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LECTURE: RONALD M & CATHERINE H BERNDT BIENNIAL LECTURE 2012

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RONALD M & CATHERINE H BERNDT BIENNIAL LECTURE 2012 : THE RIGHTS AND BLIGHTS OF THE POLITICS OF INDIGENOUS HIGHER EDUCATION Other events...
It is clear from their voluminous scholarly output over five decades that Ronald and Catherine Berndt were keen observers of ‘the winds of change’ that were blowing strongly across most of Aboriginal Australia in that period. We contemporary scholars are closely watching both changes emanating from outside our communities and those that we as Indigenous Australians have instigated and moulded from within. A particular focus of this lecture is how Indigenous Higher Education policies, programs and practices have been shaped by the politics of Indigenous self-determination and supported by social justice and human rights agendas. These frameworks have also guided argument, advocacy and activism in the wider arena of Indigenous affairs, providing much of its language and forms of analysis. Today, however, there is evidence of a growing frustration that such frameworks have prevented alternative arguments, priorities and possibilities from entering public discourse. In this lecture, I discuss how these frameworks mutually constitute and uphold forms of analysis in Indigenous academia and Indigenous affairs in ways that fail to engage with the complexity of the contemporary space in which we as Indigenous people find ourselves today.
Speaker(s) PROFESSOR MARTIN NAKATA
Location AUDITORIUM, UNIVERSITY CLUB, HACKETT DRIVE, ENTRANCE 1
Contact Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery <[email protected]> : 64884785
Start Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:00
End Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:00
Submitted by Karen Eichorn <[email protected]>
Last Updated Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:13
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