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Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

A room full of Team Members, Students, Partners, Advisors, Community Participants, Steering Committee Members, and Guests listen attentively to presentations on the second day of the conference.

Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

Heather Jones, Paula Banks, and Sheila Greer, co-developers of the “Yukon First Nations Heritage Values & Resource Management” Case Study, spoke on the incorporation of Yukon First Nations culture and values in heritage management.

Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

One of two panels of Working Group Co-Chairs presenting on their group's accomplishments and plans: (l to r) Solen Roth, Daryl Pullman, Rosemary Coombe, Lena Mortensen, Brian Noble, John Welch, and Alison Wylie.

Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

IPinCH Students take some time for themselves on the second night of the conference to  gather for dinner, drinks, and deep conversation about their interests. Such gatherings have become an important IPinCH tradition.

Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

Isobelle Campbell (Mannum Aboriginal Community Association) and Amy Roberts (Flinders University) provide an overview of the Ngaut Ngaut Interpretive Project Case Study in South Australia, which they co-direct.

Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

Scenes from the IPinCH Midterm Conference

Project Director George Nicholas and Asipa Zhumabaeva, Director of the Jailoo Community Based Tourism Association in Kyrgyzstan, outside the Musqueam Cultural Centre where the Sunday night feast was held.  

 

Second Day Audience Members
YFN Contingent
Working Group Co-Chairs
IPinCH Student Gathering
Ngaut Ngaut Case Study
GN and Asipa

Welcome

Welcome to the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage home page. This project represents an international, interdisciplinary collaboration among more than 50 scholars and 25 partnering organizations embarking on an unprecedented and timely investigation of intellectual property (IP) issues in cultural heritage that represent emergent local and global interpretations of culture, rights, and knowledge. Our objectives are:

  • to document the diversity of principles, interpretations, and actions arising in response to IP issues in cultural heritage worldwide;
  • to analyze the many implications of these situations;
  • to generate more robust theoretical understandings as well as exemplars of good practice; and
  • to make these findings available to stakeholders—from Aboriginal communities to professional organizations to government agencies—to develop and refine their own theories, principles, policies and practices.

We invite you to explore our website and to keep track of this project as it develops.

IPinCH Community-based Initiative Spotlight: The Inuvialuit Living History Project

 

"Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History"

Kate Hennnessy and Natasha Lyons

This project is focused on a little-known collection of objects housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. and the descendant community interested in learning about it.More »

File attachments: 
application/pdf iconinuvialuit_smithsonian_report_2009-2011_final_draft.pdf

IPinCH News

IPinCH Mid-term Conference (Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2011)

Over the course of four days this fall, IPinCH team members, advisors, students, and partners gathered to celebrate the completion of the first half of the project, and to refine plans for the future. The gathering of the members of the IPinCH collective generated excitement, ideas and connections to carry us into the second, more analytical phase of our research together. More »

IPinCH Associate Melissa Baird Accepts Mini-Post-doctoral Fellowship

Melissa Baird’s Fellowship project “It’s All about the Land”: The Intersections of Cultural and Environmental Heritages [1] explores knowledge production about non-Western groups by Western "experts," through cultural landscapes and heritage politics. Melissa will use a Critical Heritage Studies (CHS) framework for analysis of two IPinCH case studies to examine how power and knowledge intersect with the practice, interpretation, and management of heritage. CHS includes insights from studies that encompass new directions in environmental studies, anthropology, history, public policy, philosophy, and law.More »

Ziibiwing Cultural Center and 'ezhibiigaadek asin' (Sanilac Petroglyph Site) Visit

Let Us Tell You Our Story'Ezhibiigaadek asin' Written on Stone
The Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways interprets ezhibiigaadek asin and presents recreations of ancestors carving the teachings. 

Following the World Archaeological Congress' "Indigenous People and Museums: Unravelling the Tensions" InterCongress in Indianapolis, members of the IPinCH team were invited to the Ziibiwing cultural center in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. They were given the honour of viewing the nearby heritage site ezhibiigaadek asin ("Written on Stone"), otherwise known as the Sanilac Petroglyphs. This important location is the focus of the IPinCH community-based initiative co-developed by Shannon Martin and William Johnson, director and curator, respectively, of the Ziibiwing Center, and Sonya Atalay, Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Indiana University, and Anishinabe Ojibwe from Michigan. 

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New Project Ethnographer for IPinCH

Alexis Bunten

The IPinCH Steering Committee is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexis Bunten is joining the IPinCH collective as our new Postdoctoral Fellow. Alexis will be starting her research as IPinCH project ethnographer this summer once she has completed other commitments.More »

IPinCH Community-Based Heritage Research Workshop, October 15 and 16, 2010


October Workshop Attendees in front of poles across from Chief Joe Mathias Community Centre  
IPinCH Community-Based Heritage Research Workshop participants in front of poles across from the Chief Joe Mathias Community Centre

The Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation) welcomed Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants from across North America and Japan to their Elder’s Centre and Chief Joe Mathias Community Centre, nestled at the foot of Grouse Mountain near Vancouver, for our IPinCH Community-Based Heritage Research Workshop in October, 2010. From the welcoming remarks and prayer given by Hereditary Chief Janice George to the closing by Elder Audrey Rivers, refreshments flowed and all our conference needs were met. Skwxwú7mesh know how to treat guests.More »

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