Following Sharing Truth: a Vision for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s National Research Centre, last March's fact-finding forum where IPinCH Project Director George Nicholas was an invited speaker, the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission of Canada is now calling for Submissions to host a National Research Centre on residential schools.More »
An exploratory workshop on Indigenous Trade in Cultural Heritage was organized by the University of Lucerne's i-call: International Communications and Art Law Lucerne.
Several members of the IPinCH collective gave talks or participated as discussants, including Catherine Bell, Rosemary Coombe, Maui Solomon and Wend Wendland.
The College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada are cosponsoring the conference, "Community-Engaged Scholarship: Critical Junctures in Research, Practice and Policy" on November 4-5 in Guelph, Ontario Canada. Abstracts for oral papers and poster presentations are due Sept 3. Details at http://criticaljunctures.caMore »
The Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) and DIALOG, the Research and knowledge network relating to Aboriginal peoples, will host the 17th Inuit Studies Conference at the UQAT First Peoples Pavilion on the Val-d’Or campus, Québec, Canada, under the theme “The Inuit and the Aboriginal World.” ThroMore »
Finding ways of ‘protecting’ the knowledge and heritage of indigenous peoples has become a significant issue in international law and policy-making, engaging numerous United Nations bodies (the Biodiversity Convention, WIPO, UNCTAD, UNESCO, WTO as well as the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples), NGOs and indigenous activists.More »
Keynote Speaker: Jean O'Brien (Ojibwe), University of Minnesota professor and author of Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England
Friday evening celebration with Joseph and Jesse Bruchac (Abenaki)More »
The 2010 Anthropology Methods Mall <http://www.qualquant.net/training/> is online. This site has info about five, NSF-supported opportunities for methods training in cultural anthropology.More »
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is working on a strategy to develop, manage and make known its extensive Aboriginal documentary heritage collection.More »
The Canadian Panel on Research Ethics (PRE) has released for further comment its Revised Draft 2nd Edition of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS):
Identity Crisis: Archaeology and Problems of Social Identity
This 42nd Annual Chacmool Conference is hosted by the Chacmool Archaeological Association and the Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary.
More information can be found at: http://arky.ucalgary.ca/chacmool2009/
Early registration is now open for an international workshop: Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: New Approaches to the Social, Political, and Religious Impact of Public Heritage in the 21st Century
organized by Elizabeth S. Chilton and Neil A. SilbermanMore »
Coast Salish artist and IPinCH logo creator, lessLIE, will be participating in a show at the Alcheringa Gallery in Victoria with the opening November 7, 2009 at Mungo Martin House. Another Coast Salish artist and five artists from New Guinea are also in the show.
The show premiered at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery:More »
Appropriating the past: The Use and Abuse of Cultural Heritage
Durham University, UK
This two-day conference should be of wide appeal to archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, lawyers and others with an interest in the ethical principles and problems associated with the concept of cultural heritage. The meeting will open with four invited lectures to introduce the conference theme and relate it to the specific aims and methods of the new Centre.More »
Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
