ACPACS seminar: From Independentism to the Great Chief Atai

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Date:	Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Time:	11:30am - 1:30pm
Room:	Don Carruthers Room, Level 5, Dorothy Hill Library
UQ Location:	Hawken Engineering Building (St Lucia)
Event Information
Description:	Dr Amanda Macdonald (Research Fellow in School of Languages & Comparative Cultural Studies) will present this talk. In the mid-to-late 1960s, the figure of the Great Chief Ataï was taken up by the Kanak independence cause as its figurehead. Ataï acquired this role for having been credited as the instigator and martial genius of the 1878 multi-front Kanak uprising against the French occupation of the main island of New Caledonia. Drawing on a range of materials, from independentist rags of the early 1970s to official party newsletters of today, from local historiography to bus-shelter art, the paper will sketch the history of Ataï’s twentieth-century career in representation, and examine the increasing representational power of the figure of Ataï in New Caledonian nation-making and sovereignty issues.
URL:	http://www.uq.edu.au/acpacs/index.html?page=45703
Event Category:	Seminars & workshops /
Contact Information
Name:	Ms Anna Nolan
Phone:	69964
Email:	a.nolan@uq.edu.au
Org. Unit:	Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
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