Writing for Truth Telling: Dr Jackie Huggins in conversation.

To celebrate this year's NAIDOC theme The Next Generation: Strength, Vision and Legacy, please join us for a conversation with Dr Jackie Huggins as she explores the nuances of truth-telling through published and forthcoming work. Dr Jackie Huggins will discuss the legacy that she and younger generations are creating together, as well as how current projects progress her lifelong contribution to First Nations rights.

Following the conversation, please join us for afternoon tea. This event will be held outdoors, please dress accordingly.

This UQ Arts event is presented by the University of Queensland Art Museum and the University of Queensland Press. This event will talk place at Sun Stadium, UQ Lakes Precinct, adjacent to UQ Lakes Bus Station.

Sun Stadium was commissioned by UQ Arts for the inauguration of the UQ Lakes Precinct in 2024. For the creation of this sundial, artist and choreographer Amrita Hepi worked in collaboration with poet Jazz Money, Dialogue Office’s Christopher Bassi, Five Mile Radius, and Sibling Architecture to realise this commission with sustainably sourced materials.

Dr Jackie Huggins AM FAHA, a member of the Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru peoples. 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, as well as a new edition of her seminal work Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation. 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. She is Director, Indigenous Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Queensland.

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