Program for a seminar in occasion to the conferring of the degree of Honorary Doctor to Professor Erica-Irene Daes

The seminar is an open seminar.

Friday the 28th of March
Place: Tabletten at the Pharmacy building

09.00-09.15:
Welcome by Tore Henriksen, Dean at the Faculty of Law and Bård A. Berg, Chairman of the board of the Centre for Sami Studies

09.15-10.00:
Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples,
by Professor Erica-Irene A. Daes

10.00-10.15: Coffee

10.15-10.45:
UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - Perspectives on its mandate and work,
by Professor Ole Henrik Magga, President of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, New York.

10.45-11.15:
UN Working Group on Indigenous populations - A proof that the UN system still is in function,
by Lars Anders Bær, member of the Sami Parliamentary Council and leader of the board of the Swedish Sami Parliament

11.30-12.00:
The Sami organisations - the Norwegian state - the process of the ILO no 169,
by Professor Henry Minde, University of Tromsø