Conference program

For more details about the speakers and/or their papers, click here.

For a map of the UNSW Kensington campus showing the conference venues, click here: all sessions except the Saturday afternoon parallel sessions are in the Central Lecture Block, Theatre 3. The Central Lecture Block is opposite the Library and is number E19 on this map.

THURSDAY, 19 July

13.00-17.00 Introducing the Sami

Welcome to country

Welcome by Günter Minnerup, Director, Centre for European Studies

Keynote speaker:
Professor Carsten Smith: "The Development of Sami Rights in Norway from 1980 to 2007"

Professor Peter Sköld: "Indigenous Populations and Vulnerability. Characterizing Vulnerability in a Sami Context"

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

Kristina Lasko: "The Sami Parliament - consensus between the political power and Sami voters?"

Marit Myrvoll: "Learning the political power play of survival - Sami villagers fighting for the right to local settlement"

19.00 Social evening at the Survival Cafe, 135 Redfern Street

FRIDAY, 20 July

9.00-13.00 Social and economic development

9.00-10.30

Ketil Lenert Hansen: "Ethnic discrimination and living conditions in northern Norway: The SAMINOR Study"

Professor Jon Altman: “Sustainable Indigenous economic and social development in remote Australia: an alternative to mainstreaming”

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-13.00

Robyn Eversole: "Governing Development – the International Indigenous Contribution"

Paul Fryer: "The Real Minority? Kola Sami and Komi populations in Lovozero District, Russia"

Jukka Nyyssönen: "Lessons from the Finnish Sami History – Silencing the Indigenous Claims through Inclusion to the National Whole"

14.00-18.00 Indigenous activism

14.00-15.30

Gunnar Gjengset: "Back to the 80s: the struggle for the Alta-Kautokeino watercourse revisited"

Gro Ween: "Cultural heritage protection as Southern Sami activism"

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-18.00

Ulli (Helen) Corbett: "The National Committee to Defend Black Rights, its campaign to stop Aboriginal penal custodial deaths in Australia from 1984-1987, and the lessons learnt on Aboriginal political leadership"

Professor John Maynard: "In Search of the Aboriginal Nation"

Yalmambirra: "Wiradjuri: Revival and Survival"

SATURDAY, 21 July

9.30-13.00 Indigenous people at the United Nations

9.30-12.00

Professor Henry Minde: "The Sami and the United Nations from the 1960s through 1985"

Jane Robbins: "Home and Away: Indigenous Peoples and International Politics"

Gil Oren: "The Draft Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: the process of standard-setting and indigenous advocacy"

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

12.15-13.00 Special session

Lars-Nila Windoo Corbett: "Aboriginal Youth, Cultural Identity and Socio-Economic Development in a  Perth Urban Setting"

14.00-18.00 Cultural identity, education, literature

14.00-15.00 Keynote speaker:
Professor Mick Dodson: "Traditional Indigenous knowledge"

15.00-18.00 Education

15.00-18.00 (16.00-16.30 Coffee break)

Jorun Høier Kjølaas: "Moving from everyday life to school as learning arenas - An academization of traditional knowledge"

Cathryn McConaghy: "Rethinking Indigenous Education: Culturalism, Neocolonialism and Epistemic Authority"

Libby Lee: "From “problem” to “promising” : A young Aboriginal boy’s journey in literacy learning"

15.00-18.00 Keeping alive cultural traditions

15.00-18.00 (16.00-16.30 Coffee break)

Klara Hansen: "The Riddu Riđđu Festival: Sámi identity politics and indigeneity in Sápmi and its relevance to Australian debates"

Angel Bright: "The Construction of Aboriginality through Performance: Yabun and Woggan-ma-gule"

Marit Myrvoll: "Sámi Healers - The continuity of traditional medicine through religious and social change"

15.00-18.00 Indigenous literature

15.00-18.00 (16.00-16.30 Coffee break)

Gunnar Gjengset: "Matti Aikio - Master of Mimicry"

Anne Brewster: "Indigenous Protest: The Poetry of Romaine Moreton"

SUNDAY, 22 July

9.30-13.00 Natural resources and environment

(11.30-12.00 Coffee break)

Jo-Anne Weinman: "Settled Australia, unsettling law: legal constructions of the ‘traditional’ in indigenous society"

Eva Josefsen: "Indigenous Empowerment and the Finnmark Act"

Margaret Stephenson: "Resource Development on Aboriginal Lands and Waters in Australia"

Barbara Ann Hocking: "Power to the People? Reflections on the Linkages Between the Tasmanian Dams Case and the ALTA Power Dispute in Norway"

Michael Adams: "Arctic to outback: Indigenous rights and Western trends in conservation"

14.00-17.00 Indigenous people and the law

(15.30 -16.00 Coffee break)

Professor Lucy Smith: "The Human Rights Protection of Indigenous Children"

Neil Gillespie: "The disparity of funding between mainstream and Aboriginal Legal Aid"

Greg Wiman: "Queensland Murri Courts in 2007"

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