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

Universidad de los Andes, Faculty of Law, Bogota (Colombia)
24– 28 November 2025

Oppimateriaalit

Learning materials and recommended literature

Linkola-Aikio, I.-A., Keskitalo, P., Ballardini, R., & Sarantou, M. (Eds.) (2025). Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76941-2

(More literature will be specified later)

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.

Lisätiedot

This course is part of the studies organised in the context of the project “Digital Paths, Living Memories: A Trilateral Education Network for Indigenous Digital Heritage (VIDA) . In the fall 2025, this course will be implemented as a ”study visit” at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota (Colombia). The study visit will run during 24– 28 November 2025.

There is a selection process for acceptance. Details can be found here: https://ulapland.fi/en/vida/. ONLY STUDENTS ACCEPTED VIA THIS PROCESS CAN ENROL IN THIS COURSE.