Summer/Winter school on ‘Indigenous Rights, Responsibilities and Ethics (5op)

Arviointiasteikko

H-5

Tavoitteet

This one-intensive week course aims at training students with current theories and policies that guide Indigenous peoples´ rights to their cultural heritage (CH). The course gives some perspectives of the central concepts of Indigenous peoples´ rights, and provides a framework of the interplay between Indigenous peoples’ CH, intellectual property rights regulation and data governance issues, and related ethical considerations. The course addresses the main challenges and developments of new policies and legislation in the field.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. Understand the basics of Indigenous peoples’ rights within the human rights framework, including exercising a right to self-determination;
2. Understand and critically analyse legislations, court decisions, as well as legal texts related to Indigenous rights to their culture;
3. Understand, describe and analyse the impact of digitalization to achieve a fair and equitable balance between protection and access of Indigenous cultural heritage through legal systems such as intellectual property rights;
4. Demonstrate depth and breadth understanding of the need and consequences of the developments of new policies and legislations in the field of Indigenous cultural heritage and traditional knowledge in general and in the digital context in particular;
5. Understand the basic concept of Open Data for digital CH and became familiar with the FAIR and the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance;
6. Know the basic principles of ethical research with Indigenous Societies and being able to apply them in research;
7. Improve research skills in utilising international legal sources, institutions and databases;
8. Improve oral presentations skills (in group).

Toteutustavat

Lectures, self-study, independent research, exercises, individual/group work.

Suoritustavat

1) Mandatory readings
2) Lectures during the intensive week of the course (mandatory attendance)
3) Individual/Group work (oral and written).

The final grade is based on individual/group work (oral and written). The final written version of the individual/group work should be returned no later than three weeks after the last lecture of the course.

Sisältö

The course runs for one intensive week where students will be exposed to a mix of thematic lectures by academic experts as well as by experts working in the field of cultural heritage and Indigenous law outside academia, field visits to key places (e.g. Ministries, patent offices, etc..) and several interactive activities with peers (e.g. group works, presentations, etc..).

Aika ja paikka

The course is scheduled for the Spring 2024.

Oppimateriaalit

• Ballardini, R., Härkönen, H., & Kestilä, I. (2021). Intellectual property rights and indigenous dress heritage: towards more social planning types of practices via user-centric approaches. In M. Corrales Compagnucci, H. Haapio, M. Hagan, & M. Doherty (Eds.), Legal Design: Integrating Business, Design and Legal Thinking with Technology (pp. 82-106). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107269

• Hossain, K., & Ballardini, R. (2021). Protecting Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Through a Holistic Principle-Based Approach. Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 39(1), 51-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2021.1947449

• Hossain, K., 2022, Negotiating Indigenous Rights: From Transnational Networks to Making Room in International Law. In Decolonizing Futures: Collaboration for a New Indigenous Horizons. Maruyama, H., Boersma, M., Charbonneau, L., Colbengtson, T., Gaudet, J. C., Gröndahl, S., Hossain, K., Huss, L., Jornet Aguareles, C., de Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara, M. & Zaman, M. (eds.). Uppsala universitet, (Uppsala Multiethnic Papers; No. 57).

• Grey, S. & Kuokkanen, R. (2019). Indigenous governance of cultural heritage: searching for alternatives to co-management. International Journal of Heritage Studies 26(10), 919-941. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1703202.

• Kwaymullina, Ambelin. 2016. “Research, ethics and Indigenous peoples. An Australian Indigenous perspective on three threshold considerations for respectful engagement.” AlterNative: International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 12(4): 437-449.

• Virtanen, P. K., Keskitalo, P. & Olsen, T. 2021: Contemporary Indigenous Research within Sámi and Global Indigenous studies Contexts. In Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts, 7–32.Leiden: Brill Sense. https://brill.com/view/title/56605

• Carroll, S, et al. 2020. The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance. Data Science Journal, 19: XX, pp. 1–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-042. Free download at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d3799de845604000199cd24/t/6397b1aff7a6fb54defdf687/1670885815820/dsj-1158_carroll.pdf

Esitietovaatimukset

Students (advanced BA and Msc level) from universities or research institutions located either in Finland or in Peru, from the field of law or Indigenous studies. In addition, Indigenous representatives are welcome to apply to the programme.