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Open lectures: Getting (over) Recognition? Politics of Rights, Resilience and Resistance

20.4.2016

Open lectures:
Getting (over) Recognition?
Politics of Rights, Resilience and Resistance

Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 13.00-15.15
University of Lapland, Lecture room 16

Welcome, prof. Julian Reid, University of Lapland

Bal Sokhi-Bulley, Dr., Lecturer, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast:
Community Rights or a Right to Community? Rights, Responsibility and Resistance in Modern Britain

David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster:
Indigenous Knowledge and the Anthropocene: Thinking against the Digital

Reetta Toivanen, Finnish Academy Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki:
On the Meaning and Consequences of ‘Translating’ Universal Human Rights Standards: Case Studies in the Arctic

Julian Reid, University of Lapland:
The Indigenous Subject: Dispossessed, Perseverant, Resilient

Tanja Joona, University of Lapland:
Land and Water Discourse in the Finnish Sámi Context – Legal and Political Perspectives

Marjo Lindroth & Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen, University of Lapland:
(Dis)possessing Indigeneity: Critical Readings of Recognition as the Making of Subjects