Please feel free to drop in tomorrow (Jan 20th) for this Friday noon lecture with former Ho-Chunk Nation president Jon Greendeer and the Thundercloud Singers in Education Bldg large classroom L196. If interested, there are 9 seats left in this ONE-CREDIT seminar.
We want to invite you to please attend online our “GLOBAL INDIGENEITY AND SUSTAINABILITY” seminar inauguration connecting via video streaming offered with the link: http://go.wisc.edu/h9gs1x from UW-Madison.
The seminar is offered by the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies hosted by Alberto Vargas, Associate Director of Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies affiliated to the Nelson Institute, and coordinated by Reynaldo Morales, Doctoral Candidate and Project Assistant of the Institute for Regional and International Studies.
All sessions from January 27 will be held at Education Building Rm L150. Video streaming will be available at http://go.wisc.edu/x9dw46 for online participants and guests anywhere in the world.
Please see attached the last updated seminar calendar with all presentations outlined.
We are honored this year by an amazing panel of faculty and researchers who have extensive international experience in work related to Indigenous Peoples around the world from different disciplines. We welcome your participation, comments and questions.
Spring 2017 seminar guests include:
- Prof. Richard Monette (Turtle Mountain Chippewa Nation)
- Dan Cornelius (Oneida Nation)
- Prof. Patty Loew (Bad River Ojibwe Nation)
- Mike Dockry (Citizen Potawatomi Nation).
UW-Madison Course guide listing — Env 402 – lecture 10: https://public.my.wisc.edu/portal/f/u124l1s4/p/CourseGuide-Browse-Courses.u124l1n31/detached/render.uP?pCm=view&pP_courseID=022835&pP_subjectId=360&pP_topicId=0&pP_action=courseDetail&pP_termCode=1174
Welcome to Global Indigeneity and Sustainability Seminar Spring 2017.
SEMESTER CALENDAR
FRIDAY JANUARY 20
Inauguration. Jon Greendeer – Former President of the Ho-Chunk Nation
Opening ceremony at the center of Dejope, Ancestral Homeland of the Ho-Chunk Nation. Welcome to the discussions about the international Indigenous reconnection.
Aaron Bird Bear – UW-Madison School of Education Assistant Dean – UW Madison Native Nations Workgroup.
Alberto Vargas, LACIS – Environmental conservation and natural resource management in Latin America. An indigenous perspective to the interactions of federal, state, and local actors in the sustainable use and conservation of tropical forests by local communities in Quintana Roo, in southern Mexico. The discussion of sustainable development in indigenous contexts.
Reynaldo Morales, Doctoral Candidate Curriculum & Instruction School of Education, and Environmental Resources Doctoral program at Nelson Institute for Environmental Research. Topic: Cross Pollination of Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
FRIDAY JANUARY 27
Kalani Souza – Olohana Foundation, Hawaii. Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Pacific Islander. Food Forests. Phenology. Fod Sovereignty in the Indigenous Pacific Islander community.
Bob Gough – Secretary of for the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy. Intertribal projects to fight Climate Change. Technology and Education. Businesses and investment opportunities for
indigenous communities around renewable energy. Land and Sovereignty, Economics and Institutions.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3
Eve Emshwiller – UW Madison Department of Ethnobotany. Evolution and conservation of diversity of crop plants and their wild relatives under human influence, integrating systematic
botany, ethnobotany, and conservation genetics. Research about cultural significance about the Oca potato for the diet and farming system of millions of Quechua and Aymara subsistence farmers in the Central Andes. Technology and Human Behavior, Perceptions and Attitudes
Lea Zeise and Laura Manthe – Oneida Nation of Wisconsin – The international Corn Braiding and Corn breeders exchange. US, Mexico, Latin America.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10
Ligia Lopez – University of Melbourne School of Education, Australia. Globalization and Indigeneity. Cases Latin America and Australia
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17
Alfonso del Rio – UW-Madison Department of Horticulture. The importance of
genetic diversity for climate change. The experience of the International Potato Center in Cuzco, Peru, as well as in Africa and Central America.
Filiberto Penades – Belize – Director of Center for Engaged Learning Abroad – Struggles for indigenous land rights in Latin America. Cultural exchange experiences in Belize. Indigenous youth leadership. Land and Sovereignty
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24
Alan Turnquist – UW Madison Agroecology Program. Research experience in Indigenous communities in Nicaragua, particularly around community organization and agroecology in the context of food sovereignty and community development.
FRIDAY MARCH 3
12:15 – 12:35 pm Christina Ewig – University of Minnesota. Social policy, social movements and democracy in Latin America. When and how Indigenous peoples – including indigenous women – have achieved substantive representation in three Latin American countries: Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
12: 45 – 1:55 pm William Gartner – UW-Madison Department of Geography, Indian agriculture and land- use in Menominee and South America. The size and spatial organization of the native agricultural communities and the implications for the cultural and ecological historical comparisons of different regions in North, Central and South America in the broader interest of sustainability.
FRIDAY MARCH 10
Ian Baird – Geography – Issues of Indigeneity in South East Asia, Indigenous perspectives and solutions related to sustainability, food sovereignty, forms of sovereignty, use of natural resources, land tenure, and the political relation with states to gain recognition and protection.
FRIDAY MARCH 17
Richard Monette and Dan Cornelius – Indian Law, Sovereignty and Self-determination. US Indian Federal Law and Indigenous International Law. Food Sovereignty, Educational Sovereignty. Legal issues for Indigenous Peoples around the world. Food Sovereignty and Seeds Sovereignty.
FRIDAY MARCH 24
Irwing Goldman – UW-Madison Department of Agriculture and Horticulture
Seeds Sovereignty. Cases of Indigenous Seeds around the world. The protection of Indigenous Genetic Resources.
FRIDAY MARCH 31 – Spring Recess
FRIDAY APRIL 7
Patty Loew – UW Madison Global Health and Tribal Media and Environmental Education, Life Sciences Communication in indigenous contexts. US Indian Country, Africa and Latin America.
Kyle White (Michigan State University. Potawatomi Nation) & Marielena Huambachano (Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University) – Moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples and the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and climate science organizations. Updates about Climate Change actions from Geneva and New York UNFIP.
FRIDAY APRIL 14
Lori di Prete Brown – UW-Madison – Global Health Institute and its interdisciplinary initiatives related to global microenterprise and women’s wellbeing in different indigenous communities in Africa and Latin America. New paths for health practitioners in global health around the world.
FRIDAY APRIL 21
Peter Swift – UW Madison Southeast Asian Studies – Issues of Indigeneity and Land Grabbing in the Mekhong River Basin. The struggles from farmer communities in South East Asian to corporate agricultural concessions. Issues of cultural identity and cultural representation. Land and Sovereignty.
Pao Vue – University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hmong Peoples from Laos. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wildlife hunting among the Hmong in Laos. Hmong people’s relationship to the land in Laos.
FRIDAY APRIL 28
Mike Dockry – Northern Research Station, Strategic Foresight Group University of Minnesota. Indigenous Forestry in the Americas: Environmental Histories in Bolivia and Wisconsin. Natural
Matt Earley – Global Fair Trade networks among indigenous societies and communities around the world.
FRIDAY MAY 5
UW-Madison Native Nations Workgroup report
Friday Course closing: Alberto Vargas, Reynaldo Morales