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Indigenous Studies Colloquium

Join our weekly panel discussing and visiting with some of the best speakers, leaders and researchers in Indigenous Studies on Turtle Island.

For more information contact indg.grad@umanitoba.ca.

Winter 2025 schedule

  • Tasha Hubbard in Conversation with Melody McIver at 307 Tier Building, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Singing Back the Buffalo screening at The Winnipeg Art Gallery. Part of the Decolonizing Lens film series, 7:00 PM
  • Crystal Gail Fraser Book Launch for By Strength, We are Still Here at NCTR Gallery, University of Manitoba, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Past Events

Fall 2024 schedule

  • "Ways of Knowing: A Message to Students", Wab Kinew, Premier of Manitoba
  • "Who We Are: Four Questions for a Life and a Nation", The Honourable Murray Sinclair, Mizanay Giizhik
  • TBA
  • "The Trudeau Indigenous Record: 2015-2024", Niigaan Sinclair, University of Manitoba Indigenous Studies
  • "Remembering Indigenous Data, Research and Spectrum Sovereignty", Ashley Daniels, University of Manitoba Indigenous Studies
  • "Queen’s Metis?: A Review of the Queen’s Indigenous Identity Fraud Report as it Pertains to Metis Identity” Ally Freedman, University of Manitoba
  • "Indigenous Fathers and CFS in Manitoba", Leona Huntinghawk, University of Manitoba Indigenous Studies
  • "Restorying of the Sandy Bay Indian Residential School", Jamie Nienhuysen, University of Manitoba Indigenous Studies
  • "Haunted Homelands: 'Housing' and 'Home' in Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg", Sarah Hourie, University of Manitoba Indigenous Studies
  • "Beyond Repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains and Heritage", Pahan PteSanWin, University of Manitoba Indigenous Studies
  • "Brown Tom's Schooldays", Mary Jane Logan McCallum, University of Winnipeg
     

Winter 2024 schedule

  • INDG Indigenous Languages roundtable
  • “Indigenous Administration and INDG” Angie Bruce, VP Indigenous, University of Manitoba
  • “Michif Storytelling and the Writing of Home” Matthew Terault, University of Manitoba
  • “Beyond Educational Genocide” Samara Hand, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • “Plundering the North: Colonialism, Corp. Welfare and Food Ins.” Kristina Burnett, Lakehead University and Travis Hay, Mount Royal University, held virtually
  • “Can Storytelling Bridge Conflicts between indigenous Communities?” Kristina Bidwell, CRC in Indigenous Storytelling, University of Saskatchewan
  • “A Comparative Analysis of Louis Riel and Li Keur” Nicole Stonyk, University of Manitoba
  • “Introducing New Introductory Courses for Indigenous Studies” Laura Forsythe, University of Winnipeg
  • “Defining History and Manitoba’s First Indigenous Premier” Jean and Gerald Friesen, Historians

Fall 2023 schedule

  • Surveillant Metrics: Technologies of Whiteness and the Production of Food Insecurity in Winnipeg; Dr. Merissa Daborn, University of Manitoba; Room: 409 Tier
  • Washagay: Generative Sites of Knowledge Transmission and Generous Reciprocity; Dr. Cathy Mattes, University of Winnipeg; Room: 409 Tier
  • “In-Between Erotics: Two-Spirit, Trans, and Queer Indigenous Creative Expression and Sleeping Anishinaabe Epistemologies; Adrienne Huard, University of Manitoba; Room: 307 Tier
  • Mlte Achimowm and research methodology; Dr. Lorena Fontaine, University of Manitoba; Room: 409 Tier
  • “Women hold that in their hearts and their bodies": Talking Politics with Métis Women; Dr. Jennifer Adese, University of Toronto; Room: 207 Isbister
  • Bizindaadiwag: Indigenous Language Ecologies and Public Art in wínipék; Dr. Patrizia Zanella, University of Manitoba; Room: 207 Isbister
  • Blackness and Indigeneity: historical relationalities; Dr. Aileen Moreton-Robinson, University of Queensland; Room: 207 Isbister; Start time of 5:30 p.m. CT
  • “Racialization, Possession, and Elimination: Theorizing Right Wing Anti-Indigenous Politics”; Dr. Kyle WiIlmott, Simon Fraser University; Room: 307 Tier
  • “Indigenous sovereignty and fish: thinking through research-creation approaches to studying Métis-fish relations”; Dr. Zoe Todd, Simon Fraser University; Room: 207 Isbister
  • TBD; Melody McKiver, University of Manitoba; Room: 307 Tier
  • Beadwork is Medicine; Tammy Wolfe, University of Manitoba; Room: 307 Tier
  • Restor(y)ing gendered polykinetic relations through historical analyses of the Iron Alliance; Iapi debwewin aansaamb, University of Manitoba; Room: 409 Tier

Indigenous Language Drop-ins

Open to students, academics and staff from all Faculties.

A time to practice conversational language, ask questions or learn new words.

Currently on hiatus.