CONFERENCE - The Inaugural National Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Conference, 18-19 Nov 2010, UNSW [17.09.2010]
The Inaugural National Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Conference
Indigenous Policy and Dialogue: New Relationships, New Possibilities
18-19 Nov 2010, UNSW
Keynote Speakers:
Culture and institutions in the rebuilding of Indigenous nations
Professor Joe Kalt Ford
Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School and Co-Director Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Transforming the relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler societies: Understanding the need for a dialogue of political reconciliation
Professor Kiera Ladner
Canada Research Chair, University of Manitoba
How can Australia afford not to be reconciled?
Professor Patrick Dodson
Founding Director of the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit, University of New South Wales
Panels:
Care or justice: do we really have to choose?
Chair: Associate Professor Sarah Maddison
Featuring: Mick Gooda (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner), Professor Bettina Cass (SPRC) and Muriel Bamblett (Aboriginal Child Care Agency)
Whatever happened to reconciliation? Reflecting on the decade since the end of the formal reconciliation process
Chair: Professor Patrick Dodson
Featuring: Sean Brennan (Indigenous Legal Issues Project, Faculty of Law, UNSW), Linda Burney MP, (Member for Canterbury, Minister for Community Services and Minister for the State Plan) and Helen Sham-Ho (former member of the NSW Legislative Council)
The program is now available on the conference website.
http://nipdc.arts.unsw.edu.au/
For further information contact the conference organisers, nipdc@unsw.edu.au or by phone + 61 (2) 9385-7588