Alaskan cultural heritage protection
Rosita Kaahani Worl, president of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, will deliver Heritage and Community Values, Benefits and Sustainability— the next lecture in the President’s Dream Colloquium on Protecting Indigenous Cultural Heritage, on Thursday, Feb. 26, 3:30-5 p.m. at SFU’s Burnaby campus, West Mall Centre, room 3260. Online reservation is required.
A prolific author about Alaskan indigenous issues and cultural practices, Worl’s writings include exploration of subsistence lifestyles, women’s issues, law and policy, and southeast Alaskan indigenous culture and history. Worl, a Ch’áak’ member, has served as the social scientific researcher at the University of Alaska Arctic Environmental Information and Data Centre and conducted the first social scientific study projecting socio-cultural impacts of offshore oil development on the Inupiat.
One of two concurrent lecture series, this colloquium explores the creation and implementation of respectful, ethical and effective policies to protect indigenous cultural heritage in the face of opposing views on what heritage means.
Kristen Dobbin, a communications specialist with the SFU-led Intellectual Property Issues Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) research team, is handling media queries. IPinCH is co-sponsoring this lecture series.
Kristen Dobbin, kristen_dobbin@sfu.ca (best reached by email)
