[csaa-forum] What is Critical Indigenous Studies in the 21st Centry: ISRN Symposium.

[Fiona Nicoll]

What is Critical Indigenous Studies in the 21st Century?

In appearance Indigenous studies has acquired all the trappings of a discipline, although the accounts of its
formation vary. It is formally recognised as part of university curricula in New Zealand, Canada, Hawaii the United
States and Australia and is included in inter‐disciplinary contexts and degree programs or is offered as a program
and degree in its own right. Indigenous scholarship is being published in unprecedented numbers with publishing
houses competing for manuscripts. Indigenous studies journals began emerging in the 1970s though most were
and continue to be edited by non‐Indigenous people. Wicazo Sa Review published in the United States was an early
exception with Indigenous academics establishing and publishing the journal. It has taken some time for Wicazo’s
lead to be followed. Recent Indigenous edited and controlled journals include AlterNative: an international journal
of Indigenous Peoples and He Puna korero: Journal of Maori and Pacific Development which are produced in New
Zealand. The aboriginal policy studies journal in Canada, Oiwi: a Native Hawaiian Journal and the international
eJournal of Critical Indigenous Studies to name a few. In addition, Indigenous studies professional associations have
been established organising research related activities as well as convening conferences to enable intellectual
engagement and the formation of national and international networks. The nature and extent of this
institutionalisation and the conditions of existence, though often marginalised and under resourced, speaks to the
disciplinary status of Indigenous Studies but what remains unclear are its epistemological boundaries. This year’s
annual Indigenous Studies Symposium will focus on the question: what constitutes Indigenous Studies in the 21st century?

Our Keynote Speakers include: A/Professor Chris Andersen (CAN), Professor Larissa Behrendt (AUS),
A/Professor Hokulani K. Aikau (USA), Professor Roger Maaka (NZ), Professor Adrian Miller (AUS), Professor Aileen
Moreton‐Robinson (AUS), A/Professor Kim Tallbear (USA) and A/Professor Maggie Walter (AUS)
Date: Thursday 27th September 2012
Time: 9am ? 5pm
Where: QUT Kelvin Grove Campus F509
Cost: $150.00 Incl GST
For further information please visit www.isrn.qut.edu.au email isrn at qut.edu.au or phone (07) 3138 8611.
To register your RSVP for this event please visit: http://www.qut.edu.au/study/short‐courses‐and‐professionaldevelopment/
short‐courses/isrn‐annual‐symposium‐2012
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