Symposium: Indigenous Knowledges and History Education-FR and SJ

Event Details:

Thinking Historically for Canada's Future, in partnership with the Mi'kmaq Wolostaqey Centre and the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick, is pleased to announce an upcoming symposium titled, "Indigenous Knowledges and History Education." This symposium honours the 10th Annual Ottilia Chareka Memorial Lecture in Education and Social Justice.

The purpose of this symposium is to explore the ways in which Indigenous Knowledges (IK) (can) inform the teaching of the past either in formal education contexts such as K-12 history and/or social studies courses or in informal learning spaces such as museum, community, or land-based educational experiences. The panel members will explore the meaning of IK, how IK conceptualizes the past, and shapes teaching and learning about the past. 

Date: March 2, (3rd in NZ)

Time: 7 - 8:30 p.m. Atlantic, 4 - 5:30 p.m. Mountain, 12 - 1:30 p.m. New Zealand

Format: Zoom https://tinyurl.com/IK-HistoryEd (will be recorded). Registration is required.

Panelists:

Dr. Nēpia Mahuika is Ngāti Porou, and the Convenor of History at the University of Waikato. He is chair of Te Pouhere Kōrero and was one of the advisors on the Aotearoa New Zealand History Curriculum working group. From 2022 – 2024, Dr. Mahuika will lead a Marsden Funded project that will explore and discuss key Māori history concepts and pedagogies with iwi experts and the national Māori History collective.

Natasha Simon, PhD candidate, is l’nu from the Signigtog district and Nikanahtpat (Director) of the Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre at UNB. Her current research centres on the special significance of Migatju’aq (grandmothers) in Mi’kmaq culture and on the life and work of her own great grandmother, Isabelle Simon, who was a healer, midwife, and basket maker from Elsipogtog. Natasha’s other research interests include justice for Indigenous peoples, Aboriginal title, the Peace and Friendship Treaties, the history of systemic racism and police violence against Indigenous peoples, and Indigenous research methodologies.

Dr. Chris Andersen is Métis, from the Parkland region of Saskatchewan. He is a Professor, and the Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. He was a founding member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Executive Council, is a member of Statistics Canada’s Advisory Committee on Social Conditions and is editor of the journal aboriginal policy studies. He was recently named to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Dr. Chelsea Gabel is Red River Métis from Rivers, Manitoba. She is an Associate Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Health, Aging and Society and the Indigenous Studies Program. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Well-Being, Community Engagement and Innovation. Her research focuses broadly on Indigenous health, community-engagement, ethics and arts-based research methods.

Moderated by Darrah Beaver, PhD candidate, UNB Faculty of Education, former Director of Education at Tobique First Nation

Questions?  Please contact Vivian Lei, Project Manager, Thinking Historically for Canada's Future yl22@ualberta.ca or for more information visit https://thinking-historically.ca/

Building: MDH via Zoom

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