RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
Professor David Adams will present the Northern Branch monthly lecture for July entitled “What Counts as Valuable Knowledge Nowadays, and Who Counts It?” at 1.30pm on Sunday 26 July at QVMAG Inveresk.
In our everyday lives we constantly come into contact with many ‘new’ claims to valuable knowledge and often these challenge existing knowledge assumptions. Some contemporary claims gathering prominence include community or place knowledge, first nations knowledge, influencer knowledge, lived experience knowledge, and alternative facts knowledge.
This presentation looks at how more recent knowledge claims express themselves and why they are emerging.
David is currently Professor of Management at the University of Tasmania and has held various senior University, public sector and civic roles, including as the inaugural Social Inclusion Commissioner for Tasmania. He has published in various fields and has a particular interest in the idea of collective knowledge, for example place knowledge. He writes regularly for the local media on public policy issues.
Source of first image: Cover of “The Little Golden Book of Alternate Facts” by Tim O’Brien 2017.
Generously supported by
The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.