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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Hypatia Sans Pro Semibold" size=2>Dear
All</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Hypatia Sans Pro Semibold" size=2>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
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<DIV><FONT size=2><EM><FONT face=Verdana>Rottnest Island as Black Prison and
White Playground: Psychology meets history on the path to
Reconciliation</FONT></EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face="Hypatia Sans Pro"><STRONG>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.
<BR></STRONG><BR></FONT><STRONG><FONT face="Hypatia Sans Pro Semibold">Further
information and a map of ECU Mt Lawley is attached.
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Hypatia Sans Pro Semibold" size=2>Please contact me if
you would like any further information.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Hypatia Sans Pro Semibold" size=2>Kind
regards</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Hypatia Sans Pro Semibold" size=2>Anne
Sibbel</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Hypatia Sans Pro Semibold" size=1><EM>Anne
Sibbel<BR>Chair<BR>WA Section<BR>APS College of Community
Psychologists</EM></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Hypatia Sans Pro Semibold" size=2><EM><FONT size=1>ph:
08 9571 2080<BR>mob: 0418 940 848<BR>email: </FONT></EM><A
href="mailto:asibbel@westnet.com.au"><EM><FONT
size=1>asibbel@westnet.com.au</FONT></EM></A><BR></DIV></FONT></STRONG></BODY></HTML>