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Come to an open meeting hosted by the #TransformIPCS Working Group on Thursday the 7th of December at 7:00pm-8:00pm (AEDT). We’ll be talking about the #SaveIPCS campaign and hearing from members about their vision to #transformIPCS :

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

10 months

!!ALERT!! The current Board of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS) is attempting to dissolve & sell the building in North Melbourne behind the backs of over 200 IPCS members!! If you want to #saveipcs and support us to #transformipcs you can sign:

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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THREAD Many members and friends of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS) may not be completely aware of what's been happening at IPCS over the past year. We haven't been public about the details due to a number of concerns, but from now on, we will be posting daily

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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On December 2, 2023 Professor Tony Birch wrote the following letter regarding the Board of the IPCS efforts to close down the Institute -

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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The Board's decision to close down the Institute has compelled the founding director, Phillip Darby to speak out in clarification of his position on the decision, and in favour of our campaign to keep the Institute open.

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Help us keep the Institute going. As active members of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, we have spent years at the Institute cultivating community, growing mutually and bringing life to a space that invited us to engage with questions of the postcolonial.

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Read this feature in NIT- In an email to members on November 20, they said a proposal was being put forward to seek the appointment of four Aboriginal scholar-activists: Prof Gary Foley, A/Prof Crystal McKinnon, Dr Evelyn Araluen, and Natalie Ironfield.

Institute of Postcolonial Studies to shut down amid calls for change from members

The announcement that the Melbourne-based Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS) will be dissolved by the board has been met with disappointment by the organisation's more than 200 members, many...

nit.com.au

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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IPCS member, Dr Laura Rodriguez Castro is a Vice-Chancellor Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education's SEAEE Research Cluster at Southern Cross University. She shares a testimony urging the community of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies to #saveipcs

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Here you can listen to the recording of the two Palestine events held in March, after which member led initiatives were terminated upon the Board's decision to close the building one week after hosting these events.

Palestine and the Culture of Denial - IPCS

Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by many as a manifestation of progressive liberal values. Key to this miraculous act of political...

ipcs.org.au

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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explainers on Twitter @saveipcs & IG @savepostcolonialstudies In March of 2023, following a series of Black-Palestine Solidarity events organised by Palestinian member Tasnim Sammak at IPCS, the Board of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies’ (IPCS): -> Stood down Dr. Carlos

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Unimelb Lecturer, Dr. Sahar Ghumkhor with an analysis of the racialised discourse within the Board's announcement to close down the project -

S Glumcore

@theprimalplot

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As a member of the IPCS I received an email (see below) that described our efforts to involve indigenous & non-white members in disturbing language — “aggression” , “hostility”, “trenchant”. This is not only inaccurate, misleading but racist in its description.

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Join us for the open meeting tonight 7pm via Zoom.

Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

10 months

Come to an open meeting hosted by the #TransformIPCS Working Group on Thursday the 7th of December at 7:00pm-8:00pm (AEDT). We’ll be talking about the #SaveIPCS campaign and hearing from members about their vision to #transformIPCS :

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Sign - "For the past five years, there has only been a single Aboriginal director on the IPCS Board, who resigned earlier this year, and two People of Colour (POC) who have also resigned. This is not a condemnation of individual directors.

Transforming the Institute of Postcolonial Studies into a project that builds anticolonial and...

As members and friends of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS), we write to express the urgent need to transform IPCS, into an Institute that takes up antiracist and anticolonial work in the...

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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When the building was closed after the Palestine events we were shocked. We were also upset by the ending of all our member led initiatives that had keen participation. We value IPCS and want the project to remain a space for us to learn and contribute. #saveipcs #transformipcs

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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The board's decision re shutting the project down is not a solution, there also wasn't a problem but rather heaps of success. Join our open meeting on Thursday.

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Thank you @evelynaraluen . We need to #transformipcs so it continues to serve the postcolonial, decolonial work we urgently need on this continent.

evelyn araluen

@evelynaraluen

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This campaign has been building for many months as IPCS members and affiliates have been trying to transform the largely white and elite governance structure of an institution for the analysis of colonised peoples and cultures that was for a brief window something so much better

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Join the open meeting tonight to hear from the Institute of Postcolonial Studies community of members, visiting fellows and postcolonial studies academics

Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

10 months

Come to an open meeting hosted by the #TransformIPCS Working Group on Thursday the 7th of December at 7:00pm-8:00pm (AEDT). We’ll be talking about the #SaveIPCS campaign and hearing from members about their vision to #transformIPCS :

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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We are live

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Together with Michael Dutton he founded the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in 1996 and was its foundation director up until early 2019.

Phillip Darby - IPCS

Phillip Darby was educated at the Universities of Melbourne (MA, LLB) and Oxford – at St.Catherine’s and Nuffield Colleges (D.Phil). He taught at the University of Melbourne from 1969 to …

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@saveipcs

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"I implore those who are seeking to sell the building to not proceed. The death of the building could also create a death of ideas. I would also ask that the current leadership of the IPCS sit down with those seeking genuine change,

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Thank you @tori_stead . Many academics stand with this campaign to work towards keeping the Institute of Postcolonial Studies open.

Victoria Stead

@tori_stead

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I'm dismayed by the prospect of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (ICPS) closing. We desperately need spaces that can nurture transformative politics, and the tough but urgent and vital conversations that the pursuit of justice and liberation requires.

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Sign our open letter and join our public meeting this Thursday via Zoom.

Eda Seyhan

@eda_seyhan

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We want to transform IPCS into an Institute that takes up antiracist and anticolonial work in the Australian colony and transnationally. Join us!

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Recording is available via the link below!

kristin (she/her)

@kristin8X

10 months

I’ve been a distant though deeply appreciative observer of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies for many years. Recently I found out IPCS is under threat so I went to this meeting tonight. There were many profound reflections & I encourage anyone who isn’t familiar to watch 👇

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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We believe that a democratically elected Board that includes Aboriginal and POC directors is required to bring about an IPCS that is: accountable to its membership and the communities that are actively interrogating and resisting colonialism as a matter of survival;

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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and that people listen respectfully to each other. And finally, I would ask that a democratic process be put in place reflected the wishes members."

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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See:

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@theprimalplot

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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committed to undertaking intellectual work that takes up antiracist and anticolonial struggles in the Australian colony and abroad; and coherent and visionary in its goals, projects, initiatives and governing practices.

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Postcolonial Studies owes much to Palestinian intellectualism. These events were held at IPCS as it was a relevant place to host Palestinian writers who were guests on this continent at the invitation of Adelaide Writers Festival. Important work.

Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak 🇵🇸

@SammakTasnim

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THREAD One week after the Palestine events that we held at The Institute of Postcolonial Studies in February when Ramzy Baroud visited us, our friend the Executive Director Carlos Eduardo Morreo was stood down from his role by the white majority board @saveipcs

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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"I'm a founding member of the IPCS and I certainly do not approve of the closing down of the IPCS" - Phillip Darby As many of us have read, the Board of IPCS emailed membership on Monday announcing the closing down of the Institute.

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Zoom link for 7 pm open meeting:

Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

10 months

Come to an open meeting hosted by the #TransformIPCS Working Group on Thursday the 7th of December at 7:00pm-8:00pm (AEDT). We’ll be talking about the #SaveIPCS campaign and hearing from members about their vision to #transformIPCS :

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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Full recording of our open meeting can be found here:

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@saveipcs

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@amymcquire on the importance of keeping the Institute open.

Amy McQuire

@amymcquire

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It is critical that the Institute of Postcolonial Studies remains open given the role it’s played in hosting so many critical Indigenous voices and scholarship! Share and support the campaign @saveipcs

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

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@jtaur1 @carlosmorreo @ElizabethStrak This is plan B

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@saveipcs

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#transformipcs

Natalie Ironfield

@nat_ironfield

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We asked for Aboriginal and POC representation on the board of an institute that is supposedly committed to interrogating “colonial relations”. We are told that we are hostile and that this request is “starkly at odds” with the vision of IPCS @saveipcs

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@saveipcs

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However, an organisation committed to interrogating colonial relations must embody a diverse governance structure, which includes directors of the Board with a lived experience of colonisation.

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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@laurarc91 Shares in this thread her thoughts on yesterday's open meeting, the strength it demonstrated within the project for transforming IPCS

Dr Laura Rodriguez Castro

@laurarc91

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Last night's @saveipcs meeting was such a beautiful & well deserved acknowledgement of the labour of many of us who still believe in the value of transforming IPCS. Seeing friends, colleagues and IPCS members and founders speak about the relationships & community formed (cont.)

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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The website of IPCS features Darby as its founder, and the building's reading/library room is named after him: The Phillip Darby room. Surely a board of this Institute would respect the wishes of its founder and its over 200 paid members to keep the project alive.

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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In March of 2023, following a series of Black-Palestine Solidarity events organised by Palestinian member Tasnim Sammak at IPCS, the Board of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies’ (IPCS): -> Stood down Dr. Carlos Morreo from his role as Executive Officer without giving him any

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Save the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS)

@saveipcs

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(IPCS) may not be completely aware of what's been happening at IPCS over the past year. We haven't been public about the details due to a number of concerns, but from now on, we will be posting daily explainers on this account, as well as our IG @savepostcolonialstudies .

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