[nativestudies-l] Possible guest speakers - Kirstie Parker and Greg Younging

[Lisa Brooks]

Alice,

 

This looks amazing! I'm so excited UMass will be hosting this important
conversation. I will definitely bring it into my teaching for next fall and
ask my students to attend! 

 

Take care,

Lisa

 

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Subject: [nativestudies-l] Possible guest speakers - Kirstie Parker and Greg
Younging

 

Dear Colleagues,

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.

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.  

Journalist Kirstie Parker is a Yuwallarai Aboriginal woman from New South
Wales, Australia.  She is Managing Editor of the Koori Mail and a member of
the Board of Directors of Reconciliation Australia .

Greg Younging (Opaskwayak Cree) is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies
at the University of British Columbia Okanagan and Assistant Director of
Research for Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

(Longer bios are included below fyi.) 

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.

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.

All the best,
Alice

Journalist Kirstie Parker 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 http://www.reconciliation.org.au/home.

Greg Younging (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
http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca/English.html.  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 http://www.trc.ca.


Alice Nash
Associate Professor of History
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
anash at history.umass.edu

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