Seminar on the Nordic Sámi Convention

25.10.2007

A seminar on the Nordic Sámi Convention will be arranged in Tromsø, Norway 7-8 December 2007. As a separate event you will find a presentation of and discussion on Mattias Åhren's PhD thesis on Monday 10 December.

Please find the preliminary program below and also the relevant contact information (to Mr Mirko Schönfeldt).

As a Nordic or Baltic Doctoral Candidate you can seek for a mobility scholarship through our Nordic Network "Human Rights in the Age of Globalization":

http://web.abo.fi/instut/imr/nordforsk/scholarships/scholarships.htm

Preliminary program for the Seminar on the Nordic Sámi Convention

Friday 7. December:

12.45-13.00 Welcome by our dean Trude Haugli, Faculty of Law at the University of Tromsø

13.00-13.30 Introduction, Ánde Somby

13.30-14.30 Martin Scheinin

14.30-15.00 Coffee break

15.00-15.30 Mattias Åhrén

15.30-17.00 Discussion

19.00 - Dinner

Saturday 8. December:

09.15-10.30 Hanne Petersen

10.30-11.30 Láilá Susanne Vars, Faculty of Law at the University of Tromsø, "Some Critical Remarks on the Draft Nordic Sámi Convention"

11.30-12.00 Lunch

12.30-13.30 James Anaya

13.30-14.30 Ánde Somby

14.30-15.30 Discussion and conclusion Ánde Somby

The text of the convention in English is to find here:

http://www.regjeringen.no/Upload/AID/temadokumenter/sami/sami_samekonv_engel

sk.pdf

The convention in other languages is to find here:

http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/aid/tema/andre/Nordisk_samisk_samarbeid/Nor

disk-samekonvensjon.html?id=86937

<http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/aid/tema/andre/Nordisk_samisk_samarbeid/No

rdisk-samekonvensjon.html?id=86937>

Monday 10 December (separate event)

9-12 Presentation of and discussion on Mattias Åhren's PhD thesis on

intellectual property rights of indigenous peoples

Contact:

Mirko Schönfeldt <Mirko.Schonfeldt@jus.uit.no>

Mirko Schönfeldt

Det juridiske fakultet / Faculty of Law

Universitetet i Tromsø / University of Tromsø

9037 Tromsø

Tel.: 0047 - 776 20867

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