Building the foundations for flourishing Indigenous Futures

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).

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Gathering of Indigenous Minds

NPM is committed to holding the 9th Biennial International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC20) in November 2020. The challenges we have all faced together this year has changed the nature of what is possible, but in just five months we will be hosting a unique and online "Gathering of Indigenous Minds".

NPM is proud to announce our now 3-day online international conference for the dates:

Wednesday 18th November - Friday 20th November (NZ Time)

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Indigenous Futures 

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence (NPM) is the founding host of the biennial International Indigenous Research Conference. It is our honour to enable and host this conference to create an international stage for engagement, sharing and future shaping of globally relevant Indigenous led research.The aims of this conference are to:

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2016 International Indigenous Research Conference 

Our November 2016 conference was structured around Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga's key research themes for the next five years;

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2014 International Indigenous Development Research Conference

This conference highlights indigeneity and the multidisciplinary approach used for indigenous development. Presentations and papers address aspects of the following themes central to the realisation of indigenous development: 

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2012 International Indigenous Development Research Conference

The 5th biennial International Indigenous Development Research Conference 2012 was held in Auckland on 27-30 June 2012, hosted by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence. The proceedings are free to download, and include nearly 40 peer reviewed papers from around the world.

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Kei muri i te awe kāpara he tangata kē – Recognising, engaging, understanding difference

This conference discussed strategies for generating social, educational, intellectual, and economic opportunities by building relationships that engage, understand, and accommodate difference to overcome the adverse effects resulting from failure to understand sufficiently the differences among indigenous and non-indigenous communities and societies.

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Te Tatau Pounamu: The Greenstone Door

Following on from our previous Conferences in 2004 and 2006, the Traditional Knowledge Conference 2008, focused on traditional indigenous concepts, values, ideals, models and strategies for sustaining balanced and healthy relationships within and across families, communities, nations, nation-states, local, regional and global borders, territories and environments.

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Indigenous Indicators of Well-being: Perspectives, Practices, Solutions

The 2006 Traditional Knowledge Conference addressed the issues, practices, models and perspectives for protecting, sustaining and nurturing traditional systems of knowledge.

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