Dodson to speak on Assimilation

Date: 09 November 2000

Prominent Aboriginal activist Mick Dodson will head an impressive lineup of speakers at a two-day conference on Assimilation at the University of Sydney in November.

"Assimilation: Then and Now", a two day public forum, will be held at the University of Sydney on 30 November and 1 December, and will bring ogether leading historians, political theorists and social policy researchers in an important renewal of the debate around Australia's assimilationist history.

Speakers include: Wendy Brady (Aboriginal Research and Resource Centre,UNSW) • Mick Dodson (AIATSIS - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) • Bain Attwood (Historical Studies, Monash) • Michelle Blanchard & Juanita Sherwood (Koori Centre, University of Sydney) • Ann Curthoys (History, ANU) • Geoffrey Gray (AIATSIS) • Anna Haebich (Museum of Western Australia) • Sitarani Kerin (History, ANU) • Robert van Krieken (Social Work, Social Policy & Sociology, University of Sydney) • Marilyn Lake (History, La Trobe) • Gaynor Macdonald (Anthropology, University of Sydney) • Russell McGregor (History, James Cook University) • John Maynard (Umulliko Centre, University of Newcastle) • Aileen Moreton Robinson (Gender Studies, Flinders University) • Fiona Paisley (Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU) • Frances Peters-Little (ANU) • Sue Taffe (Historical Studies, Monash) • Julie Wells (Northern Territory University).

More details, abstracts & registration form on line at: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/rihss.usyd.edu.au/conference.html

For further information

Contact:	Melissa McMahon,
Union:	Labor Council of NSW
Phone:	(02) 9351 5344
Email:	melissa.mcmahon@rihss.usyd.edu.au
WWW:	http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/rihss/

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