Symposium on Indigenous Rights and Workshop on Collaboration and Comparative Research in the North Pacific

该奖项将资助11名美国北极学者参加为期3天的研讨会/研讨会，该研讨会将于2014年1月11日至13日在日本大坂千里博览园国立民族学博物馆举行。 讲习班的主要目标是：（1）介绍目前关于北太平洋区域土著权利状况的研究;（2）促进关于该区域合作和比较研究的讨论;（3）开始讨论建立北太平洋社会科学协会，以促进该区域的科学交流和学术研究。会议的战略是邀请一批学者，他们涉及一系列地理、文化和理论研究领域，并具有与土著社区合作的丰富研究经验;其中4名学者本身就是土著人民。 这次研讨会是一个独特的机会，建立美国和日本社会科学界之间的合作，将支持环太平洋地区的研究。 环太平洋地区对北极社会科学非常感兴趣，因为它有着悠久的东西方联系历史（可以追溯到14,000多年前），加上其受全球化经济和气候变化压力影响的快速变化的社会和文化体系。 美国和日本的社会科学家很少在彼此都感兴趣的地区进行学术合作;这次研讨会将提供这种机会。

This award to supports the travel expenses for 11 US based Arctic scholars to participate in a 3 day symposium/workshop that will take place from January 11-13th, 2014 at the National Museum of Ethnology, Senri Expo Park, Osaka, Japan. The main goals of the workshop are 1) to present current research on the status of indigenous rights in the North Pacific Region; 2) to facilitate discussions on collaborations and comparative research in the region; 3) to open a discussion on the creation of a North Pacific social science association that could facilitate scientific exchanges and scholarship in the region. The meeting strategy is to invite a set of scholars who cover a range of geographic, cultural and theoretical research areas and who have strong research experience working with indigenous communities; 4 of the scholars are indigenous people themselves. This workshop is a unique opportunity for building collaborations between the US and the Japanese social science community that will support research on the Pacific Rim. The Pacific Rim region is of great interest to arctic social science because of its long history of east/west connections (dating back over 14,000 years) combined with its rapidly changing social and cultural systems affected by pressures from globalizing economies to climate change. Rarely have US and Japanese social scientists collaborated on scholarship in what is a region of great mutual interest to each; this workshop will provide that opportunity.