Professor Marcia Langton

University of Melbourne

How human are Indigenous people in the human rights discourse

Public lecture co-hosted with Mallesons Stephen Jaques

Wednesday 22 October
Level 50, Bourke Place, 600 Bourke Street, Melbourne
6.00 to 7.30 pm (lecture followed by drinks and light refreshments)
RSVP by 15 October required due to limited seating capacity - castan.centre@law.monash.edu.au or tel 9905 3327

Professor Marcia Langton, AM, is currently Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral fieldwork was conducted in eastern Cape York Peninsula during the 1990s and her experience of the statutory land claim and native title system in this region was informed by a decade of administration and fieldwork pertaining to Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory. She was awarded a PhD from Macquarie University in 2005. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia and a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). She is Chair of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership.