6th Annual Research Symposium
Thursday May 16th & Friday May 17th, 2024
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
The Women’s Club of Evanston
1702 Chicago Ave
Evanston, IL 60201
This two day symposium will feature Indigenous community partnered project highlights, poster sessions, roundtables, and panels. Topics include education, health, land, environment, and cultural heritage to help engage and reflect on the past 100 years and to imagine forward for the next 100 years. Invited keynote speakers are Duncan McCue (Anishinaabe), Canadian television and radio journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. There will be four panels with invited scholars:
Panel I: Taking Care of Our Lands
Panel II: Preserving Heritage and Memory
Panel III: Practicing Health & Wellbeing
Panel IV: Educational Self-Determination
SCHEDULEPresenters CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
WELCOME RECEPTION
You're Invited! Welcome Reception
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 | 6 PM - 8 PM
Northwestern University Segal Visitor Center
1841 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
Please join the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research for a welcome reception on the evening of Wednesday, May 15th, 2024. We will be gathering in Segal Visitor Center near our wiigwaasi-jiimaan (birchbark canoe) relative to network and connect with CNAIR community and early symposium arrivals. Heavy hors d'œuvre! Appetizers, desserts, and drinks! Free parking is available after 4 pm in the attached parking structures.SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Thursday May 16th
- 8:30am - Breakfast and Registration
- 9:00 - Welcome - Dr Megan Bang, CNAIR Director; Professor, SESP
- Land Acknowledgment
- Song/Drum
- 9:30-10:30 - KEYNOTE
- 10:30-12pm - Panel I: Taking Care of Our Lands 100 Years Forward
- Native American communities are at the forefront of environmental issues whether food sovereignty, forestry management, climate change adaptation or land, water and wildlife management practices. Learn about programs, policies and practices that are affirming and restoring critical relationships now and looking towards the future.
- 12pm - LUNCH
- 1pm-1:30pm - Project Highlight: Tribal Constitutions, Beth Redbird (Professor, Sociology)
- 1:30-2:30 - POSTERS SESSION/Round Tables: Research Fellows, Faculty, Grads & Undergrads and Tribal College Students
- 2:30pm - Networking Break
- 3pm-4:30 - Panel II: Preserving Heritage and Memory - 100 Years into the Future
- Cultural heritage professionals and memory workers bear a sacred responsibility to preserve, reclaim, and share Indigenous material culture and memory. This panel convenes museum and library/archive professionals to discuss the challenges they encounter, and the innovative strategies employed to safeguard material heritage. We will explore the evolving role of museums, libraries, and archives in Indigenous cultural heritage management, emphasizing the importance of indigenizing these institutions as platforms for generational equity and social justice. Panelists will share their experiences in community engagement and navigating new NAGPRA regulations, among other topics.
Friday, May 17th
- 8:30am - Breakfast and registration
- 9:00 - Welcome and Summary Remarks, Dr Megan Bang
- 9:30-11:00 - Panel III: Practicing Health & Wellbeing 100 Years Forward
- Eliminating chronic health inequities is a critical goal for Native nations, their communities, researchers, health professionals, and traditional medicine folks across the country as they navigate the entanglements of a settler society. Native communities are revitalizing traditional cultural practices, challenging western norms of health, and imagining community centered practices to cultivate to Indigenous health and well-being.
- 11am-12pm - POSTERS SESSION/Round Tables: Research Fellows, Faculty, Grads & Undergrads and Tribal College Students
- 12pm - LUNCH
- 1pm-1:30pm - Project Highlight 2
- 1:30pm - 3 pm - Panel IV: Educational Self-Determination 100 Years Forward
- Ensuring successful educational experiences and preparation of educators and educational leaders, requires intellectual and ethical leadership and support. Many Tribal communities are increasingly taking up education self-determination and activating their sovereign potentials of their own educational systems. This panel will share examples of successes and imagine what the new developments are and should be for education.
- 3:00 pm - Networking Break
- 3:30pm - KEYNOTE - Duncan McCue, (Anishinaabe) television and radio journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- 4:30pm - Closing remarks
