Program

Registration

WELCOME TO COUNTRY
Yvonne Stewart, Arakwal Elder

WELCOME FROM SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY
The Hon John Dowd AO QC
Chancellor, Southern Cross University

Welcome to Conference (dvd),
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Isabella Choir

KEYNOTE OPENING PLENARY
"Making the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a Reality - Sixty Years On".
The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG
Chair: Professor Bee Chen Goh

Sponsored by Southern Cross University

Refreshments & Launch by Professor Gerard Goggin (University of NSW) of Activating Human Rights and Education by Christopher Newell and Baden Offord (eds). (Download PDF Brochure)

PLENARY TWO
Title: “Crisis in Tibet: Searching for a Workable Solution”
Professor Michael Davis
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chair: Associate Professor Sam Garkawe

Sponsored by the Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross University

Headliners choir

SPECIAL FORUM: "Women's Perspectives on Peace"
Chair: Elisabeth Porter
Adrien Wing, Melissa Lucashenko, Janelle Saffin, Ilana Meallem, Aruna Gopinath, Johanna Qualmann, Jan Barham

[OPEN TO THE PUBLIC]

Sponsored by:

and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Southern Cross University

WELCOME RECEPTION
Welcome by Professor Paul Clark, Vice-Chancellor, Southern Cross University

Sponsored by the Faculty of Business and Law, Southern Cross University

PLENARY THREE
"Global Critical Race Feminism: Race, Gender, and human rights in the US elections"
Professor Adrien Wing (Download Biography PDF)
Iowa University, USA
Chair: Margaret Reynolds

Sponsored by College of Law, Iowa University, USA

Morning Tea

PLENARY FOUR
"Human Rights and the Beijing Olympics"
Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM
Australian Human Rights Commissioner (2000-05);
Director, Equity and Diversity, University of Western Sydney
Chair: Associate Professor Greta Bird

Sponsored by the University of Western Sydney

PANEL SESSION A
Five concurrent sessions

Lunch

PANEL SESSION B
Five concurrent sessions

Afternoon Tea

PLENARY FIVE
"Democracy and Human Rights in Southeast Asia: Rhetoric and Reality"
Dr Aruna Gopinath, HELP University College, Malaysia
Chair: Associate Professor Dale Bagshaw

Sponsored by Hawke Research Institute's Centre for Peace, Conflict & Mediation, University of South Australia

PLENARY SIX
"Activating LGBTI Rights in Indonesia: Reconstructing Our Understanding of Human Rights and Peace"
Dr Dede Oetomo, Airlangga University, Indonesia
Chair: Associate Professor Baden Offord

Sponsored by:

Free time for Dinner at Leisure in Byron Bay

PLENARY SEVEN - SPECIAL JOINT PLENARY
"Shared Concerns in a Region of Conflict - Environmental Cooperation as a Tool for Building Peace "
Ilana Meallem and Mutassim Abu El Hawa
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
Chair: Jaslyn Hall

Sponsored jointly by Daniel Saks, Janie Forbes & family

and the Centre for Peace and Social Justice

Morning Tea

PANEL SESSION C
Five Concurrent Panels

Lunch

PANEL SESSION D
Five Concurrent Panels

Afternoon Tea

PLENARY EIGHT
"New Wars-Old Wars: Demand creative 21st century solutions "
Professor Kevin Clements, University of Queensland
Chair: Professor Mike Evans

Sponsored by Australian Centre for Peace And Conflict Studies, University of Queensland

PLENARY NINE
"Educaring as a response to layered colonial trauma: Australia and East Timor"
Professor Judy Atkinson
Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, SCU
Chair: Professor Adrien Wing

Sponsored by Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University

"Rhythm and Views" Human Rights Concert

Sponsored by:

PLENARY TEN
"Natural Disasters and their Challenges for Human Rights, Democracy and Good Governance"
Professor Raj Kumar, Jindal Global Law School, India & City University of Hong Kong
Chair: Associate Professor Sam Garkawe

Sponsored by the Centre for Peace and Social Justice

Morning Tea

PLENARY ELEVEN
"Human Rights: Our Personal, Political and Professional Quest"
Associate Professor Christopher Newell AM, author, Disability in Australia.
University of Tasmania

This session was to feature a keynote address by Associate Professor
Christopher Newell AM. Like many others in the human rights and scholarly communities worldwide we are very saddened at the news of Professor Newell's untimely death. Accordingly, this session will include a commemoration of Professor Newell's work, and a discussion of the contemporary issues in disability and human rights.

The session will be chaired by Professor Jenny Graham
Speakers will include:
Professor Gerard Goggin (UNSW), Associate Professor Baden Offord (SCU)
Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM, Sally Robinson and Shari Robinson.

Panel Session E (5 concurrent panels)

LUNCH

Panel Session F (5 concurrent panels)

Afternoon Tea

PLENARY TWELVE
Title: "An International Peace Charter"
Professor Bee Chen Goh, Southern Cross University
Chair: The Hon. Janelle Saffin

Sponsored by Centre for Peace and Social Justice

Men Wot Sing

CLOSING PLENARY AND REVIEW
Panel includes: Associate Professor Baden Offord; Stephen Oola; Professor Adrien Wing; Johanna Qualmann.

Sponsored by Faculty of Business and Law, Southern Cross University

LOCAL FILM SNEAK PREVIEW WITH CATHY HENKEL'S “BURNING SEASON”

LAUNCH OF ACTIVATING HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL

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