2019 Speaker Series

Wānanga as a Māori Research Methodology

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Wānanga as a Māori Research Methodology Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 11/22/2019 - 17:38

Wānanga is becoming an increasingly common practice utilized by Māori researchers today, with deep roots in Māori and iwi tikanga, culture, and rituals of learning and knowledge transmission. There is a small body of writing on wānanga focused on both traditional Whare Wānanga and the more recent establishment of equivalent modern day Māori tertiary institutions. While this scant literature generally explores wānanga as indigenous schools of learning, there is even less available work on wānanga as a research method. Nevertheless, Māori have been using wānanga explicitly as a part of their research for some time, but this writing is scattered usually in the methodology sections of various theses and other studies. This paper provides a discussion of the increasingly popular use of wānanga as a methodological practice noting some of this existing work. It offers a brief overview of the definitions and traditional roots of wānanga, and then draws on two specific iwi case studies to explore how wānanga works methodologically. This presentation is based on a written paper that we are about to have published.

Dr Rangimārie Mahuika is a Fulbright Visiting scholar of Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Ngāti Whakaue and Te Rarawa descent. She has an interdisciplinary background, having trained as both a Lawyer and an elementary school teacher in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Rangimarie has completed a Masters in Education and taught Kaupapa Māori Research Theory and Methods at Te Kura Toi, Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato. She has also completed a Doctorate, focusing on indigenous governance within the tribal nation of Ngāti Rangiwewehi at Te Piringa Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato. Rangimārie has been fortunate to be involved in a wide range of research projects within her own tribal community and is passionate about the potential Indigenous ways of knowing, being and governing hold for transforming and healing our world.

Dr Nēpia Mahuika is of Ngāti Porou descent. He is chair of the Māori historians’ collective of Aotearoa, and Convenor of History at the University of Waikato. He is a Fulbright scholar and President of the National Oral History Association of New Zealand. His most recent book, Rethinking Oral History and Tradition (OUP) challenges the Western dominated field of oral history, and he has just been awarded the inaugural Judith Binney Fellowship 2019 to write A History of Makutu (“witchcraft”) in Aotearoa.

Friday, December 6th in Hellems 199 from 3:00-4:30PM * please visit our facebook page for a live recording of the presentation.

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Alexei Tsykarev Presents, Indigenous Peoples and Russia: A Struggle for Sustainable Development & Cultural Diversity

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 20:15:39 +0000

Alexei Tsykarev Presents, Indigenous Peoples and Russia: A Struggle for Sustainable Development & Cultural Diversity Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/07/2019 - 13:15

Karelian, Uilta, Mordva, Sami, Nenets, Aleut, Mari, and Evenk. These are only a few of tens of indigenous peoples living in Russia. Each maintains resilient lifeways in the face of challenges imposed by national government and global economics. Yet the struggles of indigenous peoples in Russia remain largely unknown to people in the West. This presentation offers an opportunity to learn about these communities and their issues through the lens of the indigenous peoples’ human rights framework, toward greater understanding, solidarity, and collaboration going forward.

Indigenous peoples in Russia are grouped among 47 so called “small-numbered” indigenous peoples and many larger indigenous populations, which inhabit vast territories of the Arctic, Siberia, Caucasus and the Far East. Despite constitutional protection of their rights, indigenous peoples in Russia face many of the struggles common to their counterparts around the world: economic disadvantage, industrial exploitation of their lands, lack of participation in decision-making, loss of languages and culture.

The gap between formal recognition of indigenous peoples and their struggle on the ground pervades the Russian indigenous experience. The Russian national government has adopted a Strategy for the Sustainable Development of Indigenous Peoples and is the first country to establish a National Steering Committee for the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages. But why are indigenous peoples’ rights still mostly declaratory and hardly implementable? The presentation will address this question, touching upon climate change and business and human rights aspects, along with examples of community-led initiatives and good practices of preservation cultures, languages, traditions and livelihoods.

This presentation will address the socio-cultural impact assessment, Karelian Language House and Finno-Ugric Capitals of Culture. We will also discuss the difference between small-numbered and other indigenous peoples in Russia, as well as the impact of borders on the lives of communities, and opportunities for comparative research and academic collaboration going forward.

This event will be hosted at HALE 270 from 5:00-7:30pm on March 19th, 2019

About Alexei Tsykarev
Aleksei Tsykarev is a current member and former Chairperson-Rapporteur of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a subsidiary body of the UN Human Rights Council. He also serves on the International Steering Committee for the UN’s 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, led by UNESCO. Tsykarev holds a Master of Linguistics from Petrozavodsk State University, in Russia, and his academic publications focus on indigenous peoples’ rights, particularly in the areas of language and culture. In Spring 2019, he is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Colorado in the United States. A lifetime activist for the rights of indigenous peoples in Russia, Tsykarev previously led the International Youth Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples, and currently chairs the Center for Support of Indigenous Peoples and Civic Diplomacy «Young Karelia». He advises global institutions, including the World Bank, as well as think tanks and scientific organizations, regarding indigenous peoples’ rights. Tsykarev has been active in a range of indigenous organizations, and has participated in regional and international forums, including the World Conference on Indigenous Issues, World Conference on Youth, the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples, and the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus. Tsykarev has coordinated a number of international projects in the sphere of human rights, culture, and civic diplomacy, and serves on advisory councils to government ministries and offices. Tsykarev lectures on indigenous peoples and human rights at universities around the world, as well as in various bodies of the United Nations.

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Coll Thrush Presents, Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of the Empire.

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Coll Thrush Presents, Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of the Empire. Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/01/2019 - 16:49

Professor Coll Thrush is a Graduate of Fairhaven College at Western Washington Univeristy and the University of Washington,
Coll Thrush is professor of history at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in unceded Coast Salish territories,
and associate faculty at UCB's Institute for Crtiical Indigenous Studies. He is also a visiting professor at the University
of Kent and the University if East Anglia in the UK. His most recent book is Indigenous London, which examines that city's history
through the experience of Indigenous travelers - willing or otherwise - from territories that became the US, Canada, Australia and
New Zealand. During the 2013-2014 academic year, he was a visiting fellow at the institute for Historical Research of the
University of London and the Eccles Centre Fellow in North American Studies and British Library.
March 19th, 2019 at Norlin Library Room M549 (CBIS) from 5:00-6:30PM
Light Beverages and Hors'd'oeuvre's will be provided.

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Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the United States

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Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the United States Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/01/2019 - 16:49

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