djang’kawu by Banduk Marika and the Rirratjingu clan, and edited by Margie West, was published by CDU Press and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in 2008.
Yalangbara is the first Indigenous art publication to focus upon one significant ancestral site. It has been produced on behalf of members of the Rirratjingu clan to celebrate Yalangbara (Port Bradshaw), the landing site of the Djang’kawu ancestors; the law-givers and progenitors of the people throughout north-east Arnhem Land. Their creative activities are depicted by three generations of talented Marika artists, including Mawalan 1, Mathaman, Milirrpum, Roy, Wandjuk, Banduk, Dhuwarrwarr, Mawalan 2, Jimmy Barrmula and Wanyubi Marika. The accompanying text examines aspects of Yolngu (Aboriginal) aesthetics and material culture, history, myth, land ownership and copyright to show the complex interrelationship of these themes in Yolngu life.
CDU Press is a small academic press based in Darwin, focussing on regionally important themes, particularly Indigenous, southeast Asian and environmental issues. CDU Press encourages Indigenous authors to submit publication proposals.
This is the second CDU Press title to win the Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award, with Empty North: The Japanese Presence and Australian Reactions 1860s-1942, by Pam Oliver having won in 2007.
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) volume to be launched by dean of faculty
(Posted: Aug 2009)
The new CDU Press title GIS Applications for Sustainable Development and Good Governance in Eastern Indonesia and Timor Leste is to be launced by Professor Graham Pegg, the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Health and Science, on Wednesday, 19 August 2009. The launch will take place from 4 pm in the CDU Bookshop, Building Red 1, on CDU's Casuarina Campus.
The volume, edited by Rohan Fisher, Bronwyn Myers, Max Tanam and Vincent Tarus is a unique set of papers describing the application of GIS in a remote/regional and developing country context, with applications ranging from land use to health services.
More information about the book>>
call for submissions for Hot Topics from the Tropics
(posted June 2009)
Hot Topics from the Tropics is an exciting new e-journal published by CDU Press.
CDU Press has released a call for submissions to a new e-journal Hot Topics from the Tropics, with the first issue due to be launched during the CD Symposium in September 2009.
The-journal is aimed at researchers (including research students) working at or in partnership with Charles Darwin University and focuses on issues of importance to the communities of the Northern Territory, northern Australia and Southeast Asia.
Hot Topics from the Tropics welcomes not only traditional text-based articles but also other forms of submission, including slideshows, short video/music clips, etc. It also features book reviews as well as other features, which may include reviews of performances, exhibitions, etc.
Visit Hot Topics from the Tropics>> website for more information about the ejournal, including author and submission guidelines.
Yalangbara: Art of the Djang'kawu - Launch and free public seminar
(Posted: Feb 2009)
The recent CDU Press publication Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu was launched by His Honour Mr Tom Pauling, Administrator of the Northern Territory at Government House on Thursday, 12 March 2009.
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A free public seminar was held on Friday, 13 March 2009 at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
The seminar followed the book launch of 'Yalangbara: art of the Djang’kawu' published by Charles Darwin University Press with the Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory . The seminar explored themes in the publication by leading academics in the field, along with members of the Marika family who also co-produced the book.
The central theme was the artistic, cultural and political significance of one of the most significant ancestral sites in Arnhem Land. Yalangbara, or Port Bradshaw, in northeast Arnhem Land is the place where the Djang’kawu ancestral beings first arrived, instigating the birth of all the Dhuwa moiety clans and the creation of all aspects of their natural and social worlds. As the centre for human and cultural creation, Yalangbara has immense spiritual significance for all Yolngu (Aboriginal) people in this region, especially for its owners the Marika family of the Rirratjingu clan.
The Marikas have created an impressive body of public paintings, carvings, drawings and prints about their homeland since the 1930s. Their rich visual and narrative traditions were also discussed in the seminar along with issues of land tenure and the family’s impressive contribution to the area of land rights, copyright and cross-cultural understanding. The seminar was part of the family’s ongoing interest in promoting the Yolngu perspective to a wider audience.
Venue: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Theatrette
Date: Friday 13th March 2009
Time: 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Bookings essential
89998228, 0408889695
Email: franchesca.cubillo@nt.gov.au
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