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Béatrice Bijon

Béatrice Bijon is Associate Dean, International in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

In her native France Bijon lectured in English literature and history at the Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Etienne for about ten years. She was awarded a Harold White Fellowship at the National Library of Australia in 2011 where she researched the transnational links between Australian and British campaigners for women's suffrage. This resulted in the book Suffragistes et Suffragettes: la conquête du droit de vote des femmes au Royaume-Uni et aux Etats-Unis (2017) and Deeds Not Words (2018), an exhibition that she curated for the National Library of Australia.

Bijon has been involved in collaborative research in Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land, northern Australia since 2012. This led to her involvement in Etched in Bone (2018), a feature documentary film about the theft of human remains by the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land and their eventual repatriation from the Smithsonian Institution. She co-directed the film and produced it in collaboration with historian Martin Thomas.

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ETCHED IN BONE »

When the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC agrees to repatriate stolen human bones from northern Australia, an Aboriginal elder creates a ceremony that restores his ancestors’ spirits to their homeland...