About this Event
This year’s symposium invites critical reflection and dialogue on the experiences, tensions, and possibilities of navigating Indigenous presence within spaces shaped by colonial histories and structures. Through conversations with scholars, community leaders, and knowledge carriers, we will explore how Indigenous peoples reclaim, resist, and transform institutions while carrying forward relationships, responsibilities, and teachings that challenge colonial systems.
The symposium will create space to reflect on belonging, survivance, resurgence, and the ongoing work of making institutions more accountable to Indigenous peoples and communities.
Join us for a day of learning, relationship-building, and collective reflection.
Agenda
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:15 AM
Opening Remarks
Host: Matthew Bisson (MC)
🕑: 09:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Keynote 1: Inuk RCMP Experiences within Northern Communities
Host: Constable George Henrie
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Q&A
🕑: 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Keynote #2: Indigenous Policing and Justice
Host: Sergeant Chantal Larocque
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Q&A
🕑: 11:15 AM
Health Break
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Keynote #3: Indigenous Perspectives within Health
Host: Malaya Zehr
🕑: 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Q&A
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch and Cultural Performancers
Host: Belle Bailey
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM
Keynote #4: Indigenous Representation in the Media
Host: Duncan McCue
🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:30 PM
Q&A
🕑: 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM
Health Break
🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:45 PM
Keynote #5: Indigenous Experiences within the Colonial Governance Systems
Host: Deliah Benard
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Q&A
🕑: 04:00 PM
Closing
Event venue & nearby stays
Richcraft Hall, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Canada
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