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Phillipa Weeks Library, Level 4, Building 7, ANU Law School
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Event description
The research study situates displaced transnational Indigenous Peoples within a (Eurocentric) international law regime to examine how patriarchal colonial legacies in law and asymmetrical geo-political power perpetuate cycles of displacement. Informed by the Uluru Statement From the Heart (2017) and Kalara Principle (2017), this study adopts a complex mixed method research design (survey, interviews, and creative art) while drawing on lived experiences to explore the multiplicity of displaced transnational indigeneities. The overarching goal is to (re)establish solidarity with displaced transnational Indigenous Peoples globally by Africanising, indigenising, and decolonising institutional systems. The study further seeks to transform leadership in the academy and other public institutions with a focus on displaced transnational Indigenous women
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Speakers
Dr Veronica Fynn Bruey, PhD, LLB (Honours), LLM, MPH, BA, BSc (Honours)
Dr. Veronica Fynn Bruey is an internationally recognised multi-award-winning independent scholar-activist, serial entrepreneur, and advocate affiliated with Seattle University School of Law and Director of Flowers Institute’s Migration Health, Human Security, & Global Justice program. With nearly three decades of research and teaching in some 30 countries, Dr. Fynn Bruey is a well sought global speaker holding six world-class academic degrees. She has authored five books, hundreds of book chapters and journal articles published by Springer, Routledge, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Artha, and the Canadian Journal of African Studies (to name a few). She has held academic positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Washington, University of Cape Coast, University of London, the Australian National University, Georgetown University Law Centre, University of Witwatersrand, York University, and the University of British Columbia.
Currently, Dr Fynn Bruey is a co-founder/CEO of Tuki-Tumarankeh, a non-profit focused on global displacement; co-founder/Principal of VPFynn Consulting Firm, founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of Internal Displacement; co-editor of Bloomsbury’s Migration Displacement and Development Book Series; co-founder/lead of the Displaced Peoples’ Network, founder/lead of Disrupting Patriarchy and Masculinity in Africa International Research Collaborative; and founding Director of Flower’s University Global Health Sciences. She provides expert witness testimonies in courts on gender and race relations and is an expert panellist of the International Commission of Missing Children.
She is the recipient of many awards including the most recent Edmonton Public Library’s Capital Press Anthology Poetry Competition (2026) entitled, Alternative Facts: Spinning the Truths; the Law and Society’s Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award (2025); the Canadian Association of African Studies’ Pius Adesanmi Early Career Research Excellence Award (2024); the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Association, Edmonton’s Distinguished Academic Early Career Award (2023); and ANU International Alumna of the Year (2021) – to name a few. She supervises and mentors hundreds of students around the globe. Dr Fynn Bruey is an Indigenous Liberian war survivor and a global migrant.