Programme

Sweet as? conference programme

SATURDAY 9 JUNE
Exploring dominant culture in Aotearoa/New Zealand: blindness and illusion

Registration: 9.00am

Morning: Dominant culture and the construction of pākehā ID' or is it 'kiwi ID' ??

Keynote speaker: Avril Bell Becoming Pākehā: dominance and its costs

Panel:

• Nigel Murphy: Race and the construction of New Zealand’s national identity 1890-1907
• Jacob Otter: (Re)Doing whiteness in the pursuit of justice in Aotearoa
• Will Christie: "Native Pākehā": desire and power at work in dominant constructions of ethnicity

Lunch (provided*): 12.30-1.30

Afternoon: White privilege and dominance

Keynote speaker: Wong Liu Shueng: racism, angst, culture, experience

Panel:

• Meng Zhu: Activism and being Chinese on colonised land
• Toa Waaka: Re-enacting te tiriti to its rightful place in the mainstream
• Emet Degirmeci: multiculturalism- what for?

Close: 4.30pm

Conference dinner*: 6.30pm

SUNDAY 10 JUNE
Beyond dominant culture: creating new dynamics

Start: 9.00am

Morning; Politics of identity

Keynote speaker: Moana Jackson: The politics of identity

Panel:

• Danny Butt: leaving New Zealand to become local
• Sekhar Bandyopadhyay: Politics of multiculturalism and the minorities
• Athena Gavriel: More than food and dancing girls: national identity, what’s in it for me?

Lunch (provided*): 12 noon - 1.00pm

Elizabeth Kerekere and Gay Puketapu-Andrews: Identity continuum activity

Afternoon: Ways forward: envisioning future paths

Panel:

• Suzanne Menzies-Culling: Building a road to freedom
• Teresia Teaiwa: Niu means coconut: Pacific ways of thriving as minorities within dominant cultures
• Mervin Singham: a new paradigm for a multi-ethnic Aotearoa/New Zealand
• Hannah Ho: crumbs off a dominant table: some pitfalls of “dots not joining syndrome”

Discussion and closing

Close: 4.30pm

* Lunches, dinner, and morning and afternoon teas are provided. Costs are included in the registration fee.