Session 11 Joanie Buckley, Oneida Nation Business Development Perspectives of indigenous businesses, trade relations with indigenous communities and cooperatives in Latin America. Fair trade models. (Economics, Human Behavior, Perceptions and Attitudes) Matt Earley Global Fair Trade networks among indigenous societies and communities around the world.
Session 10: Revitalization of Land Based Knowledge Among Indigenous Peoples Paul Robbins, UW- Madison - Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies “Producing wildlife: reconciling biodiversity, commodity production, and labor rights in India”. (Land and Sovereignty, Natural Environment) Filiberto Penades, Director of Engaged Scholarship and Service Learning, Center for Engaged Learning Abroad, Belize Struggles for indigenous…
The seminar series will promote opportunities for faculty, students, tribal and other surrounding communities to engage in this international exchange of knowledge about key concepts and intersections of Global Indigeneity and Sustainability. The series and discussions will be framed by and based around the SDI theoretical model of sustainability. Click the link below to…
Session 9 Armando Muyolema – UW-Madison Preservation of the Quechua language and the survival of the Andean world. (Institutions, Human Behavior, Perceptions and Attitudes) Gioconda Coello – UW Madison - East Asia Networks of Care. The connection of Quechua language and Buddhist philosophy in environmental education at the global level. (Institutions, Human Behavior, Perceptions…
Session 8 Kyle White, Michigan State University Kyle White is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. He will give pdates about Climate Change actions from Geneva and New York UNFIP. He will also discuss moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples and the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and…
Session 7 Peter Swift, UW Madison Southeast Asian Studies Mr. Swift will present on issues of Indigeneity and Land Grabbing in the Mekhong River Basin as well as the struggles from farmer communities in South East Asian to corporate agricultural concessions. Issues of cultural identity and cultural representation will be shared. (Land and Sovereignty) Pao…
Session 6 Tim Frandy, Northland College Mr. Frandy will present on the Bavarian and Scandinavian connection as well as the Sami Nation from Norway and Indigenous peoples from Russia. (Land and Sovereignty) Thomas Dubois, University of Wisconsin-Madison This presentation will focus on issues of culture and environment, cultural sustainability, impacts of colonization on culture, and…
Session 5 Alfonso del Rio, University of Wisconsin Madison Alfonso will be presenting on the importance of genetic diversity for climate change. He will share the experience of the International Potato Center in Cuzco, Peru, as well as in Africa and Central America. (Technology and Institutions) Eve Emshwiller, University of Wisconsin Madison Ethnobotany Evolution and…
Written by: Dolly Potts, POSOH Sustainability Planner Intern I have attended the first four sessions of the seminar series. The speakers as well as the information shared were very interesting. The topics are of interest to me because they contain up-to-date information. Learned professionals in their respective fields give the presentations each week. All of…
Session 3 Michael Dockry, Research Natural Resource Specialist Indigenous Forestry in the Americas: Environmental Histories in Bolivia and Wisconsin. Environment and Technology 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…