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Trent University's Annual Indigenous Women’s Symposium

Tue, 01/17/2006 - 15:57 | by Admin

 

7TH Annual Indigenous Women’s Symposium

Wii-gweyaakogewag Kwewag “Justice for Indigenous Women”March 3, 4, & 5th 2006Trent University

Peterborough, Ontario

Call for Proposals: You are invited to submit a proposal to present a workshop at Trent University’s 7th Annual Indigenous Women’s Symposium. Within the larger theme of Wii-gweyaakogewag Kwewag - Justice for Indigenous Women, there are four topics we will come together to explore:

  • Behind These Eyes: Explorations Of Identity
  • Voice And Visibility: Breaking Down The Barriers
  • The Earth On The Turtle’s Back: Indigenous Understandings Of Environmental Justice
  • Embodying Agency: Creating Change Through The Arts

Applicants: Submissions will be accepted from Indigenous women from Traditional Indigenous and/or academic educational backgrounds. We strongly encourage submissions from Two Spirited women, community activists, Traditional people, and artists.

Proposal Form: Please complete a form and submit it to us no later than Friday January 27th 2006.

Full name:

Phone number:

Email address:

Mailing address:

Topic under which your presentation falls:

Please give a brief outline of your presentation (presentation must be forty minutes in length):

Please give us a brief bio of yourself and a description of the work you are engaged in:

Send a copy of the completed proposal form to the following address for receipt no later than January 27th 2006 or e-mail by that date to:
Native Studies Departmentc/o Indigenous Women’s Symposium
Trent University
1600 West Bank Drive
Peterborough, Ontario
K9J 7B8
E-mail: christineluza@trentu.ca

Keynote Speakers are Chrystos (Menominee), author of several books including, Not Vanishing, Dream On, Fugitive Colors, In Her I Am, and Fire Power, and Sherene Razack, author of Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping and the New Imperialism, Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society, Looking White People in the Eye: Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms and Canadian Feminism and the Law: The Women's Legal and Education Fund and the Pursuit of Equality.

Please contact jocylenesutherland@trentu.ca if you wish to reserve tickets for the keynote address and dinner. Dinner will be served for a cost at Market Hall in Peterborough on Friday March 3rd 2006.

Panel Speakers include Patricia Monture-Angus, Bonita Lawrence, Edna Manitowabi, Shirley Williams, and Marrie Mumford.  

Accommodations: Presenters are responsible for their own accommodations.  

Travel Costs: Presenters are responsible for their travel to the symposium.

Food Costs: Morning snacks will be provided for free during the symposium.

Child-Care: Free child-care will be provided during the hours of the symposium. Please contact jocylenesutherland@trentu.ca if you have any questions about child-care.

Entertainment: The Trent International Student Association’s annual cultural show, Cultural Outreach 2006, will be taking place during the weekend of the symposium, as well as an evening play about the life of Penobscot performer and scholar, Molly Spotted Elk.

Please contact jocylenesutherland@trentu.ca if you wish to reserve tickets.