[Commpsych] WA- Reconcilication Seminar-March 4-presented by Prof Craig McGarty

[Anne Sibbel]

Dear All

You are invited to attend a seminar at 6.00 for 6.30pm on March 4 at ECU Mt Lawley, presented by Professor Craig McGarty of Murdoch University and entitled 

Rottnest Island as Black Prison and White Playground: Psychology meets history on the path to Reconciliation

The seminar presents an innovative project led by Indigenous documentary film maker and academic Glen Stasiuk and mentored by Len Collard, Craig McGarty and Kathryn Trees that will use Wadjemup, (as Rottnest Island is known to its traditional Nyungar owners) as a site for exploring the prospects and pitfalls of Reconciliation in Australia. The Aboriginal Prison (and associated facilities) on Rottnest Island represented Australia's biggest black deaths in custody site in the period 1831-1930 and was one of the key mechanisms by which Indigenous Australians were removed from their land in many parts of Western Australia. The island has since been transformed into a recreation area with problematic consequences. What does this transformation mean for contemporary Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians?  Is the past history a barrier to Reconciliation or a platform to working towards it? The project will include the development of a documentary film in which social psychological evidence on themes such as guilt, shame, anger, and the potential for pride in shared achievements will help resource a research unit for the film.  The research is supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Research Development scheme. 

Further information and a map of  ECU Mt Lawley is attached. 

Please contact me if you would like any further information.

Kind regards

Anne Sibbel

Anne Sibbel
Chair
WA Section
APS College of Community Psychologists
ph: 08 9571 2080
mob: 0418 940 848
email: asibbel at westnet.com.au
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