Opening Keynote

Dr Stanley Griffin

Stanley H. Griffin is Deputy Dean, Undergraduate Matters and Senior Lecturer, in Archival and Information Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Department of Library and Information Studies (DLIS) respectively at The University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica Campus. He holds a BA (Hons.) in History, a PhD in Cultural Studies (with High Commendation), from the Cave Hill Barbados Campus of The University of the West Indies, and an MSc in Archives and Records Management (Int’l), University of Dundee, Scotland.

His research interests include Multiculturalism in Antigua and the Eastern Caribbean; the Cultural Dynamics of intra-Caribbean migrations; Archives in the constructs of Caribbean culture; and Community Archives in the Caribbean. His most recent publications include Decolonizing the Caribbean Record: An Archives Reader (Litwin 2018), and Archiving Caribbean Identity: Records, Community, and Memory (Routledge, 2022) co-edited works with Jeannette Bastian and John Aarons, several book chapters and journal articles on Caribbean archival, cultural, historical, and memory issues.

Stanley is active on the executive of several academic, heritage, and archival professional societies, including the Caribbean’s archival association, CARBICA, and is a member of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion.

Watch this space for full details about Dr Griffin’s presentation which will be released soon.

Loris Williams Memorial Lecture

Hinerangi Himiona (Ngāpuhi and Ngati Toa Rangatira)

Hinerangi is from Ngāpuhi and Ngati Toa Rangatira iwi, she resides in her ancestral rohe of Taiāmai which rises up and is surrounded by volcanic cones between the Hokianga in the west and Pewhairangi (Bay of Islands) in the east. She is a descendant of many signatories to He Whakapūtanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Hinerangi is a highly skilled and experienced project and relationships manager, researcher and facilitator. Her wide-ranging networks span thirty years’ of experience working with people in their communities, senior executives within iwi and central and local government.

Full details about Hinerangi’s presentation will be released soon.

Day 2 Keynote

Michele Leggott

Michele Leggott is a poet and editor with a consuming interest in archives and the poetics of memory. She has published eleven collections of poetry and was the New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007-09. Her archival work includes a monograph on the late poetry of American Modernist Louis Zukofsky and editions of the poetry of New Zealander Robin Hyde, as well as a foray into 1960s New Zealand poetry and a selected edition, with Martin Edmond, of the poems of Alan Brunton. She received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013. In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Michele lives in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland.

Catherine Field-Dodgson (Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Te Aitanga a Mahaki)

Catherine Field-Dodgson is the author of ‘In Full Bloom: Botanical Art and Flower Painting by Women in 1880s New Zealand,’ a 2003 Masters thesis that includes the first detailed study of Emily Harris’s exhibiting practices. She is active in community and environmental organisations and a beginner learner of Te Reo Māori. She is currently researching her 2x great-grandmother Keita Halbert/Wyllie/Gannon and her connections to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa. Catherine lives in Te Awa Kairangi Lower Hutt, Wellington.

In 2025 Te Papa Press will publish Michele and Catherine’s book, Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris.

Closing Keynote - Panel

Anahera Morehu (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kahu)

Anahera Morehu was the Tumuaki of Te Rōpū and President of Library and Information Association NZ Association (LIANZA). In the beginning of 2022, she was appointed Kaihautū (Director Rātonga Māori) at Archives New Zealand before being appointed as Chief Archivist. She is an established leader across the information management sector and across iwi Māori and is a member of the trust board of Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua. She’s the country’s first Māori and wāhine to hold this important statutory role in a permanent capacity.

Anahera will be joined by two colleagues (to be announced soon) involved with PARBICA for a critical conversation around opening the archives.

Facilitator: Simon Froude

Simon Froude is Director-General of National Archives of Australia.Prior to joining National Archives, Simon was Director and State Archivist at State Records of South Australia, where he was responsible for the preservation and accessibility of some of the state’s most important historical records, as well as records and information management, freedom of information and privacy, for the South Australian Government.

As Director-General, Simon is leading National Archives through the next phase of its transformation to ensure it continues as a beacon for best practice management of the official records of the Commonwealth of Australia, and that Australian Government information of enduring significance is secured, preserved and available to government agencies, researchers and the community.

Simon’s driving passion is to improve the accessibility of government records, with a particular focus on improving access to individuals and groups impacted by past government policy. He has extensive experience in archival and records management within the public sector, including at State Records of South Australia and South Australia’s Department of Education and Department of Treasury and Finance.