2A - Panel
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Conway 1
| Wednesday, October 23, 2024 |
| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM |
| Conway 1 |
Overview
2A.1 Nick Thieberger
Rose Barrowcliffe
Rose Barrowcliffe
Speaker
A/Prof Nick Thieberger
A/Prof
University Of Melbourne
Balancing access and ICIP, risk aversion in holding institutions
Abstract
With good reason, a regime of recognising Indigenous rights in archival materials has developed in the recent past. Various Indigenous agencies have produced statements of Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property to guide holding institutions in their activities. However, it is now of some concern that many such institutions appear to be using ICIP as a way of preventing access to their holdings, most disturbingly in particular, preventing access by the Indigenous people whose heritage is recorded in those holdings. In a recent paper, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers have written about what they term the 'New Protectionism' in reference to the policies of governments in Australia, but referring to the risk-averse closing down of access to materials dealing with Indigenous language, culture or history.
Reference
Nick Thieberger, Michael Aird, Clint Bracknell, Jason Gibson, Amanda Harris, Marcia Langton, Gaye Sculthorpe, and Jane Simpson. 2024. The new protectionism: Risk aversion and access to Indigenous heritage records. To appear in Archives and Manuscripts
Reference
Nick Thieberger, Michael Aird, Clint Bracknell, Jason Gibson, Amanda Harris, Marcia Langton, Gaye Sculthorpe, and Jane Simpson. 2024. The new protectionism: Risk aversion and access to Indigenous heritage records. To appear in Archives and Manuscripts
Biography
Michael Aird is Director of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum. He has worked in the Aboriginal arts and cultural heritage sector since 1985, documenting aspects of urban Aboriginal history. He has curated over 35 exhibitions and undertaken numerous research projects in the area of native title, local histories and art. In 1996 he established Keeaira Press an independent publishing house, he has been published in academic journals and numerous other publications. While not holding an academic position for most of his career, his research output is significant, being recognized internationally, particularly for the study of photographs of Indigenous people.
Co-Author/s
Rose Barrowcliffe
Dr. Rose Barrowcliffe is a Butchulla postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University, a member of the Global Centre for Indigenous Futures and the ENRICH Global Co-Chair for 2023-24. Rose was the inaugural First Nations Archives Advisor to the Queensland State Archives. Rose's work and research examines the representation of Indigenous peoples and the enactment of Indigenous rights in collecting institutions.
Nick Thieberger
Nick Thieberger has worked with Australian languages and with Nafsan, a language from Efate, Vanuatu. He helped establish the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (http://paradisec.org.au) in 2003, a digital archive of mainly audio language records, and is now its Director. He leads the ARC LIEF project Nyingarn, a platform of primary sources in Australian languages. He is working on methods for creating reusable records from fieldwork on previously unrecorded languages. Based at the University of Melbourne, he is a CI in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.
Co-Author/s
Rose Barrowcliffe
Dr. Rose Barrowcliffe is a Butchulla postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University, a member of the Global Centre for Indigenous Futures and the ENRICH Global Co-Chair for 2023-24. Rose was the inaugural First Nations Archives Advisor to the Queensland State Archives. Rose's work and research examines the representation of Indigenous peoples and the enactment of Indigenous rights in collecting institutions.
Nick Thieberger
Nick Thieberger has worked with Australian languages and with Nafsan, a language from Efate, Vanuatu. He helped establish the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (http://paradisec.org.au) in 2003, a digital archive of mainly audio language records, and is now its Director. He leads the ARC LIEF project Nyingarn, a platform of primary sources in Australian languages. He is working on methods for creating reusable records from fieldwork on previously unrecorded languages. Based at the University of Melbourne, he is a CI in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.
