News and Events archive 2011
- Dr Jared Thomas - Teaching literacy to prisoners
- Professor Peter Buckskin appointed to ARC
- Symposium 9-10 December 2010 - latest update: speaker audios now available
- Improving Indigenous education
Teaching literacy to prisoners
Lecturer Jared Thomas has been teaching in a somewhat unusual classroom lately - the Port Augusta Prison. The UniSA lecturer in Aboriginal Studies: Communication, has been involved with rehabilitation programs that aim to increase the education and employment readiness of prisoners while reducing their chances of re-offending.
Dr Thomas, from the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, has been running the literacy component of the programs with partner Ruth Ratcliffe since last year. They have worked with two groups of inmates, delivering two month-long literacy development programs in Port Augusta.
Professor
Peter Buckskin appointed to ARC
UniSA's Professor Peter Buckskin is aiming to ensure that Aboriginal voices are heard in the Federal Government's research agenda, after being appointed to the Australian Research Council (ARC) Advisory Council.
Prof Buckskin, Dean of the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, was one of six new academics appointed to the Advisory Council by Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr.
Symposium
9-10 December 2010
2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
Indigenous Survival: Where to from here?
In December 2010, DUCIER held a symposium at the University of South Australia titled: 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People - Indigenous Survival: Where to from here?. An international symposium, this was a gathering of Indigenous community members, international lawyers, academics and activists who have worked in the area of international law and the rights of Indigenous Peoples from the 1970s up until the present.
Podcasts of the speakers' presentations are now available.
Look out for the special Symposium edition of the Griffith Law Review, to be published in October 2011. For the latest news on the Symposium and to listen to the podcast audio files of the speakers presenting at the event, visit the Symposium website.
Improving
Indigenous education
UniSA's first Indigenous PhD graduate from the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, hopes her research will lead to improved educational outcomes for Indigenous students.
News and events archive 2010
- Positioning the voice of the law-full Aboriginal Women
- Inaugural South Australian Women's and Gender Studies Annual Public Lecture
- International Contemporary Indigenous Art in Motion
- National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
- NAIDOC Week 2010
- Aboriginal studies provides inspiration
- Cultural influence - Jared Thomas
Hawke
Institute Event - Producing Regions: explorations about regions,
identities, communities and commodities
Associate Professor Irene Watson presents:
'Positioning the voice of the law-full Aboriginal Women'
This paper will explore the possibility of a greater role for Aboriginal world views in the courts' determinations while also positing future directions when working with the judiciary in the processes of translation across culture and history. In doing this I will discuss some of my recent research which brings together conversations with Aboriginal women from across Australia, juxtaposed with comments by justices made during the first decades of 'settlement', and in more recent times. The aim of this paper is to present a conversation led by 'law-full' Aboriginal women with judicial officers of Australian courts.
Associate Professor Irene Watson is an Indigenous woman of Tanganekald and Meintangk peoples, the traditional owners of the Coorong and lower southeast of South Australia. She is a lawyer and academic in the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, UniSA, and has published and lectured extensively on the construction of Aboriginal peoples' identities in both domestic and international law.
Date: Thursday 15 July, 2010. Time: 2.00
- 4.00
Venue: Bradley Forum, 5th floor Hawke Building City West,
University of South Australia
RSVP:
sonia.saitov@unisa.edu.au
Inaugural South Australian Women's and Gender Studies Annual Public Lecture
Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Professor of Indigenous Studies at the Queensland Institute of Technology, will deliver the Inaugural South Australian Women's and Gender Studies Annual Public Lecture in Adelaide:
'Indigeneity and the possessive logic of patriarchial white sovereignty'.
Date: 1 July, 2010
Time: 5.30pm for 6pm
Venue: Alan Scott Auditorium, Hawke Building, City West campus,
University of South Australia
Light refreshments will be provided on arrival.
This public lecture, the first of an annual series that will celebrate the presence of feminist scholarship in our universities, will coincide with the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association conference, to be held this year in Adelaide from 29 June-2 July.
Professor Moreton Robinson's lecture also marks the ten year anniversary of her ground-breaking book Talkin' Up to the White Woman (UQP, 2000), a challenge to white feminists from an Indigenous woman's perspective.
The inaugural annual lecture is hosted by the Women's Studies and Gender Studies programs and centres at Flinders University, the University of Adelaide and the University of SA. It is also supported by the Australian Critical Race And Whiteness Studies Association.
For more information: http://flinders.edu.au/sabs/awgsa-conference/home.cfm or inquiries to barbara.baird@flinders.edu.au
RSVP AWGSAconference@flinders.edu.au
International Contemporary Indigenous Art in Motion
The Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences is pleased to invite you to a very special event on Monday 17 May, 2010, entitled 'International Contemporary Indigenous Art in Motion'
Presentation: Monday 17 May, 6pm - 8pm
Venue: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery,
Level 3, Hawke Building
City
West Campus,
UniSA, 50 North Terrace (cnr Fenn Place and North Terrace)
Registrations are ESSENTIAL due to limited places and room, and for catering
purposes
Register:
Brenda.croft@unisa.edu.au or Kendra.coulter@unisa.edu.au
UniSA Professor earns an executive board role for the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
The University of South Australia's Professor Peter Buckskin, Dean and Head of School for the David Unaipon Indigenous College of Education and Research, has been named a member the Executive Board of the new National Congress of Australia's First Peoples.
The National Congress has three tiers - a National Executive, an independent Ethics Council and a 120 person National Congress which will meet annually.
The make-up of the board and key positions for the National Congress were officially released in Sydney today.
UniSA Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Hoj says the appointment is not only a great personal honour for Professor Buckskin, but an acknowledgement of the vital role of education in building understanding and equality in society.
'Professor Buckskin has shown strong leadership both within the university and in the wider community in working to increase Indigenous participation in education and in building an atmosphere where Indigenous knowledge and perspectives are valued,' Prof Hoj said.
NAIDOC
Week 4-11 July, 2010
NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. the week is a great opportunity to participate in a range of activities and to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
Wherever you live, you can take part in NAIDOC Week celebrations.
To find out about NAIDOC Week activities in your area, contact your nearest Indigenous Co-ordinating Centre (ICC) on:
free call 1800 079 098
except Nhulurnbuy 1800 089 148
Kalgoorlie 1800 193 357
and Kununurra 1800 193
348
Generational
learning
Studying Aboriginal Studies at UniSA inspired expat Heather Hendrickson to help orphans in Africa and business women in America.
The 2007 Masters of Aboriginal Studies graduate who grew up in Australia and has now lived in California for 36 years, has an interest in social rights and human justice which led her to university study as a mature-aged student.
Cultural influence
The personal life of Jared Thomas very much informs his teaching and research as a lecturer at UniSA's David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research.
A member of the Nukunu people of the Southern Flinders Ranges, Thomas says that Nukunu land and culture is at the centre of his academic pursuits. One project sees Thomas and his family working with UniSA's Innovation Research Cluster to provide engagement with more than 4500 hectares of Nukunu People's Council properties.