Our CRITICAL AND SENSITIVE RESEARCH ISSUES SYMPOSIUM - Tangaroa Ki Uta, Tangaroa Ki Tai: Water, Our Future - HAS BEEN POSTPONED.

Please note the NEW DATE.

DATE: 15-16TH NOVEMBER 2010
Venue: Rydges Hotel, Christchurch, New Zealand

We were advised of a report being launched in Wellington by Ministers from the Land and Water Forum, 14th September, and communities we wish to engage with requested postponing the event as they are committed to other significant hui with local government. The Papatipu Rūnanga, who are facilitating this important symposium are a key player and in consultation with them, communities and with the consideration of other events/conferences in this area, we have agreed to postpone to the 15-16th November. We trust this will enable the participation of communities nationally and a range of agencies involved in this critical area.

We apologise if this is an inconvenience, and hope you appreciate the need to change these dates at this stage to ensure we maximise the value of the symposium and the ability to meet its objectives.

For more information on the symposium theme and programme and to register for the symposium; see our symposium page.

Ways of Indigenous Self-Rule: Remaking Nations, Remaking Law

Professor Stephen Cornell, University of Arizona
30th August 2010, 11am to 12 midday

Wharenui, Wynyard Street
The University of Auckland

Drawing on the experience of Native nations in North America, this paper explores the ways that Indigenous peoples are reclaiming the right to govern themselves according to their own designs and putting those designs into practice by developing institutions that respond both to Indigenous cultures and to legal and political constraints. While recognizing that the situation of Maori in New Zealand is distinctive, the paper argues that the North American experience may offer usable ideas for other Indigenous peoples concerned to regain effective control over their own resources, affairs, and futures.

Stephen Cornell is Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration and Policy and Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago. He taught at Harvard University for nine years and for nine more at the University of California, San Diego, before joining the Arizona faculty in 1998. In the late 1980s, Professor Cornell co-founded the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (he continues to co-direct that project today) and in 2000-2001 led the development of the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona. He has spent most of the last 25 years working with Indigenous nations on governance, development, and related issues.

Nau mai, haere mai, all welcome

Contact:
Email info@maramatanga.ac.nz
Ph 09 373 7599 ext. 84220

MAI Review Journal
http://www.review.mai.ac.nz

The August issue is live now!

Total number of articles published = 206
Web hits/day average = over 3000

This issue includes an inspiring paper by a noted Māori scholar who looks back on his life. There are also papers on leadership, essays on the concept of a national Māori university, investigations of Māori first year students at university, of the consumption of traditional food, of the contributions of a scholar of 100 years ago, as well as a study of Māori mourning practice.

A section on Māori and Indigenous Poetry has been added to extend the journal’s reach into ways of knowing and understanding.

Te Kokonga (the workshop corner) offers a selection of papers addressing questions about writing technique, peer mentoring and averting IT disasters.

The Resources section continues to offer access to glossaries for translations and efficient links to: nation-wide repositories of E-theses, the MAI Central portal, a radio link to Hawaii, and a link to Ako Āotearoa others. It also provides a customised Google search that covers the journal and the wider MAI network.

Call for papers

While we have operational deadlines for each issue, we ask contributors to set your own deadline, prepare the paper and submit it as soon as it’s ready.

With best wishes,
The editors

Featured speakers can be viewed at our mediacentre.

Registration for Hākari has closed - we have reached venue capacity.

The latest issue of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga’s AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples is now available.

AlterNative Volume 6, Number 1 is a general issue which includes a range of articles on discipline-focussed approaches to indigenous studies. Shaun Awatere, Maui Hudson, Mere Roberts, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Murray Hemi and Sarah-Jane Tiakiwai examine issues of what constitutes Māori knowledge, or Mautauranga Māori, through ethnicity measurements and embryo research. Jo Smith and Katharina Ruckstuhl look at the case of Ngāi Tahu’s media and how it works to resist the perspectives of dominant culture. 

For Andrejs Kulnieks, Dan Roronhiakewen Longboat and Kelly Young, the question becomes how indigenous cultures can influence curricula development through an approach they call ‘eco-hermeneutics’. Sharing this focus on the classroom is Georgina Stewart, who looks at the language issues in Māori chemistry education. Finally, Susan Chebet-Choge looks at the ongoing issues surrounding linguicide for the Nandi.

A full list of the articles is available by clicking here.
(http://www.alternative.ac.nz/journal/volume6-issue1)
To order your copy of AlterNative and subscribe to future issues, click here. (http://www.alternative.ac.nz/subscribe/)
We welcome submissions at any time.

The July 2010 issue of TE PŪWĀNANGA, the Quarterly Newsletter of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Research is published. Please download the current issue of TE PŪWANĀNGA and view previous newsletter issues (Issues 1 – 24) here. 

Please email info@maramatanga.ac.nz with your name and postal address if you wish to receive a printed copy of TE PŪWANĀNGA.

Conference Attendance Grants (CAG) 2010
Round 2 opens 1 June 2010 – closes 30 June 2010

The Conference Attendance Grant is intended to support researchers and developing researchers wishing to disseminate their research work at national and international conferences leading to the potential publication of their research findings.

The grant should be regarded as partial support only, for attendance at conferences. Applicants are encouraged to seek alternative sources of funding as well. No more than $3,500 will be available per person. The total fund available each round is limited.

Download Conference Attendance Grant application form.

Hākari – A feast of Māori language music, dance and culture