Understanding Free, Prior, and Informed Consent Across the Americas, with speaker Terry Mitchell

Dr. Terry Mitchell, professor at the Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University will give the second guest lecture in our CIH (Calgary Institute for the Humanities) Working Group Beyond Petrocultures. Her talk is entitled Rights, Responsibilities, and Reconciliation: Understanding Free, Prior, and Informed Consent Across the Americas. Professor Mitchell is the Director of the Laurier Indigenous Rights and Social Justice Research Group and a faculty member at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University. Her current research includes a collaborative project with the Centre for International Governance Innovation on the Internationalization of Indigenous Rights and Governance. Read the project’s first special report from December 2014. Event to be followed by a reception. Feel free to extend this invitation to colleagues and students. If you would like to join the working group’s closed workshop sessions as well, please contact any one of us. We hope to see you Friday. Convenors: Dr. Petra Dolata, CRC History of Energy, Department of History pdolata@ucalgary.ca Dr. Sabrina Peric, Department of Anthropology and Archeology speric@ucalgary.ca Dr. Roberta Rice, Department of Political Science roberta.rice@ucalgary.ca Dr. Saulesh Yessenova, Department of Anthropology and Archeology sbyessen@ucalgary.ca
Location:
Bio Sciences 561
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/understanding-free-prior-and-informed-consent-across-americas-speaker-terry-mitchell