Events Around Australia   |  Embassy Events  | International Events

EVENTS AROUND AUSTRALIA

 

Symposium “Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia: Locating Epistemologies, Difference and Dissent”
 

8 - 9 December

The University of Sydney
Old Teachers College, Room 215
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/conferences/index.php/SURCLA/indigenous_knowledges_2011
 

Organised by SURCLA (Sydney University Research Community for Latin America), the symposium will bring together Indigenous educators and intellectuals from Mexico, Argentina and Chile to meet with interested Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators, scholars and activists, as well as non-Indigenous practitioners and allies, to discuss different models and approaches of Indigenous Knowledge and Education in the tertiary sector and beyond.

This project aims at helping educators and researchers in the Higher Education sector of Australia and Latin America to identify opportunities for integrating in their research and teaching and learning relevant aspects of Indigenous Knowledge in the areas of culture, education and sustainability.

Argentine academics participating in this symposium are Mrs. Claudia Briones from CONICET (National Council on Scientific and Technological Research) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas) as a panellist in the “Government Policy, Self-determination and Indigenous Peoples” session and Mrs. Fabiana Nahuelquir from the Research Institute of Cultural Diversity and Processes of Change, National University of Rio Negro (Instituto de Investigaciones en Diversidad Cultural y Procesos de Cambio, Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro) as a panellist in the “Developing Knowledges From Inside Indigenous Cultural Spaces” session.

For more information on this symposium and to register online please refer to the above mentioned website.

 

---

 

EMBASSY EVENTS

 

Argentine Film Festival

Manning Clark Centre
Australian National University

Thursday 6 October, 6:30pm
La Antena [Antenna] (2007)

Thursday 13 October, 6:30pm
Luna de Avellaneda [Moon of Avellaneda] (2004)

Thursday 20 October, 6:30pm
Gatica, el Mono [Monkey Gatica] (1993)

The Embassy cordially invites our compatriots as well as general public to the screening of these films. All  films are in Spanish with English subtitles. Admission is free.

 

The screenings will be followed by light food and beverages.

Top

---

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

 

IV International Children and Adolescents Drawing and Painting Exhibition "Enrique Urcola"

 

The IV International Children and Adolescents Drawing and Painting Exhibition is organized by the Enrique Urcola Museum with the support of the Lincoln City Council and aims to promote the new generation’s creative expressions as the basis of international cultural exchange in favour of understanding and union amongst nations.

The competition is open to children from all over the world who were born after the 30th of August, 1995. Topic is free and competitors may choose watercolours, temperas, acrylics, crayons, pastels or ink. Each competitor may submit any number of entries. Please note that the size of each entry should not be less than 35 x 45cm and more than 50 x 70cm. All postal costs will be covered by the participants. At the back of the drawing/painting indicate in block letters (English or Spanish) title of the entry, competitor’s name and surname, sex, age, date of birth, nationality, full postal address, email and a certificate from a parent or a teacher that the entry is an original, unaided work. All entries to be send the following address: Museo Enrique Urcola, Avenida 9 de Julio 260 (6070), Lincoln (B), Buenos Aires, Argentina. The last day for the receipt of the entries will be 30th of August 2010. No entry will be returned.

The entries will be judged by the museum authorities, plastic artists and well-known people from children’s Art Institutions. All competitors whose entries will be selected for the exhibition will receive an honour certificate and a prize.

The exhibition will take place at the Enrique Urcola Museum from July 2011 until November 2011 and could be visited through Internet at www.museourcola.org.ar from August 2011. Currently, you can view previous (the third) exhibition.
 

Top