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Email

reuben.brown@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary Fellow
School of Languages and Linguistics
Education
PhD
University of Sydney
Bachelors Degree
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0001-8092-4980

Dr Reuben Brown

Honorary Fellow
School of Languages and Linguistics

20 Scholarly works
4 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Recorded or Rendered Work

    Music! Dance! Culture! Episode 7: Taking Inyjalarrku around the world and carrying it on with Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu and Reuben Brown
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    ‘Remix!': Continuity through innovation in the manyardi song tradition of western Arnhem Land
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Festivals as a Forum for Indigenous Public Ceremony from Remote Australia
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108991209.022
  • 2021

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Modern Diplomacy: Understanding Ceremonial Exchange at Indigenous Festivals
  • 2019

    Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival

    RUIAC Symposium, Workshop on Country, Printmaking workshop
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    Makassan – Arnhem – Kimberley (Northern Australia): Pre-European Contact
  • 2018

    Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival

    Diplomacies of Practice: Workshop-on-Country and Symposium and Sharing of Indigenous Cultural Practice
Reuben Brown

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2015
William McIlrath Memorial Scholarship The University of Sydney
2011
ARC DP1096897 Postgraduate scholarship The University of Sydney

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Book

    The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Arrungpayarrun ta alan "We'll follow their path"
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Biganga bayiya (Singing the Possum): Reclaiming Indigenous knowledge in the academy
  • 2022

    Book Chapter

    “I’ll show you that manyardi”: Memory and lived experience in the performance of public ceremony in Western Arnhem Land
    DOI: 10.30722/sup.9781743328675.02
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Amanda Harris on representing Australian Aboriginal music and dance 1930 -1970 [Review of the book Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930 -1970, by Amanda Harris]
    DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2022.2095652
  • 2021

    Dataset

    Kun-borrk/manyardi (song and dance from western Arnhem Land) and other performances, 2011-2019. Collection RB2 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Other Access].
    DOI: 10.4225/72/56E97741DD607
  • 2020

    Software / Code

    Discovery Database Tool 0.9 Beta

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2021

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Modern Diplomacy: Understanding Ceremonial Exchange at Indigenous Festivals

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