Keynote speakers:
Indigenous, Intercultural and Community Universities: Latin American Experience to Address Education for Indigenous Peoples
Mirna Cunningham, PhD
SESSION 1A: Narrating Indigenous People’s Experiences
Philippine Indigenous Cultural Communities: a Historical Perspective
Esteban Magannon, PhD
The Quest for Indigenous Identity in Bangladesh: Reflections on Achievements and Setbacks since 1993
Prashanta Tripura
Reducing Barriers to Native AmericanStudents’ Success in Higher Education
Priscilla Settee, PhD
SESSION 1B: Theorizing Indigenous Studies
Indigenous Studies in the Context of Abya Yala (The America): Two Experiences of Indigenous Higher Education and/or Community-based Education
Tirso Gonzales, PhD
Whare Hape: The Ancient Pacific University of Indigenous Higher Learning
Wikuki Kingi
The ‘Indigenous’ in the Cordillera Studies Program of the University of the Philippines Baguio
Raymundo D. Rovillos PhD, and Ma. Paula Luz Pamintuan Riva
SESSION 2: Revisiting Key Concepts
Spirituality and the (re) construction of INdigenous Traditions
Leah Abayao, PhD
Ecological Spirituality, Culture and Development: Approaches and the Methodologies in Doing the Indigenous Dialogic Research
Edwin A. Gariguez, PhD
We Strive for the Well-being of our Society: the Indigenous Discourse of Women in Manipur
Vijaylakshmi Brara, PhD
KEYNOTE: DAY 2
Perpetuating Indigenous Knowledge Through Participatory Research, Validation and Value Addition
Hussein Isack, PhD
SESSION 3A: Ways of Knowing: Indigenous Knowledge
The Outline of Traditional Knowledge of Ethnic Groups in China
Zhao Fuwei et. al.
SESSION 3B: Ways of Knowing: Methodologies
Shifting Perspectives: Rethinking Indigenous Knowledge and Politics
Stuart Kirsch, PhD
Objectivity in Ethnographic Narratives
Raymundo Pavo
Ethnoautobiography: On Decolonizing Modern/Colonial Thinking through the Uses of Indigenization Paradigms
Elenita Mendoza-Strobel, EdD
Lexical Retrieval in L1, L2, L3 and L4 of the Bilingual Eskayan Tribe in Taytay, Duero, Bohol
Angelo O. Tubac
SESSION 4A: The Role of Intellectuals
The Role of Research and Academia in Indegenous Peoples’ Issues: Interculturality in the Making
Elsa Stamatopoulou, PhD
Changes in Gender Relations and Age Deference in the Practice of Gold Sharing and Their Translation in the Traditional and Contemporary Cultural Landscape of the Kankana-ey
Leo Mar E. Edralin
SESSION 4B: Cordillera Cultural Studies
Studying the Discourses of Colonial travel Writings on the Cordilleras through Rhetorical Analysis
Io M. Jularbal
Selected Songs of the Salidummay Cultural Group: and Initial Marxist Economical Assessment
Jose Kervin Cesar B. Calabias
Mobile Phones and the Igorot: a Culture-Centered Study of Mobile Phone Use in/by an Indigenous Community in the Philippines
Dazzelyn Baltazar Zapata
KEYNOTE DAY 3
Indigenous People’s Political Advocacy: Whither the Academe?
Joji Cariño
SESSION 5: Indigenous Studies as as Development Concern
Indigenous Knowledge in Oral Narratives of Oromo Society and its Significance to Sustainable Development
Yosef Beco Dubi
Developing a Process Framework for Indigenous Community-based Planning: a Case from Mindanao, Philippines
Jayson Ibañez et. al
Editor: Darius Martinez and Ma. Paula Luz Pamintuan-Riva