Professor Mason Durie - abstract

Professor Durie is giving a keynote address on Monday 3 November. His topic:

Global colonisation, the Kiwi tradition, and the public good.

Among other challenges, New Zealanders must face the double edged prospect of global colonisation. On the one hand being swept up in a global avalanche will create new opportunities for the nation and for those who want to explore new frontiers. But on the other, global inundation will challenge the substance of what is generally known as the Kiwi tradition. Being part of the globe while also being grounded in ethos of Aotearoa requires a type of public good leadership that is attuned to the landscape, its peoples, their histories, their aspirations, and the inevitable to and fro from an increasingly abstract construct masquerading as the globe.

Mason Durie to speak at Poropitia

Professor Mason Durie, keynote
Mason Durie is a member of the Rangitane, Ngati Kauwhata, and Ngati Raukawa tribes. He has a medical background as a specialist psychiatrist.

From 1986-1988 he was a Commissioner on the Royal Commission on Social Policy and was appointed to the chair in Maori Studies at Massey University in 1988. He is currently Professor of Maori Research and Development and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Maori) at Massey University. He chairs Te Kahui Amokura, the Maori Standing Committee of NZVCC and leads the Guardians Group of Secondary Futures. In addition he is on the governing body of Te Wananga o Raukawa, a tribal tertiary education institution based at Otaki.