NCIS organises and promotes various activities:
- Public lectures – to showcase agenda-setting contributions by ANU academics and visiting fellows
- Lectures and seminars – in response to topical issues
- Visiting fellow program – bringing outstanding visitors to the ANU to complement the University’s research strengths
- Internship program – extending existing ANU internship programs to encompass student attachment to relevant agencies working in areas of relevance to Indigenous Australians
- Postgraduate courses – identifying new postgraduate courses
- Links with the media – to improve the coverage of research and teaching issues of relevance to Indigenous Australians
Current and upcoming activities
2011 ANNUAL ANU RECONCILIATION LECTURE
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Katherine Aigner, MPhil Candidate,
National Centre for Indigenous Studies, The Australian National University
Forget the Koalas, what about us!
Oral Presentation, 25th July 2-4pm, Phillipa Weeks Law Library
Refreshments will be served after the presentation
For Indigenous knowledge holder Lorraine Mafi-Williams in her fight to keep cultural identity and the right to transmit cultural teachings, why did old alliances with Green politicians create a division within the community? I ask, in this case, if environmentalism and Aboriginal activism can co-exist? My thesis Reconciliation of a Stolen Generation Indigenous Scholar looks at the profile of this Elder of high degree and the recognition of her role in maintaining and protecting cultural heritage.
Teaching Aboriginal culture around the world from 1988, she sat on stage with the Dali Lama, represented her people at the United Nations in New York and received a Proclamation and the Key to the City of New York in 1992 for her contributions to culture and education. She is known for being culturally and creatively active in any role she took on: as a teacher, writer, filmmaker, actress and in health and housing initiatives. Her strong mind for politics led her to run for parliament as an Independent in the 1995 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Ballina.
Returning home to northern NSW in her final years to set up a Cultural Sanctuary to teach from in 1997, in the bush on public reserve crown land, she made a determined stand for land rights and custodial rights which became highly contested in the local debates over native title.
My thesis examines why she was opposed and how her stance brought her into direct conflict with local council and state politicians. I analyse the work of Mafi Williams and her predecessors in its social, historical and political context.
2010 Annual ANU Reconciliation Lecture
The 2010 Annual ANU Reconciliation Lecture will be held on Thursday 11 November at 5.30pm in the Arc cinema at the National Film and Sound Archive. We are delighted that Dr Kerry Arabena will deliver this year's lecture.
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