NAIDOC Week Event: Researching with Indigenous Peoples– Part B
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Location: Online Seminar
- Cost: Free
- More information: Zoom Registration Required
- Contact: Yvonne Philp Senior Administrator
- Email: yvonne.philp@adelaide.edu.au
- Dr Jenni Caruso Lecturer, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide
- Mr Grayson Rotumah Lecturer, CASM, Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide
- Mr Michael Colbung Coordinator of Indigenous Learning, School of Education, University of Adelaide
A conversation on research interests. Finding your voice in the process. Educating the Academy. The gelling of ideologies. This seminar expands on the discussions of our Reconciliation Week seminar: In this Together: Reconciliation in Action in Schools.
Presenters from the University of Adelaide.
Dr Jenni Caruso (Lecturer, School of Humanities): My research interests focus on the Stolen Generations and the ways in which policies around the removal of half-caste children were informed and scaffolded by the notions of the power of 'being white' and the deficits of 'being Aboriginal'. A growing focus is to expand this body of work by engaging in cross-disciplinary conversations around the ingrained eugenicist underpinnings of those policies, expanding my research into the interwar transference of eugenicist ideologies from Europe to Australian policies of half-caste child removal.
Mr Grayson Rotumah (Lecturer, CASM, Elder Conservatorium): My research investigates ways to strengthen, celebrate and promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures through focussed curatorial efforts that give voice to the diversity of living, dynamic and growing Indigenous traditions in a global context.
Mr Michael Colbung (Coordinator of Indigenous Learning, School of Education) is a lecturer and Interdisciplinary Researcher with the School of education, in the Faculty of Arts. Michael has worked on a number of research projects undertaking a variety of roles in those projects. He is a Wongatha (Wongi) / Nyoongah man with strong cultural links to the Wirangu and Kookatha nations after living in Ceduna for 30 years. Michael has also had a number of roles within and outside the University structure that enables him to point out an Aboriginal standpoint where needed. Interdisciplinary Research has allowed Michael to work on a number of projects in Aboriginal communities and attach the necessary sensitivities when undertaking research with Aboriginal families and their communities.