Urban and Inner-City Studies

Urban and Inner-City Studies Speaker Series 2011 -2012

URBAN AND INNER-CITY STUDIES SPEAKERS SERIES

Hosted by  Urban and Inner-City Studies at University of Winnipeg.

Urban and Inner-City Studies is organizing a unique series of speakers. This series engages faculty, students, community organizations and policy-makers in discussions about urban and global issues. Each term, leading thinkers, both local and global, offer their perspectives on an important issue or idea or problem. This series is also important in introducing a unique new U of W program and an inner-city view of urban life.

Upcoming Speaking Event!

Please check back for 2011/2012 Speaking events!

This series engages faculty, students, community organizations and community members in discussion about current issues.

These events will include:
•    an interactive discussion period with audience members after presentation
•    light lunch will be provided
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We were pleased to have shared with you:

Anishinabe Storyteller and Spiritual Caregiver

Bebahmoytung Morrison

Anishinabe Wisdom in a modern era: the visual art of storytelling is an ancient sharing of a time that speaks to the values and customs that have survived the multitude of generational impacts of cultural deprivation and colonialism. Restoration and preservation of a highly developed ancient customary methodology is a story worth sharing. What is meant by “Anishinabe Wisdom?”… And the story begins.

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On February 16, 2011 Urban and Inner-City Studies Speaker Series presented:

pê-âcimohk[i]: kiskino mâto tapanâsk[ii] – Digital Stories of the Intergenerational Effects on Professional First Nations Women Whose Mothers are Residential School Survivors

Indigenous storytellers are now carrying their narratives into digital media domains. Through digital stories, we will explore the intergenerational effects on professional First Nations women in Winnipeg whose mothers attended residential school. A ‘digital story’ is a short video approximately 3-5 minutes in length. The presenters will be showing and discussing their own digital stories, produced as part of a research project by the Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence.

[i] pê-âcimohk is a Plains Cree word that means “come and witness/hear a story”. [ii] kiskino mâto tapanâsk is a Plains Cree phrase that means “the crying wagon/school bus”.

Thank you to all who came out to support our speakers series event at 519 Selkirk Avenue.Please direct any questions to Claudette at 988.7196 or email c.michell@uwinnipeg.ca

Photos from the February 16 Speaker Series Event. 

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On September 27, 2010 Urban and Inner-City Studies launched our 2010/2011 Speaker Series Events!

We were pleased to have at our first event - Native author, artist and activist GORD HILL.

Born in 1968, Hill, who has Tlingit and Scottish ancestry, grew up in his people's territory ( the Kwakwaka'wakw nation on the northern part of Vancouver Island). He trained as an army cadet and even joined the reserves, but became politicized after moving to East Vancouver in 1986 (where he currently resides). He quit the reserves and took up with anarchist groups, eventually finding his way into the indigenous resistance movement - which he's been devoted to for the last twenty years. "One of my main efforts is to raise the fighting spirit of indigenous peoples and to revitalize the warrior culture that was an important basis of indigenous society," says Hill.

Photos from the Gord Hill Speakers Series Event.

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October Speaking Events:

On October 18 Urban and Inner-City Studies presented:




Nahanni Fontaine is the Justice Director of the Southern Chiefs’ organization which represents 36 First Nations in Manitoba.

Elizabeth Comack is a Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Manitoba and a Research Associate for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA –MB.).


Audio from the Racialized Policing Event (MP3)

Photos from the Racialized Policing Event.




We were pleased to have at our third lunch hour event – descendant of the Muisca People of Colombia, South America.,


Gabriel Ricardo Nemogá Soto, is a descendant of the Muisca Indigenous People of Colombia, South America. He has degrees in PhD Human Ecology (University of California-Davis), MA (Brunel, UK), BA in Sociology (National University of Colombia), BA in Law (Free University of Colombia).

Gabriel Nemogá is currently a visiting scholar in the Aboriginal Governance Program at the University of Winnipeg, teaching self-determination and Indigenous resistance movements in Latin America. His research interest includes cultural and biological diversity issues, protection of traditional knowledge and access regimes to genetic resources. He has worked with Indigenous communities in Mexico and different regions in Colombia.

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November Speaking Event:

Our fourth and final event for the Fall 2010 term of the Urban and Inner-City Studies Speakers Series presented:

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine B.A., LL.B., LL.M., is of Cree and Ojibway descent and a member of the Sagkeeng First Nation in Canada.
 
Ms. Fontaine is an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg in the Department of Indigenous Studies. She has also taught for the First Nations University of Canada and the School of Public Policy Graduate Program at Queens University. Currently, Ms. Fontaine is a PhD student at the University of Manitoba researching Indigenous Language Rights in Canada
 
For twenty years, Ms Fontaine has worked with Indigenous political organizations as an advocate for Indigenous women, Indigenous youth and former students of Indian Residential Schools in Canada.

Photos from the November 29, 2010 speaking event.
 
 
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