About the forum
International Attention to the Historical Trauma of Indigenous Peoples
Transitional justice is a significant global issue today, especially when it comes to the historical traumas imposed on indigenous peoples, drawing even greater attention from the international community. In our country, the Committee on Indigenous Historical Justice and Transitional Justice has commissioned a professional research team to take stock and summarize international discourses on indigenous transitional justice and relevant reconciliation experiences. The team analyzes the transitional justice policies and implementation experiences of various countries, reflecting on and providing policy recommendations based on Taiwan's own experiences.
Discussion on Indigenous Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Experiences
Organized by the National Human Rights Museum and executed in collaboration with the International Indigenous Affairs Center at Dong Hwa University, this forum brings together experts and scholars with experience in indigenous transitional justice and reconciliation from both domestic and international perspectives. The discussions will focus on significant issues related to indigenous transitional justice and substantive reconciliation methods in Taiwan and various countries. The forum aims to reflect on the current national policies and implementation experiences in Taiwan, promote communication and collaboration across various sectors of society, raise awareness among the public regarding the cultural subjectivity, ethnic identity, and transitional justice issues of indigenous peoples in different countries. Additionally, it seeks to facilitate dialogue and exchange on indigenous transitional justice policies between domestic and international contexts.
Promoting the Practice of Transitional Justice for Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples
The main focus of this forum will revolve around museum curation issues, examining how international experiences utilize the social education function of museums to implement transitional justice for indigenous peoples. The aim is to achieve social communication goals through the practical application of indigenous transitional justice, with the expectation that the forum will serve as a significant reference for Taiwan in promoting relevant policy issues.
Forum agenda
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Speakers
Linda Waimarie Nikora
Professor, University of Auckland.
Researcher and academic, Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora teaches Indigenous Studies at the University of Auckland where she is also Co-Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence. Her specialty interests are in the development of indigenous psychologies to serve the interests and aspirations of indigenous peoples. She has been involved in research about Climate Action; Maori flourishing; Māori ways of mourning; ethnic and Māori identity; Māori performing arts; Māori mental health and recovery; social and economic determinants of health; homelessness; relational health; and social connectedness.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand – Te Apaarangi and an Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society.
Her tribal affiliations are Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tūhoe, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Ngāti Pahauwera.
https:lwnikora.wordpress.com
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Emeritus Professors of the University of Waikato
Fellow of the Auckland War Memorial Museum
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (PhD MNZM FAWMM CRSNZ) grew up in Ōhinemutu, Rotorua. Her PhD in cultural psychology (1981) focused on Māori and tourism, stimulating a lifelong passion for indigenous heritage issues. For the last forty years, she has worked in the museum sector as a curator, researcher, critic and governor, and has published extensively. Her books, both fiction and non fiction, include the highly acclaimed Mau Moko: The World of Māori Tattoo (2007) In 2015 she curated the award winning E Ngā Ūri Whakatupu : Weaving Legacies, with a comprehensive catalogue. She has been honoured twice by the Royal Society of New Zealand, and appointed a Fellow of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. In 2022 presented and co-wrote the Sky/Prime documentary television series, “WAHAROA : the Arts of the Pacific”. An Emeritus Professor, she serves as one of three Ruānuku or Venerable Elder Scholar of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, the National Centre for Maori Research Excellence. She continue to write, review and curate exhibitions, and consult in the GLAM sector.
Ry Moran
Associate University Librarian – Reconciliation, University of Victoria.
Ry Moran is Canada’s inaugural Associate University Librarian – Reconciliation at the University of Victoria. His role within UVic Libraries’ focuses on building and sustaining relationships to introduce Indigenous approaches and knowledge into the daily work of the university’s libraries and more broadly across the campus community.
Ry came to this position from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation hosted by the University of Manitoba. Prior to the NCTR, he served with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. On the TRC’s behalf, he facilitated the gathering of nearly 7,000 video and audio-recorded statements of former residential school students and millions of pages of archival records.
Ry currently serves on multiple boards including the Royal British Columbia Museum, Canada’s Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research, and the Canadian Coalition for Digital Heritage. He is a former member of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institution’s. He is a founding member of the multi-year Canadian Reconciliation Barometer study in Canada.
Ry’s life-long passion for the arts is an important part of his life and he continues to write and produce original music. His music can be heard in his original podcast Taapwaywin, and a recent performance series entitled Echo: Memories of the World. He is a guest faculty in Reconciliation and Music at the Victoria Conservatory of Music.
Ry is a distinguished alumnus of the University of Victoria, a former national aboriginal role model and was awarded a Meritorious Service Cross by the Governor General.
He is a proud member of the Red River Métis Nation.
Sadie Heckenberg
Pro Vice Chancellor Aboriginal Leadership (Acting), University of Tasmania.
President of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium (NATSIHEC)
Associate Professor Sadie Heckenberg is the Pro Vice Chancellor Aboriginal Leadership (Acting), the Academic Director Aboriginal Engagement and the Director of the upcoming Indigenous Research Institute at the University of Tasmania. Sadie is the President of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium, sits on the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium Board of Accreditation and the Australian Research Council's College of Experts.
A Wiradjuri scholar, Sadie’s research focuses on Indigenous methodologies, Cultural Safety, protecting Indigenous spoken knowledge and ethical research frameworks. Sadie was a Fulbright Scholar based in the Kamakakūokalani Centre for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa, has been a Columbia University Oral History Institute Summer Fellow, a National Library of Australia Norman McCann Summer Scholar, has held a Confucius China Studies Program Young Leaders Fellowship and was a scholar in the Columbia University International Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Policy. She sits on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, on Universities Australia committees and has held federal government ministerial appointments, representing her passion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. Dedicated to empowering Indigenous youth Sadie sits on the boards of Ember Connect and Black Duck Group and runs a national research project: Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Girls, Changing Communities.
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No. 24, Sec. 1, Hangzhou S. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100, Taiwan
MRT
Zhonghe-Xinlu Line (Line 4), Dongmen, Exit 1 or 2：Walk straight along Xinyi Rd, and go through Jinshan S Rd. Take the right turn to Hangzhou E Rd. Here you will find the main entrance to GIS MOTC Convention Center. (8-10 minutes walking)
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Tamsui-Xinyi Line (Line 2), NTU Hospital, Exit 2：Go straight outside the station and turn right onto Zhongxiao E Rd. Take the left turn onto Ren'ai Rd. At Ren'ai & Hangzhou Rd intersection, here you will find the main entrance to GIS MOTC Convention Center. (13 minutes walking)
Songshan-Xindan Line (Line 3), Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Exit 5：15-20 minutes walking distance from the metro station.
Bus
Ren'ai & Zhongzheng Rd Intersection (to Taipei City Hall)：37, 261, 270, 621, 630, 651, Renai Metro Bus
Ren'ai & Hangzhou Rd Intersection (to Taipei Main Station)：37, 261, 270, 621, 630, 651, Renai Metro Bus
Ren'ai & Hangzhou Rd Intersection：249, 253, 297
Xinyi & Hangzhou Rd Intersection (to Taipei Main Station)：0 East, 20, 22, 38, 88, 204, 588, 1503
Jinou Girls High School Station：38, 237, 249, 297
Section 2, Ren'ai Rd：214, 248, 606, 214, Neihu Technology Park Commuter Bus 2, Neihu Technology Park Commuter Bus 3
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Car
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National Highway 3：From National Highway 3A, take the exit at Xinhai Rd. Take the right turn at Section 3 Roosevelt Rd, and turn right again onto Hangzhou E Rd. Go through Xinyi Rd, then keep left to drive into indoor city parking.
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