Kummargii Yulendji Symposium is an event dedicated to improving the ways we describe, apply, and amplify First Nations Knowledges and publications. This symposium offers a forum for the ongoing movement of Indigenising the research, libraries, and publishing sector, which is evolving in exciting ways.
Date and Time
Thursday 12 September, 9am to 5:30pm
Location
RMIT’s Storey Hall, Building 16, 336/348 Swanston Street, Naarm/Melbourne
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This is a free event, but registration is essential. In person tickets are now sold out, but online tickets are still available. If you’d like to be put on the waitlist for an in-person ticket, please select the waitlist box below.
2024 Program Agenda
After a successful event in 2023, the Kummargii Yulendji Symposium returns as part of Social Sciences Week. The 2024 program aims to foster a community of practitioners, facilitate dialogue, and expand our collective understanding of how Indigenisation projects are being implemented and innovated ““ across Australia and internationally.
The program, shaped by contributions from our community of leaders in the sector, will include presentations and panels on reparative description, referencing, curatorial database projects, metadata revision, right of reply, cultural safety, AI and future technologies, offering many perspectives towards re-visioning colonial structures and systems.
Keynote presenters:
Tui Raven, Deakin University
Professor HÄ“mi Whaanga, Massey University (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Full program here: 2024 Program
*Kummargii Yulendji means ‘Knowledge is rising’ in Boon wurrung, named by Professor N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs, senior Boon wurrung elder and member of Informit’s First Peoples’ Lens steering committee.