Indigenous Oration 2023

You and your partner/guest are warmly invited to the 2023 Queen’s College Indigenous Oration. We are delighted to have Dr Jackie Huggins AM FAHA as our guest speaker.

Queen’s College – Indigenous Oration 2023
At The Crossroads: Voice, Treaty, Truth
Dr Jackie Huggins AM FAHA

Thursday 7 September 2023

5:30pm arrival for 6pm oration followed by
Drinks and canapés in the Junior Common Room
Business attire
RSVP to Michele Mulder by Thursday 31 August 2023

Onsite parking is not available; Uber, taxi, trams recommended.

Email: rsvp@queens.unimelb.edu.au to Register your Attendance

Dr Jackie Huggins AM FAHA, a member of the Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru peoples, is currently leading the work for Treaty/Treaties in Queensland. In popular demand as a speaker on Aboriginal issues, she is a well-known historian and author, with articles published widely in Australia and internationally. Her acclaimed biography of her mother, Auntie Rita, was published in 1994 and in 2022 her biography of her father, Jack of Hearts: QX11594 was published.

She was the former Co-Chair National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, former member of the National Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Co-Chair Reconciliation Australia, the State Library Board of Queensland and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. She was Co-Commissioner for Queensland for the Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, and for several years was a Judge of the annual David Unaipon Award.

ABOUT THE SUGDEN INSTITUTE
Dr Edward Holdsworth Sugden (1854-1935) was first Master of Queen’s College. It has been said of Sugden that he combined the evangelical zeal of Wesley and the humanism of the university tradition. As such his engagement with Church, university and community through the College was of equal importance to him. One of his friends described him as a man of the world, a man of science, a musical enthusiast and a universal favourite. He was the Master of Queen’s for forty years and an important figure within the life of the University and Melbourne. He was a trustee of the Public Library, the Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria and first chairman of Melbourne University Press.

The Sugden Institute has been established within Queen’s to build the academic profile of the College through increasing the number of visiting academics and encouraging public intellectual debate.

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