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We are pleased to announce the special talk by GSI member Professor George Nicholas, Simon Fraser University, read more

The documentary UKOAPKAS captures a remarkable moment of cross-cultural collaboration that took place in June read more

GSI is pleased to announce the rescheduled guest lecture by Dr. Rosemary Joyce, Distinguished Professor of Ant read more

Prof. Peter Jordan, GSI Overseas Unit Member, co-authored the paper “Greenland Norse walrus exploitation deep read more

In June, two members of GSI, Professor Hirofumi Kato and Dr Kanako Uzawa spoke at University of Valencia&#8217 read more

A research paper titled ‘Disaster, survival and recovery: the resettlement of Tanegashima Island followi read more

We are pleased to announce that our e-journal Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity (ISCD) Vol. 1 Issue 2 read more

Prof. George Nicholas, a GSI Overseas Unit member, teaches a new course at Simon Fraser University(SFU), where read more

The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), Indigenous Knowledges Network’s second workshop was read more

Joint workshops between Hokkaido University and the University of Melbourne held at the end of June are featur read more

Zhou, Jianhong: Edelheim Johan R.,”Ethnic Minority Tourism” and “Indigenous Tourism”: read more

On April 1st, 2023, GSI members Prof. H. Kato, Prof. J. Watkins, Prof. G. Nicholas and a visiting researcher o read more

Professor Peter Jordan, a member of GSI, et al. have completed and published a meta analysis of Arctic Indigen read more

On November 7th, 2022 (London), Professor Jordan, a GSI overseas unit member, spoke at the Wellcome Trust Coll read more

On October 22nd, 2022, Professor Kato, Director of GSI, gave a talk titled “The Ainu and Other Northern read more

Professor Watkins, a member of GSI who is currently based at Hokkaido University, and his research were introd read more

Professor Nicholas, GSI Overseas unit member, was introduced in Simon Fraser University’s KNOWLEDGE MOBI read more

In July 2022, the long-awaited visit of GSI overseas unit members finally took place. Professor Joe Watkins an read more

GSI Overseas Unit member Professor George Nicholas has been awarded the title of Distinguished Professor at hi read more

On June 9th 2022, Professor Peter Jordan, a member of GSI, gave a presentation ”The Earth is Faster Now”: Asse read more

Professor Johan Edelheim, a GSI Hokkaido University unit member, will give a lecture titled “Ainu Touris read more

Since the launch of GSI on April 1st, 2021, the number of members has grown to 39 in total (16 Hokkaido Univer read more

Associate Professor Mai Ishihara, a GSI Hokkaido University unit member, has been awarded the 38th Masayoshi O read more

GSI overseas unit member Professor Joe Watkins appears in “Footprints from the Past”, the latest e read more

The GSI Kick-off Symposium held in January ’22 was featured in an article on the Hokkaido University web read more

Professor George Nicholas, a GSI overseas unit member, has received the 2021 Warren Gill Award for Community I read more

Professor George Nicholas’ new article “Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values read more

A new joint paper by Professor Peter Jordan, Professor Hirofumi Kato et al. “Cultural adaptations and is read more

On the 1st December 2021, GSI had 3 scholars come on board as Overseas Unit members

On the 25th November 2021(Sweden), GSI overseas unit member Professor Peter Jordan gives a guest lecture ”Arch read more

Dr. Ishihara questioned herself how the Ainu people were looking at the 150th year of the naming of Hokkaido. read more

Two joint papers by GSI Members, Professor Peter Jordan, Professor Hirofumi Kato et al. were published. Buildi read more

Professor Kato’s interview was featured on esse-sense’s website. During the interview for researchers and memb read more

On the 1st of August 2021, 15 scholars officially joined the GSI as Overseas Unit members.

GSI Overseas Unit member Professor Peter Jordan et al. published a book “The Atlantic Walrus – 1st read more

GSI Hokudai Unit member Professor Johan Edelheim co-wrote an article “A Critical Literature Review on the Inte read more

Assistant Professor Mai Ishihara, a member of GSI, has recently drawn attention for her research “The Silence read more

“An Examination of the Historical Formation Process of Indigeneity and the Group Identity” This project is sup read more

Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity (GSI) of Global Institution for Collaborative Res read more