Human Rights/Sustainability Campus Community Dialogue

September 11, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
HITS -UHM Kuyk 203; KCC Naio 207; and others, please see below

September Theme: Commemoration of the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples & UN Climate Change Summit - Series organizer: Joshua Cooper.

SPEAKER 1, Pierette Birraux, founder of Indigenous Peoples Center for Documentation, Research, and Information (DOCIP): Indigenous Peoples Strategies for Creating Space for Social Change in Own Homelands and the United Nations. The presentation includes clips from the film "Bridge to the Future": In 2013, a symposium organized at the UN in Geneva gathered together some of the First Indigenous Peoples delegates to reflect on achievements since 1977. The event was filmed and the oral memories of the First Delegates was captured by a team of indigenous youth. This documentary is the result of their collaboration. (Watch the entire film and talk story with Pierette Birraux and Josh Cooper at UHM GRG 301B on Friday 9/12 12:40-2 pm).

SPEAKER 2, Shoko Oshiro (Japan Society for Promotion of Science, research fellow): Colonialism's Impact on Indigenous Cultures. Updates regarding the upcoming UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change Summit, and Peoples March

UH Manoa — Kuykendall Hall, Room 203 Kapiolani CC — Naio Building Room 207 Leeward CC — Learning Commons Room 108B UH West Oahu — Library Room B-157 Windward CC — Akoakoa, Room 113A UH Maui College — Ka’aike Room 105 A UH Hilo — Media Services Room 359 Kauai CC — Learning Resource Ctr, Room 121D

Sponsors: Hawaiʻi Institute for Human Rights, UHM Department of Ethnic Studies, UHM CSS Program for Civic Engagement, and several others


Event Sponsor
Ethnic Studies Department, College of Social Sciences Program for Civic Engagement, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Ulla Hasager, 956-4218, ulla@hawaii.edu

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