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Sogip conferences, Paris, June 2011 - 1 June 2011

SOGIP research programme has organised an international workshop in Paris from 29th of June to 1st of July 2011 entitled : "Indigenous Peoples : International developments, governance, legal issues". The workshop took place at EHESS, 105 boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris .

The first day of the workshop centred on the following theme :"Historical trajectories and the recognition of ”Indigenous Peoples", firstly by questioning the general meanings of the terms : « indigenous peoples / pueblos indigenas / peuples autochtones ». Behind those categories : what is now considered acceptable?, how are those categories instrumentalized, what is their impact on Indigenous Peoples? Secondly the following topic was presented "Indigenous institutions and national legal traditions: articulations and contradictions".

The second day focussed on the theme "International Indigenous law today: Global, national and local scales". The first session dealt with : "Circulation and appropriation of international standards by the state apparatuses" and the second one : "Local mobilization of indigenous rights: actors, strategies, organizations".

The third day was organised around two round tables involving all participants : «The efficiency of law in Aboriginal Strategies: the construction of a globalized imaginary» and in the afternoon : «Does indigenous governance translate into well-being for indigenous peoples? resistance and contradictions».

SOGIP also organised a conference by Pr. Jon Altman, professor of anthropology at the Research School of Social Sciences de l’Australian National University entitled "Développement alternatif et différence : reconfigurer les relations à l’Etat sur le domaine foncier aborigène". The conference took place on the 24th of June 2011, from 3pm to 6pm at EHESS, amphithéâtre François Furet, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris.

And a conference by Pr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, the first Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples entitled "L’institutionnalisation des droits des peuples autochtones: possibilités et problèmes" which took place on the 28th of June 2011, from 5pm to 7pm at Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, 56 rue Jacob, 75006 Paris. This conference was organised by Irène Bellier and the SOGIP team (ERC 249236), Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain (IIAC, CNRS-EHESS), LAIOS, in association with Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine (IHEAL, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3) and the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI).

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