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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.
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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.
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