Celebrating 20 years of being Aotearoa New Zealand’s only Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) are excited to invite you to join us online from 15 – 18 November 2022 for our 2nd virtual and 10th International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC).
IIRC is a time for reflection, sharing, planning, innovating, getting inspired. Everything about our conference is Indigenous. Hot topics include: climate change, living sustainably, Indigenous rights and wellbeing, Indigenous data sovereignty, Indigenous distinctiveness, and building firm foundations for flourishing Indigenous futures.
Given this is our second online conference, we appreciate that multiple modes of engagement are important to enable participants to ‘plug in’ and experience conference.Engagement modes include – Master classes, premiere keynotes, discussion fora, social connects, live and pre-recorded papers and posters.
Join us to celebrate and acknowledge a uniquely Indigenous-led online international conference designed to shape a promising future for locally inspired and globally relevant Indigenous-led research.
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