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Indigenous Knowledges - Reconciling Academic Priorities with Indigenous Realities
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
22-25 June 2005
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/indigenousknowledges/details.html
Indigenous populations around the world face rapid social, political, environmental and economic change in the
face of globalisation and challenges to cultural identities and tradition. Academic scholarship must
keep pace if it is to remain relevant to indigenous communities and societies in the 21st century.
New research methods and academic practices have begun to evolve within indigenous communities, which
in turn present new questions and challenges for conventional academic scholarship and practice.
This conference aims to bring together people from a range of disciplinary fields and nations who
are engaged in developing research-based responses to the real-world struggles of Maori and/or
other indigenous peoples. The purpose is to identify common themes and key issues in research,
and explore ideas for the future. The conference is intended to help scholars and researchers
locate themselves within a range of intellectual forums that are closely engaged with emerging
critiques of academic scholarship. The conference will allow a sharing of knowledge, expertise
and insight between both established and newly emerging networks of Maori and indigenous academics
and community researchers.
Other Worlds: Social movements and the making of
alternatives
UTS, Sydney
Thursday 28 - Friday 29 April 2005
Many proclaim this the global age - one world power, one world market, one world order. Yet many other worlds find new and fertile ground, flourishing against the norm. Social movements set new agendas, inspire participation and crystalise solidarity. At the centre of contestation, they can create emancipatory knowledges - knowledges for change. How do social movements generate new ways of being, new subjectivities, or modes of existence? What is the role of affective meaning, of symbolic action and collective conscience? What is the place of reflective action, and the dynamic of praxis? What is the dialectic between power and counter-power? What is the role of strategic conflict and dialogue? What are the sources of revolutionary and transformative change? What is the praxis of counter-globalism?
Other details:
Information: (02)9514 2714 or James Goodman at james.goodman@uts.edu.au
Dialogues Across Cultures
Melbourne
November 2004
http://www.monash.edu.au/cmo/Dialogues/
On November 11-14 2004 the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash
University host a major international symposium "Dialogues Across Cultures" focusing
on cultural diversity and difference within a community and their relationship
to Indigenous culture and identity. The main objective is to foster and encourage
discussion about the relationship between various cultural identities and groups,
and their place with the community and nation, with special emphasis on the relationship
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons, groups and cultures. The symposium
will draw together a broad range of prominent local, national and international
scholars, cultural practitioners and community figures interested in cultural
diversity, Indigenous and human rights, politics, education and development,
history and literature, music, art and film.
THIS FORM IS CURRENTLY DISABLED
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