Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary
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Event: 15 May 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
The value of qualitative data for articulating
the social impacts of native title
Presented by: Pam McGrath
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"I argue that although qualitative research on its own
has limited strategic value given the short
timeframes of many legal reform agendas,
when conducted over time as part of a longer-term
strategic partnership with native title organisations,
qualitative data can provide crucial insights into
social experience that have the potential to shift
entrenched assumptions of policy makers."
Event details: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/13/Seminar-Topics%E2%80%94Series-1/15_5...
Current CAEPR seminars: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/seminars.php
Event: 22 May 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Canberra fantasies, remote Indigenous subjects
and whites in Alice Springs: An anthropological view
Presented by: Åse Ottosson
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"Regional service towns like Alice Springs are
important but often overlooked urban settings
for research on the transformation and reorganisation
of relations among Indigenous and non-Indigenous
people from a rich diversity of backgrounds."
"Drawing on twelve years of ongoing residence,
anthropological research and work in Central Australia,
I will discuss how this makes towns like Alice Springs
rich, but also tricky, environments for policy-relevant
ethnographic research."
Event details: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/13/Seminar-Topics%E2%80%94Series-1/22_5...
Current CAEPR seminars: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/seminars.php
Event: 25 January - 25 May 2013: Canberra, ACT
Centenary of Canberra celebrates First Australians
"As we celebrate Canberra's 100th birthday in 2013,
we recognise Aboriginal people's continuing connection
to this place, a connection that spans some 20,000 years."
Event details: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/actindnetwork/message/20210
Event: 29 May 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Assisting and supporting Aboriginal Australians
following critical incidents and trauma:
Can Psychological First Aid be suitably adapted
to meet the needs of Aboriginal communities?
Presented by: Len Kanowski
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"This seminar will discuss plans to investigate
the suitability of existing PFA [Psychological First Aid]
approaches for Aboriginal Australians;
propose that we must continue to exercise caution
against the use of generic western psychological
interventions across different cultural groups;
and emphasise the need for culturally informed
approaches to psychological intervention and support."
Event details: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/13/Seminar-Topics%E2%80%94Series-1/29_5...
Current CAEPR seminars: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/seminars.php
Event: Ongoing: Canberra, ACT
Exhibition now showing:
First Australians - Resistance
"The lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples were profoundly changed by the arrival
of British colonists in 1788. Lives were lost
and land taken as the colonisers attempted to
impose new social, economic and religious
orders. ... "
"Indigenous people responded in a variety of ways.
Some fought back with weapons. Others
developed different strategies to survive this
new and hostile presence."
"Here we present four of these stories."
National Museum of Australia
Event details: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/first_australians/resistance
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