Aaju Peter, recognised Inuit activist and artist from Canada (the so-called Eskimo), will give a performance-talk on Monday 14 November at La Nau (20 hours, Matilde Salvador Room, free entry) and a conference on Tuesday 15 November at the Institute of Human Rights (16 hours, classroom 4-p12 Faculty of Law at Taronger Campus. The title of the conference in the Cultural Centre La Nau is “The Artic: an unknown cosmos, in the light of women.”
This event is understood as a dialog with the ethnologist Michèle Therrien about the Inuit cosmos from the view of art, shamanism, environment, tradition and contemporary issues. Through words, singings, sounds of drums and projected images, she will show to the attendants the complex and unknown Inuit world where the role of women is emphasised, so she is the carer of light in the endless Artic night.
On Tuesday 15 November she will give, together with Michèle Therrien, a conference in the Master’s degree in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice about the fight of the Inuit community for the recognition of their rights. These events are organised by the Embassy of Canada, the Canada Foundation, the Institute of Human Rights of the UV and the Cultural Centre La Nau.
Aaju Peter, recognised Inuit lawyer and activist, has devoted her life to the defence of Inuit rights, their culture, language and traditions, being always aware of the challenges that the inhabitants of the Nunvaut territory have to face in a global world in continuous transformation. Aaju Peter is also known by her intervention in fields as diverse as women’s rights, sustainable development, traditional economy based on natural resources and the importance of the education of young generations. Apart from being a famous fashion designer, she interprets traditional singings played with drums with the same mastery and energy as she has defended, before international forums, capital issues for her people, such as hunting and the trade of seal products. On 2013 she won the Order of Canada medal.
Michèle Thérrien, ethnologist, researcher and professor emeritus of INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales), of Paris, is one of the very few world experts, non-indigenous, in Inuit language and culture. Originally from Quebec, Michèle Thérrien developed her academic and scientific activity between Canada and France, and she has international recognition given by a career based on the study of Inuit communities. She is a founding member of the International Ph.D School for Studies of Arctic Societies (IPSSAS) and also author of several publications as “Les Inuits” published in 2012 by Les Belles Lettres.
Last update: 11 de november de 2016 08:36.
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