Date:
Thursday, October 28, 2010 - Saturday, October 30, 2010
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.” Through this theme, the common concerns of the Inuit and the other Aboriginal peoples throughout the world will be explored.
For the conference, IPinCH collaborator Murielle Nagy, Director and editor of Journal Etudes/Inuit/Studies, organized four sessions on Intellectual Property and Ethics.
The first session at 10:30 on October 28, 2010 featured three members of the IPinCH collective:
Murielle Nagy, Université Laval
Access to data and reports after the completion of a research project
Catherine Bell, Université de l’Alberta
Access to and control over information originating from Aboriginal communities in Canada
Natasha Lyons, Simon Fraser University
The Middle Ground: Negotiating the nature and ownership of research outcomes in collaborative projects with Aboriginal communities
The second session at 1:30pm included:
Yves Labrèche, Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface
Name and self-representation among the Labrador Inuit-Metis and the Manitoba francophone Métis: Towards an ethics of reconciliation?
Cunera Buijs, National Museum of Ethnology et Aviaaja Rosing Jacobsen, Greenland National Museum
Repatriation of Indigenous knowledge and intellectual property to East Greenland
The third session at 3:30pm featured two IPinCH team members:
Daryl Pullman, Memorial University et George Nicholas, Simon Fraser University
Intellectual property and the ethical/legal status of human DNA: The (ir) relevance of context
Elisa Hart et William Koolage, University of Manitoba
Past research and new audiences: Are new guidelines needed?
Session four, at 10:30am on Friday, October 29:
Scot Nickels, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami et Cathleen Knotsch, National Aboriginal Health Organization
Inuit-Specific Perspectives on TCPS (ITK, NAHO, and Inuit Land Claims Organizations)
Lene Kielsen Holm, ICC Greenland, Lenore A. Grenoble, University of Chicago and Ross A. Virginia, Dickey Center for International Understanding, USA
Toward a new research ethic for Greenland
IPinCH Steering Committe Member Catherine Bell also contributed a second talk due to a cancellation:
Respect, Rigour and Responsibility: Collaborative Ethics Practices and the Academy
For more information, contact Murielle:
Murielle Nagy, PhD
Director and Editor
Journal Etudes/Inuit/Studies
21 Mont-Carmel, #4
Quebec City (Quebec)
Canada G1R 4A5
Tel.: (418) 694-2214
FAX: (418) 694-1306
email: murielle.nagy@fss.ulaval.ca
web site: http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/etudes-inuit-studies
