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Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speaker Series: Past Speakers

Speakers for 2021-2022


June 2022
Inuit Studies Conference 2022: Auviqsaqtut
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Speakers for 2020-2021


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November 2021
Carey Newman and Jennefer Nepinak
Decolonizing Contracts – Transforming Relationships through Art and Indigenous Perspective


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January 27, 2021
Panel moderated by Dr. Julie Nagam with panelists Dr. Ronak Kapadia, Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills, Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Ms. Tasha Spillett and Dr. Mishuana Goeman
Intersections of critical race, place and culture within our current climate


Speakers for 2019-2020


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September 23, 2019
Dr. Jennifer Walker

Indigenous Data and Research


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October 9, 2019
Dr. Margaret Noodin
Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan (What the Chickadee Knows): Anishinaabe Philosophy in Poetry


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November 13, 2019
Dr. Karyn Recollet
When Future Falls are Imminent: The Moves and Returns of Scoop Choreography of the Fall


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January 22, 2020
Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson
Indigenous Knowledge and Heavens


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February 12, 2020
Dr. Priscilla Settee
The Impact of Climate Change and Environmental Degradation on Indigenous Knowledge Systems: What You Should Know


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March 11, 2020
Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale
Indigenous Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Possibilities for Decolonial Futures


Speakers for 2018-2019


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September 12, 2018
Dr. Adrienne Keene

Higher Education as Building Indigenous Futures: Native Students Navigating College


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October 17, 2018
Dr. Kim Tallbear
The More-than-Monogamy Experiment


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November 7, 2018
Dr. Edward Doolittle
What is Indigenous Mathematics


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January 16, 2019
Dr. Melissa Arcand
Nisitohtamowin askihk ohci: understanding from the land through application of biophysical tools to support First Nations land management


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February 13, 2019
Dr. Mishauna Goeman
Turning the spectacle: Imagining Indigenous Futures, Killing Colonial Pasts


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March 13, 2019
Dr. Sherry Farrell-Racette
“Dear Miss Davis” and Death While Editing: Contributions of Métis Women to Life and Learning in the North West, 1830-1870


 Speakers for 2017-2018


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October 25, 2017
Dr. Julie Nagam
Collective and Creative Methodologies Within the Future of Indigenous Arts


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December 5, 2017
Dr. Jennifer Brant
Indigenous maternal pedagogies: Lessons from our Sweetgrass Baskets


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January 17, 2018
Dr. Tasha Hubbard
Buffalo Ralatives: Understanding Reciprocity Through Stories of the Buffalo


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February 7, 2018
Dr. Heather Igloliorte

Sakkijajuk/To be Visible: Engaging Nunatsiavut Communities in the Future of Inuit Art


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March 7, 2018
Dr. Mary Jane McCallum
Indigenous People, Archives, and History



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March 26, 2018
Dr. John Borrows
Learning From the Land


Past Speakers 2016-2017


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March 8, 2017
Dr. Kim Anderson
An Indigenous Feminist Commemoration of Canada 150


Chelsea Vowel

February 8, 2017
Chelsea Vowel
Indigenization in the Time of Pipelines


Dr. Lorna Williams

January 11, 2017
Dr. Lorna Williams
How Universities can Support Indigenous Language Revitalization and Maintenance


Dr. Alex Wilson

December 6, 2016
Dr. Alex Wilson
Coming In to Indigenous Sovereignty: Relationality and Resurgence


Past Speakers - 2015 -16


Drs Battiste and Henderson

March 14, 2016
Dr. Marie Battiste and Dr. Sákéj Henderson
Indigenizing the Academy: Indigenous Perspectives and Eurocentric Challenges


Dr. Janet Smylie

February 3, 2016
Dr. Janet Smylie
First Peoples, Second Class Care: “The most dangerous form of racism is unintentional racism from health practitioners” 


Dr. Adam Gaudry

January 6, 2016
Dr. Adam Gaudry
Are the Métis treaty people? An examination of the Manitoba Act as a treaty with the Métis Nation


Dr. Anton Treuer

December 2, 2015
Dr. Anton Treuer
How to Learn an Indigenous Language


JP Gladu

November 16, 2015
JP Gladu (CCAB), Clint Davis (TD Bank) and Massey Whiteknife
Aboriginal Rights and Business


Dr. Leroy Little Bear

October 9, 2015
Dr. Leroy Little Bear
What I Know About Canada


Dr. Pam Palmater

September 14, 2015
Dr. Pam Palmater, Dr. Rob Innes, and Leah Gazan
To Vote or Not To Vote


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