[csaa-forum] Indigenous sovereignties symposium

[Melissa Gregg]

Attached are more details and the registration form for the following
symposium.

Indigenous Sovereignties

A symposium hosted by the Australian Studies Centre,
The University of Queensland

23 November  2004
Women's College, The University of Queensland

The Australian Studies Centre is organising a one-day symposium
dedicated to showcasing and sharing Indigenous Studies research across
the Faculty of Arts and the University.
In recent years there has been a proliferation of literature written
about Indigenous people, sovereignty and self-determination.  Some of
this scholarship is concerned with formalizing self-determination,
demonstrating governments' contravention of United Nations' covenants
and discussing whether or not self-determination can be applied to
Indigenous peoples within nation states, while other scholarship engages
with western political theory as a means of explaining Indigenous claims
within western democracies.
This one day symposium brings together some of Indigenous Australia's
emerging and well known critical thinkers, who share a close but
skeptical interest in non-Indigenous representations of Indigenous
politics and sovereignty.  The symposium offers an opportunity to engage
with Indigenous scholars who will present their respective work on
Indigenous sovereignties across a variety of contexts.  The symposium is
designed to begin a different dialogue about Indigenous politics and
sovereignty by reconfiguring and challenging dominant perspectives.

Symposium themes include:
Indigenous Sovereignty and Popular Culture
Indigenous Sovereignty and the Writing of History
Indigenous Sovereignty and Nationhood
Indigenous Sovereignty and Politics

Confirmed speakers include:
Mr Philip Morrissey, The University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Tracey Bunda, University of Canberra
Mr Philip Falk, Griffith University
Ms Jacqui Katona, The University of Melbourne
Mr Gary Foley, The University of Melbourne

Organiser and Chair: Dr Aileen Moreton Robinson, Ph: (07) 3365 3142 or
email a.moretonrobinson at uq.edu.au
Contact: Marilyn Barton, Ph: (07) 3365-1369 or email: m.barton at uq.edu.au
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