Series November 30, 2020 – Thunder Bay, Ont.
Lakehead University’s Office of Indigenous Initiatives, International and the Department of Indigenous Learning have collaborated to host a Virtual Global Indigenous Speaker Series, Imagining Possibilities through Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
Critical issues of our time including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic have challenged the current state of affairs, provoking an inward gaze among our global community on the resiliency and sustainability of our current philosophies, structures and systems.
Indigenous knowledge systems which are relational and well-established can offer alternative approaches to contemporary issues and support the re-imagination of our global future.
This invitational speaker series highlights the theory, research, and practice of international Indigenous scholars, offering students and faculty across disciplines inspiration, creativity and paths forward in uncertain times.
Register and watch previous events here.
lakeheadu.ca/indigenous/global-indigenous-speakers-series
Talks include:
∙ Watch now – Jorge Cocom Pech (Mayan), Mexico.
∙ Watch now – Dr. Wendy Smythe, (Alaska Native Haida) University Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, USA
∙ Wednesday, Dec. 2, 11:30 – 1 pm EST – Dr. Juan Illicachi Guzñay (Kichwa),Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, Ecuador
∙ Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 10:00 am – 11:30 am EST – Rauna Kuokkanen (Sámi) Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies University of Lapland (Finland) and Adjunct Professor of Indigenous Studies and Political Science University of Toronto. ∙ Wednesday, March 3 – Australia, Charles Darwin University
