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Panel discussion -
Country as Teacher: Looking Back and Looking Forward
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The Country as Teacher project has been operating for over five years, with steady success embedding Indigenous knowledge into school curricula. Join the people at the heart of the academic work for a discussion of the past and future of Country as Teacher in schools and universities.
Panel host/lead:
Professor Benny Wilson (Institute of Education, Faculty of Design & Society)
Panellists:
David Spillman is a man with obligations to Jagera/Ugarapul Country and who underwent his cultural learning on Karulkiyalu Country. He is one of the co-founders of the Country as Teacher approach and was the first to implement it in university classrooms. He is a well-respected and widely referenced educator and researcher.
Jordan Harrison is a former research assistant on the Country as Teacher research project, and co-founder and facilitator of the Country as Teacher Practitioner Network. His passions lie in the Dolphins finals hopes and invigorating humans desire to know, love and care for the places they live.
Monty Nixon is a PhD candidate, former research assistant on the Country as Teacher research project, lecturer and co-founder of the Country as Teacher Practitioner Network. His work seeks to help teachers embed their practice in Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing that centre learning from and caring for Country.
Eli Archer is a Palawa woman, mother, educator, and artist. Her main interest is in reinvigorating Indigenous pedagogical processes in schools in order to help students and families know and understand their local places, explore their own stories of relationship and connection to those places, and live their obligation and commitment to care for them.
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| 1:30pm–3:00pm |
Panel discussion -
winhangali bu winhangagi bu ngurambang gu
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Western cartographic practices have caused ongoing harm to Country, Aboriginal Peoples and cultural belonging by supporting terra nullius, dispossession, erasure and extraction, while Indigenous mapping practices have long held radically different relationships and obligations to Country. Through Aboriginal, migrant and diasporic Australian perspectives, this panel explores counter-mapping as an act of refusal and a way to assert and defend relationships with Country, home and homeland(s).
Panel host/lead:
Matte Ager-McConnell (Lecturer, Discipline of Architecture, Faculty of Design & Society)
Panellists:
Dr Endriana Audisho, Lecturer and Public Programs Director, School of Architecture, UTS
Dr Suneel Jethani, Senior Lecturer in Digital and Social Media, School of Communication, UTS
Bernadette Hardy (nee Bellwood), Dharug & Gamilaraay spatial designer, PhD researcher and co-leader of hardyhardy, an interior and industrial design studio based on Dharug Nura. B offers strategic cultural design and autistic (as a form of neurodivergence) spatial design advice for projects in the built environment space, actively raising the voice of Country and autistic culture in the design process.
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| 3:30pm–5:00pm |
Roundtable Panel discussion -
Indigenous Higher Degree Research Trajectories: Travelling with and alongside the academy
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Pathways in and out of PhD research are increasingly diverse and open-ended. This roundtable considers the opportunities, challenges and unexpected turns in higher degree research in Indigenous Studies and research with Indigenous communities.
Panellists:
Dr Latoya Aroha Rule is a research fellow at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research at UTS, descending from Wiradjuri, Te Ātiawa, and Norwegian peoples. Driven by the lived experience of witnessing the 2016 death in custody of their elder brother, Wayne Fella Morrison, their work focuses on Indigenous justice, systemic violence, and anti-torture reform. Over the past decade, they have advanced Indigenous legal issues through major contributions both academically and creatively at the community, national and international levels. They were a co-author of the recently launched inaugural Federal Bench Book on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and the Legal System. Additionally, Dr. Rule has co-led international research on the ‘school-to-prison pipeline’ with First Nations, Māori & Hawaiin communities, presented to high-level forums including the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, and most critically worked with First Nations women and their communities on the issue of coronial inquests.
Dr Grant Saunders, Writer/Director/Producer, UNSW. Grant is a Biripi-Worimi creative researcher with over 20 years' experience in the field of Aboriginal education and media. He has been teaching Aboriginal studies in the higher education context on and off for the past 12 years, recently completed his Doctor of Creative Arts at the UTS, and is now the newest academic member of Nura Gili, Centre for Indigenous Programs at UNSW. His creative doctorate was underpinned by Indigenous theoretical frameworks, Critical Race Theory, auto-ethnography, outsider- criminology, Hip Hop Pedagogy and practice-based research. His creative work ‘Hip Hop and the Block’ and supporting exegesis ‘JustUS: What Hip-hop Wants you to Know’ use discourse and reflexive thematic analysis to critically deconstruct and visualise the lyrics of Indigenous Hip Hop artists to tell the story of The Block, Redfern, Aboriginal self-determination, criminal justice and the emancipating truth-telling power of Hip Hop music. nevieve Murray, Lecturer in Architecture, University of Sydney
Genevieve Murray, Lecturer in Architecture, University of Sydney
Chair: Associate Professor Timothy Laurie, Higher Degree Research Coordinator, School of Communication and Social Sciences, Faculty of Design and Society
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