[nativestudies-l] FWD: Call for papers - Indigenous Knowledge Conf.

[Kathleen Burns]

Of possible interest?

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>Date:    Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:38:48 -0700
>From:    Don Fallis <fallis at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>
>Subject: Call for Papers -- Indigenous Knowledge conference
>
>Information Ethics Roundtable 2007
>
>Theme:
>Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Property:
>The Ethics of Cultural and Environmental Sovereignty and Stewardship
>
>University of Arizona
>March 23-25, 2007
>
>The Information Ethics Roundtable will hold its Fifth Annual Meeting at
>the University of Arizona, March 23-25, 2007. Every year the roundtable
>brings together researchers from several different disciplines (e. g.,
>philosophy, library and information science, communications, public
>administration, anthropology, law) to discuss the ethical issues
>surrounding access to information, information privacy, intellectual
>property, intellectual freedom, and censorship.
>
>The theme of this year's meeting is Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural
>Property.  Possible topics include: the rights of indigenous peoples to
>control knowledge that they have discovered or created (e.g.,
>traditional medicines, native symbols, songs, rituals); the rights of
>indigenous peoples to control information about themselves; the ethical
>dimensions of gathering information about and from indigenous peoples
>(e.g. through anthropological, biological, or historical research); the
>relevance of standard justifications for limiting information access,
>such as secrecy, privacy, and intellectual property, to questions of
>indigenous cultural property; the implications of environmental ethics
>in relation to questions of indigenous knowledge and cultural property;
>how control over physical artifacts of indigenous peoples can have an
>impact on the discovery and dissemination of knowledge and information;
>indigenous information stewardship and information professionals (e.g.,
>librarians, archivists, museum directors).
>
>Those wishing to present their research at this conference should submit
>an extended abstract of 1000-1200 words excluding notes and references
>and prepared for blind review.  Abstracts should be in rtf or word
>document format and should be sent as an attachment to
>kmathies at email.arizona.edu.  Deadline for abstracts is December 1,
>2006. Authors will be informed whether their papers are accepted by
>January 1, 2006.  For further information about the Roundtable, see our
>website at http://www.sir.arizona.edu/ier/
>
>Don Fallis
>School of Information Resources and Library Science
>University of Arizona
>http://www.sir.arizona.edu/faculty/fallis/fallis.html