Past conferences

AIATSIS is committed to leadership and excellence in promoting, facilitating and undertaking high quality research in Australian Indigenous studies. Below are listings of past years' conferences on issues relating to all aspects of Indigenous studies. The Native Title Research Unit (NTRU) Conference is held every year; AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference is held every two years.

AIATSIS does not publish the full proceedings of all Conferences. It does, however, encourage conveners to arrange publication where appropriate, and reminds conveners that Aboriginal Studies Press might be contacted to discuss potential publication, and that the Institute’s journal, Australian Aboriginal Studies, is willing to consider proposals for thematic issues based on conference sessions.

Selected papers from the conferences below can be viewed by following the links from the conference titles.

NTRU

1-3 June 2011

Our country, our future

NTRU

1-3 June 2010

People, place , power

AIATSIS

29Sept-01 Oct 2009

Perspectives on urban life: connections and reconnections

NTRU

03-05 Jun 2009

Spirit of country, land, water, life

NTRU

03-05 Jun 2008

Koora Yira Boordah - Past, present, future

NTRU

06-07 Jun 2007

Tides of Native Title

AIATSIS

05-08 Nov 2007

Forty Years On: Political transformation and sustainability since the Referendum and into the future’

AIATSIS, NMA and ANU

30-31 Mar 2006

Strangers on the Shore.
A compilation of papers presented at this conference is available.

NTRU

24-26 May 2006

Tradition and Change, Culture and Commerce

NTRU

01-03 Jun 2005

Human face of Native Title

NTRU

03-04 Jun 2004

Building Relationships

AIATSIS

22-25 Nov 2004

Indigenous studies: sharing the cultural and theoretical space

NTRU

03-05 Jun 2003

Native Title on the ground

NTRU

03-05 Sep 2002

Outcomes and possibilities (selected papers available)

AIATSIS

18-20 Sep 2001

The power of knowledge, the resonance of tradition (pdf 4.7 Mb)