About the Indigenous Gradate School Collective (featuring several MSU law students).
Friday, March 15, 2013
9am-3:30pm
Kresge Art Center, Rooms 41 and 108
Register for the Symposium Here
There are a few handicap parking places right next to the building otherwise the map can direct you to visitor parking.
Schedule Continue reading
The Agenda is attached. The focus of the Symposium is on strengthening and healing children, families, and the community through tribal-state collaboration. There is no fee for this event.
Like a beautiful Alabama-Coushatta basket,
All things are woven together like a story, with love and prayers.
We are but one strand, but together we are the intricate weave of all generations.
Whatever we do to others, we do to ourselves.
Traditional wisdom, along with tears, laughter and peace, fill the basket;
Connecting all generations in the spirit of respect and unity.
~ Sr. Peacemaker, OtheldaJean Williams ~ 2013
Here.
Can International Law Support Changes to Federal Indian Policy? Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Conference
April 19, 2013 – 8:30 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University
Great Hall, Armstrong Hall, 1100 S. McAllister Avenue, Tempe, AZ 85287
Agenda and registration online at: http://conferences.asucollegeoflaw.com/drip/ Register early!
Contact: Darlene Lester / darlene.lester@asu.edu / 480-965-7715
Sponsored by the Indian Legal Program and the Center for Law and Global Affairs at ASU
Keynote Speaker: S. James Anaya, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Our own Victoria Sweet — the 2013-14 ILPC Fellow — has organized an amazing legal symposium — “Battle for the North: Is All Quiet on the Arctic Front?” She put together an amazing line-up of international scholars — and the leader of the US Coast Guard will unveil a new strategic approach to the Arctic at the conference.
Here is the symposium website. And here is the description:
This symposium will highlight the current concerns and questions surrounding the Arctic. The event will raise awareness of and encourage discussion about various topics such as: international security concerns; indigenous people in the Arctic region; environmental law; regulation, governance and management of Arctic lands and resources; exploration, exploitation, and transportation of oil, gas, and minerals; and the law of the sea.
Papers will be published in the Michigan State International Law Review.
Agenda:
| 5:00 p.m. | Check In: Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, Big Ten C |
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| 5:30 p.m. | Reception |
| 6:00 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:00 p.m. | Opening Remarks Victoria Sweet, Executive Editor, Michigan State International Law Review Bruce W. Bean, Professor and Michigan State International Law Review Faculty Advisor, Michigan State University College of Law, International Law Review Faculty Advisor |
| 7:15 p.m. | Keynote Lawson Brigham, “The New Maritime Arctic: Global Connections and Complex Challenges” |
| 7:45 p.m. | The Impacts of Climate Change Moderator: Jennifer Carter-Johnson, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University College of Law Sumudu Atapattu, “Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples and the Arctic: The Changing Horizon of International Law” Avi Brisman, “Climate Change and the Future of the Arctic: Cultural and Environmental Considerations” |
| 8:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast and Registration: MSU College of Law Castle Boardroom |
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| 8:45 a.m. | Opening Remarks Dean Joan W. Howarth, Dean, Michigan State University College of Law |
| 9:00 a.m. | Keynote Rear Admiral Frederick J. Kenney Jr., “The U.S. Coast Guard and the Challenge of the Arctic” |
| 9:35 a.m. | Arctic Governance Moderator: Michael Lawrence, Associate Dean, Michigan State University College of Law Waliul Hasanat, “Reforming the Arctic Council against Increasing Climate Change Challenges in the North” Tanja Joona, “ILO Convention 69 and the Governance of Indigenous Nordic Lands” Tony Penikett & Adam Goldenberg, “Devolution & Democracy – Equal Citizenship in Canada’s North” Danielle Sibener Pensley, “Subsistence as Resistance: Implications of Environmental Ethics for Property Law” |
| 10:45 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:05 a.m. | Shipping & The Law of the Sea Moderator: Beverly Moran, Visiting Professor, Michigan State University College of Law, (visiting from Vanderbilt University College of Law) Erik Franckx, “The Northern Sea Route Shipping Season 2012: A First Assessment” Donald R. Rothwell, “International Law and Arctic Shipping” Ingvild Jakobsen, “The Adequacy of the Law of the Sea and International Environmental Law to the Arctic Ocean” |
| 12:05 a.m. | Lunch |
| 12:40 p.m. | Keynote Timo Koivurova, “Final Battle over the ‘Final’ Hydrocarbon Province – the Arctic” |
| 1:15 p.m | Indigenous Peoples’ Resources and Lands Moderator: Wenona Singel, Associate Professor, Michigan State University College of Law Dorothee Cambou, “Control over Resources: A Prerequisite for the Realization of the Arctic Indigenous Right to Self-Determination” Tim Heleniak, “The Migration of Arctic Populations” Susann Funderud Skogvang, “Legal Questions Regarding Mineral Exploration and Exploitation in Indigenous Areas: Examples from Sami Areas in Norway” Rutherford Hubbard, “Risk, Rights and Responsibility: Navigating Corporate Responsibility and Indigenous Rights in Greenlandic Extractive Industry Development” |
| 2:25 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 2:45 p.m. | Natural Resources Moderator: Noga Morag-Levine, Professor, Michigan State University College of Law Andrew van Wagner, “A Heating Competition for Unclaimed Resources” Vladimir Gladyshev, “Delimitation Issues: Cutting up the Arctic Pie” Nikolas Sellheim, “The Neglected Tradition? – The Crafting of the EU Seal Products Ban and Commercial Sealing” Betsy Baker, “Governance of the Marine Arctic for Resource Development” |
| 3:55 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 4:15 p.m. | Arctic Security Moderator: John Reifenberg, Professor, Michigan State University College of Law Adele Buckley, “Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Treaty Ratification by Non-Nuclear Weapons States Models Cooperation and Presses Nuclear Weapon States to New Strategy” Natalia Loukacheva, “Polar Law, Arctic Security and Geo-Political Trends” Zhixiong Huang, “Governance of the Arctic: The Role of China” |
| 5:15 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
YouTube has all six hours in three parts.
Description of the symposium:
In this day-long symposium sports writers, scholars, authors, and representatives from sports organizations engaged in lively panel discussions on racist stereotypes and cultural appropriation in American sports.
The symposium explores the mythology and psychology of sports stereotypes and mascots, and examines the retirement of “Native American” sports references and collegiate efforts to revive them despite the NCAA’s policy against “hostile and abusive” nicknames and symbols.
Description of each part. Continue reading
Details here:
Conference registration includes two days of information-packed sessions, an evening reception and networking lunches on both days. ($260.00 early bird registration / $350.00 after March 1, 2013 and on-site.)
See Conference Overview and Draft Agenda for more information.
Choose up to two, three-hour training sessions to attend on the day before the full conference. ($75.00 per session / $100.00 for two sessions)
See Pre-Conference Agenda for more information.
For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Evie Holzer, eholzer@ou.edu
NORMAN – The University of Oklahoma American Indian Law Review, Student Bar Association, Native American Law Student Association, and Native American Studies program present the Overcoming Barriers Symposium with registration beginning at 7:45 a.m. Thursday, March 7, at the College of Law, 300 Timberdell Road in Norman.
This daylong symposium blends the richness of Native American culture with the profound legal landscapes facing America’s tribes. Some of the most renowned scholars and practitioners will exchange their wisdom on resolving intra-tribal conflict and defining jurisdictional boundaries. Symposium participants will also have the opportunity to take a Native American Art tour on display at the OU College of Law and experience musical entertainment by Native American musicians.
Symposium presenters include:
• Kevin Washburn, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
• David Mullon, Staff Director and Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
• Ed Kneedler, Deputy Solicitor General of the United States
• Leroy Sage Not Afraid, Justice of the Peace, Big Horn County, Montana
• Tracy Toulou, Director of the Office of Tribal Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
• Barbara Smith, Chief Justice, Chickasaw Supreme Court
For additional information and to view the full symposium agenda, go to www.law.ou.edu/ailrsymposium or contact Paige Hoster at paigehoster@ou.edu or Chris Thompson at christhompson@ou.edu.
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