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Moved to Action: A Workshop on Activating the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canadian Museums

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec/Canada

May 3, 2023 / 10:00am – 11:30am EDT (UTC -5) / 16:00h – 17:30h CEST

https://fb.me/e/3V8aQLdrW (virtual)

RSVP HERE

Presenters: Stephanie Danyluk and Rebecca MacKenzie

Facilitator: Heather Igloliorte

Format: Zoom workshop

Description:

Museums have, from their preliminary existence, been part of the colonial project. The Moved to Action report, released by the Canadian Museums Association in 2022 in answer to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action #67, provides a series of standards for museums seeking to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and support Indigenous self-determination.

How do we acknowledge the truth of the colonial legacy of museums while also supporting our work as community institutions? Join the report co-authors to discuss hopes for a national baseline of support for Canadian museums and ways that together we can be moved to enact and support Indigenous self-determination.

Presenter Bios:

Stephanie Danyluk, CMA Senior Manager, Community Engagement and Indigenous Initiatives, MA (History), is a public historian and researcher with extensive experience in community engagement supporting Indigenous heritage and governance initiatives.

Rebecca MacKenzie, CMA Director of Communications, BA (History and Art History), is a communications and design professional of Acadian, Blackfoot, Metis and Scottish descent. She has previously worked in Indigenous and settler communications roles in both the museum and private sectors.

Facilitator Bio:

Heather Igloliorte is a Nunatsiavummiuk-Newfoundlander from Happy Valley – Goose Bay, NL. She is the University Research Chair in Indigenous Circumpolar Arts at Concordia University in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal), where she is the Director of the “Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership” project and Co-Director of the Indigenous Futures Research Centre. Her research focuses on circumpolar Indigenous art histories, material and new media art practices, research-creation, critical museology, and curatorial studies. She has been a curator for 17 years and is a founding member of GLAM Collective.

Questions? Contact: capsl@concordia.ca

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Alex Robichaud, Program Coordinator for the Thinking Through the Museum Research Network

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Gespräch mit Amber Bracken / Conversation with Amber Bracken

 

on Tuesday March 14, 2023, at 4 p.m.
at the Embassy of Canada on Leipziger Platz 17 in Berlin

Amber Bracken is a freelance photojournalist based in Edmonton. She is particularly interested in the intersection of photography, journalism and issues affecting indigenous peoples of North America.

With her photo „Kamloops Residential School“ she won the „World Press Photo of the Year“ award in 2022. The photograph commemorates 215 Indigenous children whose unmarked graves were found near the western Canadian city of Kamloops, British Columbia, on the site of a former residential school. The World Press Photo exhibition has subsequently been shown in many cities around the world. In Germany, it is currently on display in Oldenburg.

We hope to be joined by activist Snutetkwe Manuel via video from Canada. She is one of the initiators of the memorial photographed by Amber Bracken.

Please register to attend the event via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.de/e/conversation-with-amber-bracken-tickets-577151324147

We are looking forward to your attendance!

Also visit the Embassy of Canada on social media at:

https://twitter.com/CanEmbGermany
https://www.facebook.com/CanadainGermany/

https://www.instagram.com/kanadabotschaft/ 

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New Directions in Indigenous Book History (online)

Free, public virtual symposium to be held on 

Thursday, March 23rd, and Friday, March 24, 2023

Registration is free and open to the public.

Visit the conference website for a full program.

After the ten-year anniversary of Phillip Round’s Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880 (2010) and at the twentieth anniversary of Louise Erdrich’s Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (2003), we invite the general public to join us in a free, two-day, virtual symposium in which national and international scholars will offer analyses, reflections, and provocations on the material book’s historical and continuing relation to Indigenous peoples and communities. We will also take the occasion to mark the flourishing—though still nascent—field of scholarship on the materialities of the Indigenous book and the productive interventions such scholarship has made into the traditionally settler-oriented fields of bibliography, scholarly editing, and book history.

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La Fête des Francophonies, 18. März in Berlin

Welcome! It’s La Fête des Francophonies of Berlin!

Organised as part of the 2023 Canada-Quebec-Haiti co-presidency of the Network of Francophone Embassies and Representations in Berlin, La Fête des Francophonies of Berlin features many activities!

The Grande tablée welcomes you to taste the culinary specialties of the participating countries (maple syrup delicacies, taffy, poutine, Creole dishes, etc.). La grand scène musicale and DJ Babxi plays the sounds of our French-speaking countries. Workshops and storytelling for children in the Timber Hall, a festival of short and medium-length films in the Auditorium, bilingual animation and French-German language games, information booths on Quebec, work & travel or studying in Canada, Haitian culture in the Marshall McLuhan Salon, a wealth of francophone flavours for the German public!

  • Entry will only be granted with a valid ID or passport.
  • To ensure a swift registration process on the day of the event, we will not allow any large bags to the venue.
  • Health & Safety: We encourage attendees to complete a COVID self-test prior to the event. If you feel unwell, or have tested positive for COVID-19, please do not attend.

https://www.eventbrite.de/e/billets-la-fete-des-francophonies-560580791237

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ACSI conference: Canada Today and Tomorrow (online)

May 18, 2023

Canada Today and Tomorrow – an online conference – Thursday 18 May 2023 (1.00pm-5.15pm, local time, Dublin)

Canada Today and Tomorrow gathers together established and emerging international scholars to reflect on a range of dimensions of research on Canada, including themes such as transitions, decolonialisation, pluri-culturalism, interculturalism, indigeneity, translations, multilingualism, the environment and migration. Speakers are drawn from a variety of countries, including Ireland, Germany, Portugal and Canada. The conference will be structured around short (15 minute) interventions whose aim is to provoke reflection and questions for wider discussion among everyone attending.

This online event has been organised by ACSI – https://www.canadianstudiesireland.com/

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Public Engagement at Queen’s University Belfast for kindly hosting this event on their platform (https://www.qub.ac.uk/).

Registration for the conference is via Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/492267564537