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Dear Colleagues,<br>
<br>
The Fall 2012 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series,
sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will focus on
the "Truth and Reconciliation, History and Justice." The opening
event on October 2 is a symposium on "Indigenous Peoples and Truth
and Reconciliation." The morning session will focus on established
processes in Canada and Australia. The afternoon session is on
"Reconciling with the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination,"
following up on this year's special theme of the U.N. Permanent
Forum on Indigenous issues, 11th session.<br>
<br>
Two confirmed speakers are traveling a long way so before we book
their flights, let me know asap if you would like to piggyback on
this event, since we are paying their major travel expenses. <br>
<br>
Journalist <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
style="color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Kirstie
Parker</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN"
lang="EN"> is a Yuwallarai Aboriginal woman from New South Wales,
Australia</span>.
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She is Managing Editor of the <i>Koori Mail</i> and a member of the
Board of Directors of Reconciliation Australia
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Greg Younging</span></b><span
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New Roman""> (<span style="color:black">Opaskwayak Cree)</span>
is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of
British Columbia Okanagan</span> and
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Assistant Director of Research for Canada's Truth and Reconciliation
Commission.<br>
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(Longer bios are included below fyi.)
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At present we plan to have the speakers arrive on Monday, Oct. 1 and
depart on Friday, Oct. 6. They might be available to speak
elsewhere on Wednesday, Oct. 3. They will participate in a full-day
symposium at UMass Amherst on Tuesday, Oct. 2 and attend the keynote
address for the series by James Anaya, U.N. Special Rapporteur on
Indigenous Peoples, the evening of Thursday, Oct. 4.<br>
<br>
Please contact me if you want further details about the series and
this event. I will announce both to this list once all details are
confirmed.<br>
<br>
All the best,<br>
Alice<br>
<br>
Journalist <b>Kirstie Parker</b> is a Yuwallarai Aboriginal woman
from New South Wales, Australia. She has more than 20 years
experience in journalism and communications. Since July 2006, she
has been the Editor of the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander newspaper, the Koori Mail. Prior to this, she was Media and
Communications Manager at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra, ran the
award-winning Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre (AILC), and
was the Director of the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute -
Tandanya in Adelaide. She was Director of Public Affairs for ATSIC
for two and a half years, and media adviser to a Federal Minister
for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs for two years. She
has also worked for ABC Radio and the West Australian newspaper, and
was Editor of a weekly regional newspaper in far north QLD. In
2003, she received a Centenary Medal for her contribution to the
Indigenous community and Australian life. Kirstie Parker is
currently a member of the board of Reconciliation Australia, a
national organization promoting reconciliation between Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the broader Australian
community. For further information about this project see <a
href="http://www.reconciliation.org.au/home">http://www.reconciliation.org.au/home</a>.<br>
<br>
<b>Greg Younging</b> (Opaskwayak Cree), Assistant Professor of
Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan,
has a Ph.D. in Educational Studies from the University of British
Columbia. He has worked for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal
Peoples, the Assembly of First Nations, the Committee of Inquiry
into Indian Education and the Native Women’s Association of Canada.
From 1990 to 2003, he was Managing Editor of Theytus Books, a First
Nations owned- and operated publisher. He has been a member of the
Canada Council Aboriginal Peoples Committee on the Arts, the British
Columbia Arts Council, and the Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus of the
Creator’s Rights Alliance. In 2011 he was appointed as Assistant
Director of Research to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(TRC) of Canada, which addresses the history, legacy and
inter-generational impacts of the residential school system on
Indigenous peoples in Canada. Starting in the 1840s, up to 95% of
the children in some areas went through the residential school
system, experiencing ruptured family relationships, language loss,
and in many cases physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse. The
survivors later sued the Government of Canada and the churches who
ran these schools. The TRC was established in 2008 with a five-year
mandate as part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement
Agreement, the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history;
see <a
href="http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca/English.html">http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca/English.html</a>.
The final report will include major recommendations to the
Government of Canada about how to heal the country and the
survivors, and how to bring reconciliation between indigenous and
non-indigenous peoples in Canada. For further information on this
Commission, see <a href="http://www.trc.ca">http://www.trc.ca</a>.<br>
<br>
<br>
Alice Nash<br>
Associate Professor of History<br>
University of Massachusetts<br>
Amherst, MA 01003<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anash@history.umass.edu">anash@history.umass.edu</a><br>
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