Three Pillars of Research Projects(Research Units)[Indigeneity]◆ Construction of new human history, Ainu history,
and indigenous history through the position of indigenous peoples◆ Interdisciplinary study of indigeneity

Global Station for

Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity

GSI is one of the international research hubs of
the Global Institution for Collaborative Researchand Education (GI-CoRE), a faculty organization
formed by taking advantage of Hokkaido University's strengths and distinctive features, and functioning under the direct control of the University'sPresident. It brings together world-class researchers from around the globe to conduct collaborative research with the University's scholars.
GSI launched on April 1st, 2021, and aims to solve
the global and regional issues of indigenous peoples and elucidate the nature of cultural diversity
with indigenous communities including the Ainu ofHokkaido. Scholars from a total of 10 countries
have joined the GSI bringing their expertise fromvarious research fields (as of 2022.04.01).

GSI Overseas Institutes
EuropeUniversity of Oxford
Uppsala University
Lund University
University of Helsinki
Irkutsk State University

Pacific

Simon Fraser University
Australian National University
University of Alaska
University of Arizona
University of OregonPeking University
National Taiwan University◆ Building of a research ethics model for indigenousstudies and proposals for indigenous cultural policies[Indigenous Heritage]◆ Issues over indigenous cultural heritage's characteristics, conservation, and utilization◆ Intellectual property rights of indigenous cultural
heritage and International comparative studies.
◆ International comparative study on indigenous cultural heritage and tourism, including Ainu cultural
heritage[Human Ecology and Global Health]◆ International comparative study of traditional
resource management in indigenous societies◆ International comparative study on living environment of indigenous societies through child'sdevelopment, food, and nutrition◆ Building a regional model and policy proposals
for the conservation of cultural diversity

Message from Director of GSI
The Global Station for Indigenous Studies andCultural Diversity (GSI) was established on April 1,2021, in Hokkaido, the land of Japan's indigenous
Ainu people, as the eighth Global Station of theGlobal Institution for Collaborative Research andEducation (GI-CoRE) and the first Global Station of
the humanities and social sciences, headed by thePresident of Hokkaido University.
Currently GSI has 16 researchers from 6 departments within the university and 23 researchers
from 14 universities in 9 overseas countries. Although GSI has three research units - Indigeneity,
Indigenous Heritage, and Human Ecology andGlobal Health - GSI is able to develop a variety of
new collaborative research projects across units.
Uniquely, GSI can also invite overseas researchers as full-time faculty members under a cross-appointment system to develop joint research projects. In addition to international symposiums andworkshops, GSI plans to publish its own electronic
journal from 2022, with a peer review system managed by international reviewers.
Please keep an eye out for the development of
new indigenous and cultural diversity studies thatwill be disseminated by GSI.
Professor KATO Hirofumi
Director of GSI

Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity
Email: gsi@oia.hokudai.ac.jp
W e b: https://gi-core.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/gsi/
Phone: +81-(0)11-706-7324
Address: Hokkaido University
Northern Campus Research Building No.3-106
Kita-21, Nishi-11, Kita-ku, Sapporo
001-0021, JAPAN