Round Table Conference on Indigenous Issues: “The Emerging Landscape of Indigenous Rights”
Centre for Multi-cultural Studies in Law and the Family, University of Buckingham
5 October 2011
Overview:
There are over 300 million indigenous peoples in the world today. They are found in every part of the world—from the Saami peoples in Lapland to indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and North and South America. There has been an increasing focus on the international rights of indigenous peoples since the 2007 approval of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. As the range of topics for this conference demonstrates, contemporary legal issues on indigenous peoples are both old and new. The relationship of indigenous peoples with the state, protection of indigenous rights in expanding global economies, and respect for and the rights in indigenous heritage are highlighted in the presentations at this conference.
A round-table discussion will follow the speakers’ presentations.
Venue: Ian Fairbairn Lecture Hall, Chandos Road Building (see campus map)
Registration begins at 13:00
Opening of the Conference: 13:45
Opening of the conference and introduction: Professor Susan Edwards, Director of the Centre for the Multi-Cultural Studies in Law and the Family.
Opening Address: Honourable Dr Jocelynne A Scutt, Chair of the Conference
Speakers:
Fiona Batt (University of Bristol): “Unbundling the Property/Heritage Rights in the Restitution of Ancient Indigenous Human Remains”
James Roffee (University of Leicester): “Aboriginal Australians, Alcohol and Incest: Discourse Analysis of State Responses”
Dr Sarah Sargent (University of Buckingham): “The Republic of Lakotah: International Legal Personality and Sovereignty after the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”
Dr Valentina Vadi (Maastricht University): “When Cultures Collide: The Protection of Cultural Landscapes and Indigenous Heritage in International Economic Law”
Question and Answer Session: chaired by the Honourable Dr Jocelynne A Scutt
There is no registration fee and attendance is open to anyone who is interested. For further details or information please contact Dr Sarah Sargent at Sarah.Sargent@buckingham.ac.uk
