Cultural Appropriation, Creativity and Innovation
A Round Table Discussion
Friday, March 23
12:30-2 pm.
Jackman Law Building (lower level), Room P115.
(Note change of location)
Panelists:
Professor Margaret Jane Radin
Professor George Elliot Clarke
Journalist Meera Solanki Estrada
Moderator: Professor Douglas Sanderson
This is the third and final event in our series on cultural appropriation and the legal protection of traditional knowledge in Canada and beyond. At this round table, panelists will speak about cultural appropriation, creativity and innovation. In particular, they will be asked to speak about how we should be encouraged to imagine other peoples, cultures and identities in multicultural countries.
This workshop is presented by LLM Candidates Sandrine Ampleman-Tremblay and Esteban Vallejo-Toledo, and the Indigenous Initiatives Office at University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.
For more information, email:
sandrine.ampleman@mail.utoronto.ca/esteban.vallejotoledo@mail.utoronto.ca/ amanda.carling@utoronto.ca
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https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cultural-appropriation-creativity-and-innovation-a-round-table-tickets-43317155779
About our panel:
Professor Margaret Jane Radin is Faculty of Law Distinguished Research Scholar at the University of Toronto, where she serves on the Faculty Advisory Group for the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. Her most recent book, Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law (Princeton University Press, 2013), won the Scribes Book Award for 2014. Professor Radin is the author of about 70 articles, two of which, Property and Personhood and Market-Inalienability, were selected for a list of the 100 most cited law review articles of all time. She has held chaired professorships at the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the University of Southern California, and she has also taught at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, New York University, and Princeton University, where she was the inaugural Microsoft Fellow in Law and Public Affairs. Professor Radin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Law Institute.
Professor George Elliott Clarke is a Canadian poet and playwright. He served as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate 2016-2017. Professor Clarke is the inaugural E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. He has also taught at Duke University (1994-99), McGill University (1998-99), The University of British Columbia (2002), Mount Allison University (2005), and Harvard University (2013-14). His many honours include the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement (1998), Governor-General's Award for Poetry (2001), the National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry (2001), the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award (2004), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship Prize (2005-2008), the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction (2006), the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (2009), appointment to the Order of Nova Scotia (2006), appointment to the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer (2008), and eight honorary doctorates. He was Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-15).
Meera Solanki Estrada is a freelance journalist. Her work has been published in Huffington Post Canada, ELLE Canada, FLARE, Blasting News among other magazine and news outlets. She has also appeared as a Fashion & Culture Expert for numerous local and national radio & television segments, including CTV Your Morning, CP24 Breakfast News, CBC Radio, The Global Morning Show, Global News, AM640 Talk Radio and more. She is the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of FUSIA Media, a premiere online destination for the modern Canadian South Asian Woman. It is where fashion, lifestyle and entertainment intersect with global citizenship. A degree from the Schulich School of Business paired with a post-graduate in Radio & Television Broadcast Journalism, Meera's education and experience are a force of media savvy. She embodies her brand mantra of fashion meets compassion South Asian style! You can read more of Meera's work in her F Word Blog where she takes you on a personal journey into her world of fun, fearless and fabulous living www.fusia.ca
Professor Douglas Sanderson is a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, and he has been deeply engaged in Aboriginal issues from a policy perspective. From 2004-2007 he was a Senior Advisor to the Government of Ontario, first in the Office of the Minister Responsible for Aboriginal Affairs, and later, to the Attorney General.
Professor Sanderson's research areas include Aboriginal and legal theory, as well as private law (primarily property law) and public and private legal theory. His work uses the lens of material culture and property theory to examine the nature of historic injustice to Indigenous peoples and possible avenues for redress. Moving beyond the framework of common law property rights and constitutional land/treaty rights, his scholarship focuses on Aboriginal institutions, post-colonial reconciliation and rebuilding community.
