Research Week - April 12th
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Religion & Culture (1L06)
9:00 am – 9:15 am
Meet and greet
9:15 am – 9:35 am
Heather Patrick (JMP Student) - Information and Question/Answer Session about the JMP program (including a discussion of opportunities afforded to students in the JMP program (Teaching/Research Assistantships, the benefits of being able to have contact with faculty from both universities, etc.).
9:35 am – 9:50 am
Greg Saar (JMP Student) - Greg will present a summary of research for his thesis: Reconciliation through Recognition and Respect: Understanding Traditional Indigenous Spiritual Approaches As a Foundation for Dialogue
9:50 am – 10:05 am
Heather Patrick (JMP Student) - Heather will present a summary of research for her thesis: Conjuring Divine Authority: "The Myth of the Found or Recovered Text"
10:25 am – 10:45 am
Greg Saar (JMP Research Assistantship Award recipient) - Greg will present a summary of the research he is doing for two of his supervisor’s (Dr. Mark Ruml) research projects: The first is for a book project, Dakota Wiconi (Dakota Life): Canadian Dakota (Sioux) Spirituality, Culture, and History. The other is for the development of a SSHRC Insight Grant Indigenous Spiritual Biography as the Matrix for Truth and Reconciliation.
10:45 am – 11:05 am
Heather Patrick (JMP Research Assistantship Award recipient) - Heather will present a summary of the research she is doing for two of her supervisor’s (Dr. Carlos Colorado) research projects: The first is for a book project, Recovering Transcendence in a Secular Age. The other is for the development of a SSHRC Insight Grant Public Religion in Secular Canada.
11:05 am – 12:00 am
TBA
Cultural Studies (1L08)
9:15 am – 10:15 am
Research Presentations Panel
Current Cultural Studies students will discuss a) the kind of courses they have taken/are taking, b) how their coursework has dovetailed with pre-existing research interests and/or propelled them toward a different set of questions altogether, and c) how the research they have conducted thus far has affected their development as scholars.
10:15 am – 10:45 am
Coffee and Meet and Greet
Opportunity for Honours students and others to speak with panelists and faculty
10:45 am – 12:00 pm
Research Assistantships Panel
Current Cultural Studies students will discuss the research work they have done with various faculty members.
There will be a Q & A after each panel.