(REVISED) SEMINAR SERIES
for period 9 September - 21 October
The following seminars will be held at 2.30 pm in the Macintosh
Room, Acton House. All interested people are welcome.
Thursday 9 September 2.30 - 4.00 pm
Speaker: Mr Denis Rose, Project Manager,
Australian Nature Conservation Agency (Aboriginal
Programs Section)
Topic: Cultural Heritage Management in Gariwerd National
Park
Until recently Denis Rose was actively involved with the Brambuk
Living Cultural Centre in the Gariwerd National Park,
south-western Victoria, where he gained extensive experience with
cultural heritage management and protection. Denis' presentation
will cover the Koorie history of the Park area, and provide an
overview of Brambuk's achievements in maintaining a balance
between tourism and site protection. Hunting rights in national
parks will also be discussed.
Thursday 16 September 2.30 - 4.00 pm
Speaker: Mr Michael Organ, Department of Economics,
University of Wollongong
Topic: Aboriginal People of the Illawarra and South Coast
1770 - 1900
This is an AIATSIS-funded research project which will provide an
ethno-historical analysis and documentary history of Aboriginal
peoples of the Illawarra and the South Coast between 1770 and
1900. Michael Organ will provide an overview of his research
findings to date.
Thursday 7 October
2.30 - 4.00 pm
Speaker: Mr Phillip Toyne, Visiting Fellow, Centre for
Environmental Law and Policy, Faculty of Law, ANU
Topic: Native Title, Reconciliation, and Aboriginal Owned
National Parks: a ramble across the issues
Phillip Toyne, a Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Courts of
Victoria, Northern Territory, Western Australia and South
Australia, has been advising Aboriginal communities with Land
Rights claims and other legal matters since 1975. From 1986 until
1992 he was Executive Director of the Australian Conservation
Foundation. Given these associations, Phillip is well placed to
discuss the issues and implications of Native Title,
Reconciliation, and National Park management.
Special Seminar
Wednesday 13 October 2.30 - 4.00 pm
Speakers: Ms Robyne Bancroft, Mr Nick Thieberger
and Mr Kim McKenzie, AIATSIS
Topic: Multimedia at AIATSIS
As the main repository of information relating to Indigenous
Australia, AIATSIS is working with new ways of retrieving and
presenting that information. At this seminar, Kim McKenzie and
Robyne Bancroft will demonstrate an electronic adaptation of the
Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia now in prototype form. Nick
Thieberger will demonstrate the Australian indigenous languages
information stacks that are being developed as part of the
dictionaries project.
Thursday 14 October
2.30 - 4.00 pm
Speaker: Fr Frank Brennan, Visiting Fellow in Law, RSSS, ANU
Topic: Is there still a place for a white cleric in the
Land Rights debate?
After 12 years work with Aboriginal communities, community groups
and churches during Land Rights campaigns, Frank Brennan will
outline his modus operandi, some political and moral
preconceptions, and offer observations on the need for informing
and developing a community moral consensus while respecting the
rights of major stakeholders (most especially the diverse
Aboriginal groupings) to develop their positions from consultation
to negotiation.
Frank Brennan, a Jesuit priest and lawyer, is a visiting fellow in
Law at the ANU Research School of Social Sciences, and is a member
of the Constitution Centenary Foundation. He is the author of
Land Rights Queensland Style, 1992 UQP, Sharing the Country,
Penguin 1991, editor of Finding Common Ground, Collins Dove 1985,
1986 and Reconciling Our Differences, Aurora Books 1992.
Thursday 21 October 2.30 - 4.00 pm
Speaker: Dr Bill Jonas, Principal, AIATSIS
Topic: Indigenous Peoples and Museums: Changing
Relationships
Dr Bill Jonas is Principal of AIATSIS, formerly Senior Lecturer in
Geography at the University of Newcastle, and Chairperson of
Awabakal Newcastle Aboriginal Cooperative Limited. He is a
Commissioner of the Australian Heritage Commission.