Indigenous Peoples/Cultural Rights: Chie Sakakibara, Dr. Åse Ottosson

The Center for Ethnomusicology is excited to present two lectures in its Indigenous Peoples/Cultural Rights occasional series.

Chie Sakakibara is a PhD candidate in Cultural Geography at the University of Oklahoma, a specialist in Inupiat culture, and a consultant to the Center's repatriation project with the Inupiat community in Alaska. Her talk, "Of Whales, Songs, & Global Warming: Inupait Expressive Culture and Cliamte Change in Arctic Alska" will take place on November 12th.

Dr. Åse Ottosson completed her PhD thesis “Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia” at the Australian National University in 2006. Her doctoral research explores indigenous and male identity work in the realm of popular music making, based on fieldwork with in the Australian central desert region. A dual citizen of Australia and Sweden, her 1998 Master’s Thesis at Stockholm University, Sweden, explored local governance, democracy and gender regimes in rural Uganda. Before turning to academia, she worked as a photojournalist and foreign correspondent for 15 years and published widely on human rights, gender, politics and economics in Asia and Australia. She lives in Alice Springs, Central Australia, and works as a regional anthropologist for the Aboriginal Central Land Council. Her talk, "Too Much Blackfellas: Performing Aboriginal Music in White Australian Towns" will take place on November 27th.

Both lectures will be held in the Center for Ethnomusicology at 701C Dodge Hall from 4PM to 6PM. Refreshments will be served.