Keynote speakers:

Dr. Kim Anderson will speak about, “Affirmations of an Indigenous Feminist: Motherhood, Masculinities, Re-Queering, More.” Dr. Anderson has posted "Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism and Culture" in anticipation of her talk.

Kim Anderson is an Associate Professor teaching Indigenous Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, Ontario. As an Indigenous (Metis) scholar, Anderson has spent her career working to improve the health and well-being of Indigenous families in Canada. Much of her research is community partnered and has involved gender and Indigeneity, urban Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous masculinities, and the convergence of Indigenous knowledge and water infrastructure engineering. Her single-authored books include A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood (2nd Edition, 2016) and Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings and Story Medicine (2011). Recent co-edited books include Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration (with Robert Alexander Innes, University of Manitoba Press, 2015), Mothers of the Nations: Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance, Reclaiming and Recovery (with Dawn Lavell-Harvard, 2014) and Kētsānawak eskwewak, Our Sisters: Walking with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirited Peoples (with Maria Campbell and Christi Belcourt, forthcoming).

Dr. Bonita Lawrence, talk title TBA. Dr. Lawrence has posted "Regulating Native Identity by Gender" in anticipation of her talk.

Associate Professor in Department of Equity Studies, York University. Bonita Lawrence (Mi’kmaw) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, where she teaches Indigenous Studies. She is a founding member of the undergraduate program in Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity (now Multicultural and Indigenous Studies in the Department of Equity Studies. Her research and publications have focused primarily on urban, non-status and Metis identities, federally unrecognized Aboriginal communities, and Indigenous justice. She is the author of Fractured Homeland: Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario (UBC Press, 2012) and "Real" Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native People and Indigenous Nationhood (University of Nebraska Press and UBC Press, 2004).

Invited Panels

• Decolonizing Feminism: Theories and Praxis
• Teaching Indigenous Philosophy

• Challenges to sovereignty understood as a nation-building concept
• Reconceiving empowerment within indigenous communities
• Gender and sexual differences within indigenous communities, including the idea of gender complementarity versus gender equality
• Intersectionality within indigenous communities: race, gender, sexuality, class, post-colonial
• Indigenous trans/queer identities: two-spirit, fa’afafine, mahoo, etc.
• Indigenous feminist critiques of feminist philosophy
• Cultural appropriation and the problems of feminists “going native”
• Ecofeminism and indigenous philosophy/ecofeminist indigenous philosophy
• Women and gender in indigenous cosmological thought
• What is indigenous, indigeneity, or native?
• Reparations
• Indigenous conceptions of education and feminist pedagogy
• Indigenous intellectual sovereignty and/or intellectual exploitation (such as bio-piracy)
• Human rights and indigenous peoples and philosophies

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• Challenges to sovereignty understood as a nation-building concept
• Reconceiving empowerment within Indigenous communities
• Gender and sexual differences within Indigenous communities, including the idea of gender complementarity versus gender equality
• Intersectionality within Indigenous communities: race, gender, sexuality, class, post-colonial
• Indigenous trans/queer identities: two-spirit, fa’afafine, mahoo, etc.
• Indigenous feminist critiques of feminist philosophy
• Cultural appropriation and the problems of feminists “going native”
• Cultural appropriation and cultural artifacts in museums
• Ecofeminism and Indigenous philosophy/ecofeminist Indigenous philosophy
• Comparative analysis of Indigenous conceptions of nature and Western thought
• Women and gender in Indigenous cosmological thought
• What is Indigenous, indigeneity, or native?
• Reparations
• Genocide
• Indigenous conceptions of education and feminist pedagogy
• Indigenous intellectual sovereignty and/or intellectual exploitation (such as bio-piracy)
• Human rights and Indigenous peoples and philosophies

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