Speakers
Theme three, day 3
Social Darwinism, history and Indigenous policy
Speaker: Dr Maggie Walter, University of Tasmania, Australia: Misinterpretation, misappropriation and miscegenation: The then and now of social Darwinism for Indigenous Australians
Dr Maggie Walter is a Trawlwoolway woman from Tasmania and teaches and researches at the University of Tasmania with a particular focus on the intersection of social policy, discourses and Indigenous peoples. She publishes regularly on this and other topics and her new book Social Inequality: Discourses, Realities and Futures (co-authored with Dr D. Habibis, Oxford) is due for release in early 2009.
Walter presents frequently at national and international conferences and sits on national committees including the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council (IHEAC) and the steering committee for the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC), currently being conducted by FaCSHIA.
