The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography 2016 Symposium

The Imaginative Ethnography Symposium: Ethnography, Imagination & Indigenous-Settler Relations

Co-Presented by The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography, and Performance Studies (Canada)

  • Professor Lee Maracle is the author of a number of critically acclaimed literary works and the co-editor of a number of anthologies including the award winning publication, My Home As I Remember. She is a member of the Sto: Loh nation. In 2009, Maracle received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from St. Thomas University. Maracle recently received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the premier’s award for excellence in the arts. Her latest works are: Celia’s song [novel], Memory Serves and other Words [creative non-fiction] and Talking to the Diaspora.

    Professor Sarah King – ethnographer, environmental philosopher, and anthropologist of religion – is interested in the role that religion and culture play in shaping human relationships to the natural world. Her areas of specialization include: comparative religion; place; ethnography and community-based research; Indigenous-settler relations in North America; environmental values and conflict; food justice and sustainable agriculture; and North American environmentalism. She is the author of Fishing in Contested Waters: Place and Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj (University of Toronto Press, 2014), and currently teachers in the Liberal Studies Department at Grand Valley State University.

  • April 6th

    3:00 – 5:00 pm: “Ethnography and Activism” – Workshop led by Sarah King

    6:00 – 7:30 pm: “Performance, Indigeneity and Canada’s lack of imagination” – Keynote by Lee Maracle

     

    April 7th

    10:00 – 11:30 am: “Storytelling and Activism: the role of imagination in transforming Indigenous-Settler relationships” – Roundtable

    • Participants: Lee Maracle (Aboriginal Studies, UofT), Megan Davies (Graduate Program in Theatre & Performance Studies, York), Martha Stiegman (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York), Deborah McGregor (Osgoode Hall Law School, York), Naomi Adelson (Anthropology, York)

    • Chair: Sarah King (Liberal Studies, GVSU)

    3:00 – 4:30 pm: “Contesting Place, Constructing Activism: examining the dispute at Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj NB” – Keynote by Sarah King

     

  • The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE); Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker Series; Theatre and Performance Studies Graduate Program; Department of Theatre; Office of the Dean, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD); Department of Anthropology; and Office of the Vice-Provost Academic.