Thursday 26 February 7 – 9.30 pm 

Northey Lecture on the theme of Respecting Country

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Connecting with the Faithful Futures’ Respecting Country goal, Associate Professor Laura Rademaker from the Australian National University will present the Northey Lecture and Alison Overeem, proud palawa woman from UAICC Tasmania will provide a poetry reading and Acknowledgement of Country on Thursday 26 February at 7pm at Pilgrim Theological College.

Acknowledgement of Country and poetry reading

by Alison Overeem (proud palawa woman and member of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress, Tasmania)

Providence and possession: how colonial concepts of religion explained away a genocide

by Associate Professor Laura Rademaker (Australian National University)

When settlers came to Australia, many believed in a God-given duty to “fill'” and “subdue the earth” through agriculture and the supposed failure of First Nations people to do this. But the colonists also drew on other religious and biblical ideas to frame themselves in relation to First Nations people.  This lecture will trace the ways that First Nations people’s supposed “forgetting” of true religion was used to excuse the rapid First Nations population decline, and the implications of this history for us today.

All welcome! This lecture will also be part of the Pilgrim unit, Respecting Country: Deep history, the colonies and the church  Contact us to enrol in the unit – study@pilgrim.edu.au

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