1997 FULBRIGHT SYMPOSIUM:

INDIGENOUS CULTURES IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD

Provisional Programme

Session Outline

THURSDAY, JULY 24

GLOBALISATION AND INDIGENOUS CULTURES

Stephanie Lawson, International Relations, Australian National University

• Culture and the Politics of Identity

Francesca Merlan, Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University

• Protection of Cultural Values in an Interconnected World: Continuity Or...?

Luke Taylor, National Museum of Australia

• Representing Indigenous Identities at the National Museum of Australia

Anna Shnukal, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit, University of Queensland

• Locals, immigrants and outsiders: re-figuring identity in the Torres Strait

Ruth and Vincent Megaw, Cultural Studies, Flinders University.

• 'Everything politics': outsiders looking in.

Ute Eickelkamp

• Localising the global: examples from a "remote" community in central Australia

Martin Wobst, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

• Indigenous art and the 'problem' of authenticity

BREAK

Robert Layton, Anthropology, Durham University

• Re-imaging identities: indigenous arts as ethnohistorical texts

Margie West, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

• Promoting Indigenous Art: the National Aboriginal Art Awards

Cheryl Kitchener, Native Title Unit, NSW Aboriginal Land Council &

June Ross, Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology, University of New England

• Frames of reference: ways of presenting indigenous art

Patricia Vinnicombe, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia

• What after the Four Wheel Drive? An appraisal of the origins and continuing production of natural pigments at the Warmarrn Community, Turkey Creek, East Kimberley

Tamara Lucas and Doreen Mellor, Art Gallery of New South Wales

• Crossings: Spirit Meets Substance in Australian Indigenous art

Julie Gough, School of Art, University of Tasmania

• Dark Secrets/Home Truths

Terence Turner, Anthropology, Cornell University

• Self-representation, media and the construction of a local-global continuum by the Kayapo of Brazil.

Paul Faulstich, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, USA

• Indigenous Globalization: A New/Old Way of Doing Environmentalism in an Interconnected World

Discussant:

• Nicholas Thomas, Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University

Keynote Dinner Speaker:

Howard Morphy, Anthropology, University College London

• Elite cultures for cultural elites?: adding value to indigenous arts

FRIDAY, JULY 25

INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS, CULTURAL TOURISM AND ENTERPRISE

Frank Budby, Colin McLennan, Birri Gubba Gutha Bimbi & Sacred Sites Aboriginal Corporation & Liz Hatte, archaeological consultant, Townville, Qld.

• Integrating Indigenous interests and mining: the Central Queensland experience

Sylvia Kleinert, Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University

• Historicising tourism: differentiating domestic and global

Brian Lambert and Werner Sarny, Travel North, Katherine

• From Katherine Gorge to Nitmiluk: cultural tourism as joint enterprise between indigenous people and industry

Claire Smith, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory & Members of the Jawoyn Association, Katherine

• Jawoyn strategies for success in cultural tourism

George Jungawunga and Maggie Tacumba, Bulman community

• Le Camp de Borridee international tourist complex in central Arnhem Land: using separation to keep Aboriginal culture strong

Heather Zeppel, University of Newcastle

• Entertainers to Entrepreneurs: Iban management of longhouse tourism in Sarawak, Borneo

Penny Dransart, Archaeology, Lampeter University

• Cultural tourism in the Andes: prospects and problems

BREAK

• Multiple-use regimes in national parks: some co-management implications for indigenous owners

Ken Issacson, Kalkadoon Tribal Council, Mt Isa

• Indigenous cultural tourism in the Mt. Isa region

Wendy Beck, Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology, University of New England & Members of Yarrawarrang Aboriginal Corporation

• Ecotourism on the mid-north coast of New South Wales

Robert Smith, Kumpatu Development, Morrisett, NSW

• Aboriginal plans for the 2000 Sydney Olympics: promoting Aboriginal culture to an international forum

Francis P. McManamon, National Park Service, USA

• Touring Archeology: Education Opportunity

Discussant: to be advised

SATURDAY, JULY 26

CREATING IDENTITY IN THE INFORMATION AGE

Kim Anderson, Concepts Manager, Australian Multimedia Enterprise

• Electronic media: new forms of opportunity for indigenous people

David Nathan, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

• Plugging in Indigenous knowledge, Connections and Innovations. The full version of the paper is available.

David Kirkby, Batchelor College, Alice Springs & David Tafler, Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA

• The use of electronic media in remote Aboriginal communities

Craig Aspinall, College of Indigenous Australian Peoples Southern Cross University & John Hobson, Koori Centre, University of Sydney

• Strategies for Building an Indigenous Australian Cybercommunity: 'Both Sides Of The Coin'

Robert Durand, community networking consultant, Alice Springs

• Networking with new tools: Using the Super Hyway and distributed data spaces to bring the collections home

Lissant Bolton Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, ANU

• Radio and the redefinition of culture in Vanuatu

Stephen Loring, Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution & Daniel Ashini Vice President, Innu Nation

• Past and Future pathways: Innu Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century

Larry Zimmerman, Anthropology, University of Iowa, Leonard Bruguier, Director, Institute of American Indian Studies, University of South Dakota, and Karen P. Zimmerman, TWIST Project, University Libraries, University of Iowa, USA.

• Cyberspace Smoke Signals: New Technologies and Native American Ethnicity

BREAK

Margaret Carew, Peter Danaja and Robert Handelsmann, Maningrida Arts and Culture, Maningrida

• Not drowning but waving: marketing indigenous art through the World Wide Web

Kim McKenzie and David Horton, AIATSIS & Robyn Bancroft, Australian National University

• Publishing's electronic future: beyond the CD-ROM version of the Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia (to be confirmed).

Mike Morwood, Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology, University of New England & Mary Pandilow and Jack Karadada, Kalumbaru community

• Two-way education: doing archaeology in the Kimberley

James Button, 'The Age' newspaper, Melbourne

• Representing indigenous people in the media

Lisa Meekison, Oxford University

• Playing the Olympics: performance versus the politics of representation in the Sydney Games

Faye Ginsburg, Centre for Media, Culture and History, New York University

• Indigenous Media, Worldly Intervention, and the Creation of Transnational Alliances

Discussant: to be advised

Evening Presentation:

Ian Dunlop, Film Australia

• Ethnographic film-making

SUNDAY, JULY 27

THE IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL POLICY

Fay Nelson, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, Australia Council

• The Australia Council's new policy on indigenous arts

Christine Fletcher, North Australian Research Unit, Australian National University

• The Emerging Post-national Civic Culture and its Influence on Policy in Indigenous Affairs

Marcia Langton, Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Studies, Northern Territory University

• Title to be advised

Cathryn McConaghy, Aboriginal and Multicultural Studies, University of New England

• Indigenous Social Policy in Postcolonial Times

Eleanor Bourke, Alan Barnes and Dianne Tearle, Aboriginal Research Institute Centre of Excellence, University of South Australia

• Indigneous Protocols for Cyberspace

Zarine Cooper, Project for Indian Cultural Studies, Bombay

• The Challenge of 'Backwardness': Changing Opportunities and Indentities in India

Michael Davis Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre Australian National University, Canberra

• The language of absence: Descriptions of Indigenous cultural rights in Western policy - a historical perspective

Ellen Lee, Aboriginal Heritage, Federal Archaeology Office, National Historic Sites, Parks Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage

• Aboriginal Heritage Issues in Canadian Land Claim Negotiations

BREAK

PANEL DISCUSSION

The aim of this session is to produce specific recommendations which can be used to guide and inform policy-makers in the development of policies and programmes aimed at encouraging indigenous access and equity in an interconnected world. At the conclusion of the symposium, one or more speakers will be asked to produce a brief conference summary in the form of a set of policy recommendations.

Panel:

Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University

William Jonas, National Museum of Australia

Brian Lambert, Town Councillor, Katherine

Frank McManamon, National Park Service, USA

Djon Mundine, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Deborah Bird Rose, North Australian Research Unit, Australian National University

Sharon Sullivan, Australian Heritage Commission

Moderator: Margaret Clunies-Ross, Sydney University

PLENARY ADDRESS

Patricia O'Shane, AM

Chancellor, University of New England

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