Inuvialuit Living History at IPinCH
On Friday, September 30th 2011 I presented a draft version of the Inuvialuit Living History virtual exhibit with Natasha Lyons (Ursus Heritage), Charles Arnold (U Calgary), and Stephen Loring (Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution) at the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) Mid-term conference, held at Simon Fraser University. Our presentation focused on the collaborative development of the project and the conversations about ownership and repatriation of cultural property that have emerged in this production process. A “spotlight” on the project (to be launched later this year) can be seen here on the IPinCH website.
IPinCH “represents an international, interdisciplinary collaboration among more than 50 scholars and 25 partnering organizations embarking on an unprecedented and timely investigation of intellectual property (IP) issues in cultural heritage that represent emergent local and global interpretations of culture, rights, and knowledge. Our objectives are:
- to document the diversity of principles, interpretations, and actions arising in response to IP issues in cultural heritage worldwide;
- to analyze the many implications of these situations;
- to generate more robust theoretical understandings as well as exemplars of good practice; and
- to make these findings available to stakeholders—from Aboriginal communities to professional organizations to government agencies—to develop and refine their own theories, principles, policies and practices