Seminar and Conversation with Mapuche Professor Elisa Loncon (Chile)

The Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Leadership) together with the School of Humanities and Communication Arts invite you to a seminar by Professor Elisa Loncon.

Elisa Loncon was born in the Mapuche community of Lefweluan, in the Wallmapu, Southern Chile. She is a linguist and an Indigenous rights and languages activist. She holds a PhD in humanities from the University of Leiden and a second PhD in literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She is a Professor in Intercultural Education, Department of Education, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), where she undertakes research on Indigenous methodologies and philosophies and the teaching of Mapuzugun. She is also affiliated with the Center for Indigenous and Intercultural Research (CIIR). In 2021, Elisa Loncon was elected as one of the representatives of the Mapuche people for the Chilean Constitutional Convention, of which she served as elected President during the first period of the Convention. In 2021, she was awarded the René Cassin Human Rights Award from the Basque Government in recognition of her substantial contributions to the defense of human rights. In 2021 she was named in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and one of The Financial Times’ 25 most influential women in the world.

RSVP: j.salazar@westernsydney.edu.au.