Kummargii Yulendji Symposium will return this year as part of Social Sciences Week. This event, co-convened by Informit and CAVAL, is dedicated to improving the ways we describe, apply, and amplify First Nations Knowledges and publications, and will take place on Thursday 12 September, at RMIT’s Storey Hall in Naarm/Melbourne.
Following the success of last year’s event, the 2024 Kummargii Yulendji Symposium will offer a forum for the ongoing movement of Indigenising the research, libraries, and publishing sector, which is evolving in exciting ways.
The program for this year’s symposium is shaped by contributions from these sectors, and will feature presentations and panels on a range of topics including reparative description, referencing, curatorial database projects, metadata revision, right of reply, cultural safety, AI, and future technologies. These discussions will offer diverse perspectives on how to re-vision colonial structures and systems.
Keynote speakers include Tui Raven from Deakin University and Professor Hēmi Whaanga from Massey University (Aotearoa/New Zealand).
The symposium is free to attend, but registration is essential and must be completed by 1 September 2024. Stay tuned for the full program announcement in the coming weeks.
We look forward to what promises to be an enriching and impactful day of learning and collaboration.
Kummargii Yulendji, meaning ‘Knowledge is rising’ in Boon wurrung, was named by Professor N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs, senior Boon wurrung elder and member of Informit’s First Peoples’ Lens steering committee.
