Our university's Ainu and Indigenous Research Center will hold the "Ainu and Indigenous Research Center 2023 Public Lecture" from September 26th to February 27th.

In December 2005, Hokkaido University President Mutsuo Nakamura (at the time) announced that, based on the historical relationship between our university and the Ainu people, and while respecting the dignity of the Ainu people, a nationwide initiative regarding indigenous minority groups, including the Ainu people, was announced. -Declared that it is our university's "responsibility" to conduct international research and education. Based on this declaration, the Ainu and Indigenous Peoples Research Center was established in April 2007 as a joint educational and research facility of Hokkaido University. Our center has eight full-time faculty members specializing in history, archaeology, cultural anthropology, museology, linguistics, and constitutional studies, and they conduct research and research on the Ainu people and the indigenous peoples of each country. It is developed in an interdisciplinary manner. In order to disseminate the results of such research to society and have them utilized by the Ainu people, our center holds public lectures taught by full-time faculty members.

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