ICIK Monthly Seminars

• Exploring the Indigenous Ways of Knowing of the Ojibwe: 09/27/06
• Eutopian Thoughts on Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods in Senegal: 10/25/06
• Placing IK: Community-based Knowledge, Vision and Action in Environmental Design: 11/29/06
• Challenges and Opportunities for Amazon Forest-based Communities: 01/31/2007
• Greening the Dragon: 02/28/2007
• The Gift of Spider Woman: Communication in Navajo Weaving: 03/28/2007
• A Community-Academic Partnership in Tanzania: 04/17/2007
• Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers: 04/25/2007
• Exploring Indigenous Ways of Knowing among the Ojibwe: 09/26/2007
• Agroforestry and Natural Resources Development in Uganda and Mali: 10/24/2007
• An Emerging Scholarship of Cross-Cultural Engagement: 11/28/2007

ICIK Fall 2006 Retreat

The Indigenous Knowledge and Development Working Group held a retreat on Saturday, October 28, 2006 at the Hartman Center in Milroy, Pennsylvania. The retreat theme was "Developing a Strategy to Involve PSU in Indigenous Knowledge and Development Initiatives at the Village-level in Tanzania." This retreat was sponsored by ICIK, the InterInstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge with support form the Colleges of Education and Agricultural Sciences.

• ICIK Retreat Agenda
• Feedback on the ICIK Retreat
• Graphic illustration of the local integration of knowledge systems related to health, the environment and agriculture in support of the Millennium Development Goals
• Graphic illustration of the integration of indigenous knowledge into the research, outreach and teaching agenda of the academy
• Grant proposal submission entitled "Collaborative Research Leading to Integration of Indigenous Knowledge Related to the Well-Being of Families and Children in Rural East Africa" to CYFC

Our October Indigenous Knowledge and Development Working Group's retreat has launched the East Africa initiative that we envisioned. We are planning to host a video-conference before the end of Spring Semester to allow the PSU delegation to share both their Tanzanian experiences and their thoughts about next steps for our East Africa initiative.

Seminar Announcement co-sponsored by PSU Office of International Programs and ICIK: A Community-Academic Partnership in Tanzania

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