Location: The University of New South Wales KENSIGNTON Room LG19 Goodsell Building (map ref. F- 20). Convenors: danielle davis, The University of New South Wales Bronwyn Carlson, The University of Wollongong Garrick Cooper, The University of Canterbury, NZ.
Time Paper Presenter 10 00am Welcome Introduction and Overview of Agenda 10 10am Presentation Panel: l Transformation Collaboration. The Work of L R Gordon (davis,cooper, Whatman davis, Dr Bronwyn Carlson, Garrick Cooper davis UNSW, Cooper University of Canterbury Respondent via streaming Prof LR Gordon Temple University TBC 11 00am Presentation Paper/less Selves: Writing Refugee Identities 11 30am Presentation A Borderless World: Literature, Nation, Transnation A/Prof Tony Simoes Da Silva University of Wollongong Prof Bill Ashcroft UNSW 12 00-12 40pm Lunch 12 45pm Presentation Temporality and Alterity in Feminist Theory 1 00pm Presentation TBC 1 30pm Presentation 'Representing Aboriginal Masculinity in Howard's Australia Anisha Gautam UNSW Dr Nijmeh Hajjar University of Sydney Dr Shino Konishi Australian National University 2 00pm Break 2 15pm Presentation Dallas Scott... is app : The confirmation of Aboriginality and the politics of identity Dr Bronwyn Carlson University of Wollongong 2 40pm 3 00pm Presentation Indigenous language Presentation Sustainable Heritage and Responsible Economic Development Noe Lumby Aboriginal Education Consultant Prof Claire Smith Flinders University SA. 3 30pm Presentation 'Children's Stories and Indigenous Research' A/Prof Blaze Kwaymullina University of Western Australia 4.00 Close. Supported by The Institute for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong and Aotahi: School of Indigenous Studies, University of Canterbury Christchurch. RSVP - danielledavis@unsw.edu.au
BIOS Dr Nijmeh Hajjar is the Chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include gender issues in modern Arabic culture, literature and cinema. Her publications include: The Politics and Poetics of Ameen Rihani: The Humanist ideology of an Arab- American Intellectual and Activist (London & New York, 2010); Living Arabic in Context (Beirut, 2005); Praise of the Prophet in Arabic Poetry and Songs - Intentions and Methods: A Critical Aesthetic Study (Beirut, 2012). TBC Lewis R. Gordon is Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought. He also is Director of the Centre for Afro- Jewish Studies and a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Professor Gordon has written many works in race theory, Africana philosophy, postcolonial phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social and political philosophy, film and literature, philosophy of education, philosophy of human sciences, and a variety of topics in the public interest. He is also Ongoing Visiting Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Professor Gordon has presented lectures internationally, and has been a recipient of numerous awards and distinguished fellows. Garrick Cooper My research is driven by pursuing practices of 'decoloniality'. This includes understanding the ways in which coloniality reproduces and sustains itself and more importantly how we m epistemologies (and the philosophical insights that we can draw from these) to critique rward the oppressor and the oppressed". Shino Konishi is a research fellow in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University. Her work investigates western representations of Aboriginal people from the eighteenth century to the present; with a particular focus on the depiction of Indigenous gender relations. She is the author of The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World (London, 2012), and with Maria Nugent co- edits Aboriginal History journal. She is Aboriginal and identifies with the Yawuru people of Broome, Western Australia. danielle davis is a lecturer at University of New South Wales in Indigenous Studies. Her research areas are philosophy of race, Black Existentialism, theorising the black gendered body, Indigenous theory and thought as social transformation. She is currently co- editing a book entitled; Thought as Social Transformation: The Work of Lewis R Gordon.
Bronwyn Carlson is a senior lecturer in the Indigenous Studies Unit in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong. She is interested in the complexities surrounding Aboriginal identity as it has been discursively produced in the everyday with a focus on what constitutes and is constitutive of Aboriginal identity in contemporary times. Given the popularity of online social networking sites she is particularly interested in the way Aboriginal people represent and negotiate identity and conceptualisations of community in the online space, more specifically in FaceBook. Tony Simoes Da Silva Currently I am Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Chair of the Faculty Education Committee, a member of UOW Senate, of the Senate Standing Committee and of the UOW Education Committee. Other governance roles have included Interim Head, School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages (UOW, January July 2009); Deputy Head, School of Arts and Social Sciences, James Cook University (January- May 2007); and Director, Master of English, University of Exeter (2001-2004). I co- edit the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and La Questione Meridionale/The Southern Question. Blaze Kwaymullina belongs to the Palyku and Nyamal peoples of the Pilbara region in Northwest Western Australia. He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia. Formal education and qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts with a major in history, a Masters in Criminal Justice and he is in the last stages of reader of creation stories. He is also a practising visual artist. His research has been in the area of Aboriginal knowledge systems, creative writing and Aboriginal literature, Aboriginal Law and Aboriginal concepts of justice. Claire Smith has produced nine books (authored, co- authored and co- edited) and more than 40 refereed articles, in English, Spanish, Catalan and Japanese. A former Fulbright Fellow with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, she has lectured for brief terms at universities in South Africa and the USA, including a one- year post at Columbia University in New York. She has raised over $1.8 million in funding for humanities research projects, including two Fulbright grants and six Australian Research Council grants. Claire Smith is the twice- elected President of the World Archaeological Congress (2003-08; 2008-13). In this capacity she has built global research capacity through establishing the Archaeologists without Borders and Global Libraries Programs and by initiating five new international book series. Bill Ashcroft is a renowned critic and theorist, founding exponent of post- colonial theory, co- author of The Empire Writes Back, and the first text to examine systematically the field of post- colonial studies. He is author and co- author of sixteen books and over 150 articles and chapters, variously translated into six languages, including Post- Colonial Transformation and On Post- Colonial Futures and. He holds an Australian Professorial
Anisha Gautam is a PhD candidate in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of New South Wales. Working from within a postcolonial framework, her research examines contemporary feminist theories of temporality and history in an effort to understand how such understandings create and sustain differences between women. Sue Whatman is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education and Sports Coaching with Griffith University (since 2011). This may sound somewhat asynchronous to this work now, but for the previous seventeen years, Sue worked in Indigenous student support and developed subjects and taught into the Indigenous Studies Indigenous Knowledge (ISIK) minor at QUT, through the Oodgeroo Unit. Since 1993, Sue has worked alongside numerous Indigenous educators, working through changing understandings and expectations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and perspectives on and in education. Sue is continuing various work in IK with colleagues here on a collection of works on 'Thought as Social Transformation' and also at QUT, particularly through a current ALTC investigation into EIP in teaching practicum. Noe Lumby is an Aboriginal Education Consultant in the South Western Sydney region. After completing a Bachelor of Teaching at University of Wollongong in 2002 Noe worked in the South Western Sydney region as a teacher and an Aboriginal Education Consultant. Noe has also worked as a consultant for the Department of Education in Western Australia looking after educational programs in the Pilbara and Kimberley region which focused on supporting aspirant Aboriginal Students from school to tertiary destinations and work opportunities. Noe spent 2 years in the Victorian high country as a teaching principal in a small community. Noe has also worked with the Polly Farmer Foundation as a consultant, supporting Aboriginal Education projects in WA, NSW, NT and SA. She has also worked in a school in a juvenile justice setting and has an interest in supporting Aboriginal students in their transition back to their school and communities. Noe has completed Masters Indigenous Language Education (MILE) at University of Sydney in 2009. In her current role she is involved in a two year project to embed Aboriginal perspectives into high school curriculum. She is also involved working with Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authourity ( ACARA) to develop the Civic and Citizenship national syllabus. Noe will be commencing a Masters by Research in the area of embedding Aboriginal Perspectives.
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