Join the School of Humanities and Languages for Practices and Politics of Restoration, the first workshop of the Ecologies of Repair Regeneration and Restoration workshop series to explore the practices and politics of restoration and to answer the questions of repair, regeneration and restoration across contemporary research in the humanities and social sciences.
In the wake of the failed Voice referendum, there has been renewed interest in truth-telling in Australia. This paper will reflect on our recent research exploring attitudes towards, barriers to and enablers of engagement with First Nations histories and community-based truth-telling in Australia. Our findings highlight that First Nations and non-Indigenous people do not always have a shared understanding of what truth-telling involves, what it might achieve or how to go about it. We explore the possibilities and limitations of truth-telling as a form of restorative justice for First Nations peoples.
This paper will discuss two interrelated community-driven initiatives aimed at revitalising the Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u language of north-eastern Cape York Peninsula, Australia. The first project focuses the documentation of the language of landscape on-Country with elder speakers leading the preservation efforts. The second project involves the development of a language learning app, lead by and tailored for Umpila and Ya’u youth living off-Country. Both projects use innovative methodologies and technologies, while also honoring the intrinsic connection between language, kinship, and Country.
Environmental issues raise many challenges for philosophy. This talk will focus on some of the challenges that are posed by the incorporation of a robust account of climate justice into climate transition plans. The first challenge concerns how to conceptualise a contribution to a climate harm and how to determine who is responsible for climate harms. The second concerns how we are to understand climate harms when they are a product of non-climate causes such as poverty. Finally, what are the grounds for arguing for a ‘comprehensive’ or ‘maximal’ conception of justice in relation to climate change.
