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2004 Seminar series
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Series 1: Regionalism, Indigenous Governance and Decision Making
Date |
Speaker(s) |
Topic |
22 Mar |
Dr John Borrows, University of Victoria, Canada |
Living traditions: the resurgence of Indigenous law |
29 Mar |
Mr Brian Wyatt, Goldfields Land and Sea Council |
Native title – achievement, despite the odds |
05 Apr |
Senator Kerry O'Brien |
Regionalism and Indigenous governance: challenges for policy makers |
19 Apr |
Mr Sam Jeffries, Murdi Paaki Regional Council |
Mid-passage towards self-determination: A regional and community perspective |
27 Apr |
Dr Will Sanders, CAEPR |
Prospects for regionalism in Indigenous community governance |
03 May |
Mr Robert Blowes, Barrister at Law |
Societies, communities, groups and individuals in native title claims and determinations |
10 May |
Dr Sarah Holcombe, CAEPR |
Traditional owners and ‘community-country’ anangu: distinctions and dilemmas |
17 May |
Mr Bill Lawrie, Native Title Unit, Ngaanyatjarra Land Council |
Native Title in the Deserts of WA - Progress, proof, policy, PBCs, and the future |
24 May |
Dr Patrick Sullivan, AIATSIS |
Leadership and authority in the Harvard studies and Australian Aboriginal communities |
31 May |
Mr Eric (Dickie) Bedford |
TBA |
Series 2: Profiling AIASTIS current research
Date |
Speaker(s) |
Topic |
02 Aug |
Alan Thorne |
Kow Swamp revisited |
09 Aug |
Stuart Bradfield |
Agreement making is the way to go, but where are we going?
Coming to grips with native title agreement making |
16 Aug |
Brendan Delahunty and |
Policing implications of illicit drug use in Indigenous communities |
23 Aug |
Graeme Ward and |
Wadeye, Northern Territory: Recording and dating of rock-markings and their potential for cultural heritage tourism |
30 Aug |
Robin Sim |
My island home: Aboriginal responses to changing land-island landscapes in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria |
27 Sep |
Jane Anderson |
Authors, owners and archives: a working paper |
05 Oct |
Betty Meehan and |
An-barra archaeological project: a progress report |
11 Oct |
Peter Veth |
Western Desert history in perspective |
18 Oct |
Samantha Disbray |
Language acquisition by Aboriginal children and educational implications |
22 Oct |
Marcia Langton |
Towards a national recording project for Indigenous performance in Australia |
25 Oct |
Lynley Wallis |
Cultural heritage, Native Title, industry and custodians: a working paper |
01 Nov |
Steve Larkin |
Evidence based policy making in Indigenous health in Australia |