Please join us on Monday, April 15, from 5-7 pm, for a special colloquium in the Department of Anthropology! This event will feature the research of a visiting scholar, Dr. Piers Kelly, who is a DECRA Fellow at the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of New England, Australia. He will give a talk entitled "The Enduring Legacy of Arnold R. Pilling’s Anthropological Fieldwork in Australia's Tiwi Islands (1953-1954): Message Sticks, Oral History, and Trail-Blazing Research Methods Confirmation." This talk describes the research of former WSU Professor of Anthropology Arnold Pilling's 1950s fieldwork in the Tiwi Islands, Australia, where he collected hundreds of oral histories about community disputes. These histories are contributing to current research into the use of message sticks – marked wooden objects used by Indigenous Australians for communicating between clans or larger groups – and are of even greater value to the living descendants of his consultants, representing an important historical record for a region with few archives.