Dates and Times
13 September 2022
11:00 - 12:00
Event for
Location
Address: ZOOM
Organiser
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
Speakers
Professor Megan Davis
Enquiry
Sahana Sehgal
Event about:
CDDGG Seminar Series- In Conversation with Professor Megan Davis- The Uluru Statement From the Heart
A part of our seminar series, the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance is inviting you to the following event-
Seminar- In Conversation with Professor Megan Davis- Uluru Statement from the Heart
Tuesday, 13th September 2022, 11 am (AEDT)
Zoom link- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7220752429
"Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation from First Nations to “walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future”. It was issued to the Australian people in May 2017 following almost two years of work. The Uluru Statement calls for structural reform including constitutional change. Structural reform means establishing a new relationship between First Nations and the Australian nation based on justice and self-determination where Indigenous cultures and peoples can flourish, and we all move forward."
Source- https://ulurustatement.org/education/faqs/
This seminar will delve in to the deliberative processes behind the Uluru Statement from the Heart with Professor Megan Davis, the Co-Chair of the Uluru Dialogue.
Speaker Bio:
Professor Megan Davis is the Pro Vice-Chancellor Society (PVCS) at UNSW Sydney. Professor Davis is also the Balnaves Chair of Constitutional Law, a Professor of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law Centre UNSW Law. She is a Cobble Cobble woman of the Barunggam Nation and a renowned constitutional lawyer and public law expert, focusing on advocacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Her work extends internationally, through roles at the United Nations, focusing on global Indigenous rights. In this capacity, she was elected by the UN Human Rights Council to the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples based in Geneva in 2017 and again in 2019 (2019-2022) and served previously as an expert member and Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, UN Headquarters in New York (2011-2016). She is currently the Chair of the Expert Mechanism. Prof Davis is an Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. She is also a member of the Australian Rugby League Commissioner.
We hope to see you there!
UC acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce campus is situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We also acknowledge all other First Nations Peoples on whose lands we gather.