Sally K. May, Adelaide University
Sally is an ARC Future Fellow at Adelaide University. Sally’s research explores the intersections of art, history, and heritage in northern Australia, with a particular focus on Arnhem Land. Over the past two decades, she has worked in long-term collaboration with Aboriginal communities to understand how visual traditions, collecting practices, and cross-cultural encounters shape both local histories and broader narratives of Australia’s past.
Jacinta Koolmatrie, South Australian Museum
Jacinta is an Adnyamathanha and Ngarrindjeri woman. She has a keen interest in creating greater awareness of Indigenous history and Knowledges. Her background is in archaeology and she has predominantly worked within the museum sector.
Catherine J. Frieman, Australian National University
Cate is an ARC Future Fellow. She has a broad interest in pre-Roman Europe, technology studies, innovation and resistance, palaeogenomics, kinship, and inequality. She works on the past to create a foundation for more equal futures.
James L. Flexner, University of Sydney
James teaches historical archaeology and heritage studies at the University of Sydney. His main research interests are in landscape archaeology and historical archaeology, with a geographic focus on Oceania. His research projects involve fieldwork, artefact analysis, archival research, and studying historical ethnographic collections. James is also involved in developing close partnerships with local communities in the Pacific region, as well as broader public outreach efforts to make archaeology accessible to many audiences.
Emily Miller, Adelaide University
Emily previously lectured in Heritage Management and topics around Indigenous Knowledges at Charles Darwin University, including exploring ways of bringing Indigenous and western ways of being together. She now works at Adelaide University and her research interests are in working with Indigenous community members in Kakadu and western Arnhem Land to explore connections between fibre objects in rock art, museum collections and current making practices.
Mady Kelly, Flinders University
Madeleine is an early-career anthropological archaeologist and rock art specialist at Flinders University, Kaurna Country. Their research and teaching examine how we understand, care for, and manage rock art and water places for Country and community across past, present, and future contexts. These precious places are archives of ancestral presence but also places for intergenerational knowledge exchange and new knowledge-making. Madeleine explores how multivocal and relational approaches in Aboriginal-led projects can broaden archaeological and hydrological conceptions of these places within decolonial and multidisciplinary frameworks. They are also invested in building space within Australia archaeology for the exploration of queer archaeologies.
Joakim Goldhahn, Adelaide University
Originally from Sweden, Joakim is a professorial researcher at Adelaide University. He attended his first N-TAG and B-TAG as a PhD student and has been a recurrent attendee to these conferences ever since. At the moment, Joakim is involved in community-led projects in northern Australia and Kenya, focusing on colonial history, cross-cultural encounters, and the life stories of known rock art artists and Indigenous knowledge holders. He is also interested in unfolding aspects of the North European Bronze Age, animal-human intra-action, and a flat-relational ontological approach to the history of archaeology.
Stevie Skitmore, Australian National University
Stevie is a PhD candidate at the ANU and an associate with Extent Heritage. Stevie is particularly interested in what emerges in the intersection of community-led heritage, reclamation, emplacement and longing. They are currently working with Anindilyakwa on the Groote Archipelago Songlines Archaeology Project.
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