Helen Verran is an Australian historian and philosopher of science. She has spent nearly thirty years working with Aboriginal Australians in northeast Arnhem Land, and recently spent time working in northern Norway with Saami people at the Arctic University of Norway. She currently works in Contemporary Indigenous Knowledge and Governance at Charles Darwin University in Northern Australia. A Sensible Imaginary. Two Stories (lecture) Helen Verran lived and worked in places where people entangle words and things differently, expressing quite other metaphysical commitments than we modern humanists who represent ourselves and our milieu to ourselves. In her talk she looks at how children in Yoruba elementary school classrooms, and Yolngu Aboriginal Australians move consciously between differing forms of word-thing entanglements and negotiate cavernous rifts in the noise of being.