Upcoming events
- Workshop: Research in the Library for FPST & Indigenous Topics
Michelle Lake (Librarian for First Peoples Studies, Political Science, SCPA and Government Information) will be at the ASRC presenting tools for conducting research in First Peoples Studies and on Indigenous Topics. The last 30 minutes of each session will be held for Q&A and/or an optional tour of the library.
Date: Thursday, November 1
Time: 1pm - 2:30pm
Location: ASRC Conference Room (Hall Building 641.03, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal)
To RSVP: Please visit the ASRC’s Facebook event.
- Take a study break and get outside this Sunday with the Concordia Outdoors Club!
The Concordia Outdoors Club is hiking Montagne Noire in Lanaudière this weekend. Montagne Noire offers 13 km of hiking trails with some great views and the 1943 crash site of an RCAF Liberator aircraft along one of the trails. Online tickets went on sale October 31st, at 1:15pm and are sold out, but there are limited tickets available in-office.
Date of hike: Sunday, November 4
Time: The bus will be leaving from in front of 1455 Boul. de Maisonneuve (Hall Building) at 8am on Sunday morning and picking hikers up at the mountain to head home at 4pm.
Cost: Tickets are $20 each and limited to two per person.
More information can be found on Concordia Outdoors Club’s Facebook event page.
- Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf's Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Academy Series:
Seminar IV: Canada's History of Residential Schools and its Impacts on Indigenous Peoples
The intent of this workshop is to increase participants' critical analysis and understanding about the history and role of Canada's residential schools and its impacts on Indigenous Peoples, key findings from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report and its implications on decolonizing and Indigenizing the academy.
Date: Friday, November 2
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: SGW FB 620
Seminar V: Iakwahwatsiratátie, Our Families are Continuing: A Successful Kahnawake Community-Based Education Model in Indigenous Language and Cultural Revitalization
The aim of this workshop is to deepen participants' knowledge and understanding of the strategies, Indigenous pedagogical and curriculum approaches in creating and implementing a community-based language nest program called Iakwahwatsiratátie, meaning Our Families are Continuing, located in the local community of Kahnawake. Key question/s to be explored include: What key learnings can faculty take away from this presentation as it relates to Indigenous students and education? What implications do the role of Indigenous community-based language nest programs have on teaching and learning within the context of decolonizing the academy?
Date: Friday, November 16
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: SGW FB 620
Register online for this workshop through the Centre for Teaching and Learning.
- Recuperating Indigenous Narratives: Making Legible the Documenting of Injustices
This conference, by distinguished Cree-Métis scholar Deanna Reder (Associate Professor and Chair, First Nations Studies, Simon Fraser University) looks at what stories have been/are untold, why, and what it takes to not only recuperate them, but to engage with them, and (re)enter them into and amidst mainstream audiences; to make them heard, and how they speak to, and acknowledge, the necessity of documenting such injustices and silenced stories; and, so that they may be not only heard, but ultimately believed.
Date: Tuesday, November 13
Time: 4:30pm - 6pm
Location: Carrefour des arts et des sciences (3150 rue Jean-Brillant, Montreal, QC, H3T 1N8)
More information can be found on DESS récits et médias autochtones’ Facebook event page.
- Reframing Practice: Why Naming Matters - Discussions on Cataloguing, Classification, and Indigenous Knowledges
Hosted by the Cataloguing and Technical Services Section of the Association des Bibliothécaires du Québec/Québec Library Association
Featured speakers include: Dr. Kenneth Deer (Mohawk Nation of Kahnawake), Camille Callison (University of Manitoba),
Annie Bosum (Aanischaaukamikw - Cree Cultural Institute), Katherine Kasirer (National Film Board), and Hannah Buckland (Hennepin County Library)
Date: Saturday, November 17
Time: 9am - 12pm
Location: Room LB 362 Webster Library, SGW Campus (1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Cost: $35
To register, please visit their Eventbrite page.
- Research and Reconciliation Fall Gathering
Hosted by the Montreal Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy Network
The format of NETWORK gatherings is changing for its 10th anniversary; they will now have a very clear purpose and will aim to unite specific guests. These elements will both change from gathering to gathering.
Reflect upon the Past: Share experiences and learnings on research (community-based, academic, etc.) about us: Indigenous Peoples in the greater Montreal.
Plan for the Future: Participate in deep dialogue to paint a vision that will guide future research about us: by who, how, and what.
Date: Friday, November 23
Time: 9:30am
Location: Will be confirmed with participants upon registration
To register, please visit the NETWORK’s event registration page.
- Safe for Whom/Safe from Whom: How does profiling impact community safety?
A University of the Streets Café public conversation
Who are the people who express a need for safe communities? From whom do they feel unsafe? And why? This public conversation considers whether a community safety perspective can further contribute to control over poor and racialized communities. To what extent do biases conflate feelings of insecurity and further enable localized entitlement?
Date: Wednesday, November 28
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Head & Hands (3465 Benny Ave.)
Cost: Free
For more information, please visit Concordia’s Events website.
