This week we have attended and presented at the Oceania and Indigenous Trans-national Methods and Practices Symposium focusing on Nation-building in the Global South.
Nation-building in the Global South
An initiative of the Oceania and Global Indigenous Research Hub (Charles Sturt University)
September 11-12th, 2025
Orange, CSU Campus & Hybrid
The symposium brings together expert speakers on First Nations nation-building in the Global South. The program focuses on the important arms of nation-building in the areas of: Language; Inter-cultural and trans-national exchange; Education Governance; Energy and Water sovereignty; Human Rights; and Health and Wellbeing. Each of these arms requires innovative methodologies and data collection to support the diversity of sovereignties in the Global South.
The purpose of the symposium is to highlight existing activities of nation-building as well as new approaches with an emphasis on trans-national and inter-cultural methodologies and data collection.
The 2-day symposium began with a Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony by Uncle Dale Carr.
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| Lynn Williams, Camilla Porsanger, Sharynne McLeod and Uncle Dale Carr |
During the first morning of the symposium were invited to present the following paper
Building the present and the future: Indigenous children’s speech, language and literacy
Sharynne McLeod, Jamie Newman, Christine Sweeney, Sarah Bartlett, Emily-Jane Woodhead, Carolyn Gregoric.
Christine Sweeney from Orange Aboriginal Medical Services, Orange and I presented the paper.
