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Living Through Violence: Indigenous Ceremony, Story and Art - (download poster)

February 22, 2012, 5:30 PM-8:00 PM

Liu Institute for Global Issues
6476 NW Marine Dr, UBC

This special panel brings together Indigenous elders, scholars, and practitioners to consider how Indigenous peoples in Canada use their own culturally specific ceremonies, protocols, storytelling, and art to address the violent history and legacy of Canada's Indian residential school system. Living through violence in this context involves reclaiming and revitalizing memory practices and performances of social repair that are rooted in Indigenous knowledge and governance systems, law ways, and oral traditions.

Panelists:
Dr. Andrea Walsh (Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Anthropology).
Sulsa'meeth (Cultural Protocol Liaison, First Peoples House)
Tousilum (Elder in Residence, First Peoples House)
Qwul'sih'yah'maht, Dr. Robina Thomas (Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, School of Social Work).
Gregory Younging (Assistant Professor at UBC, Indigenous Studies, and Assistant Director of Research for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada).

Opening by: Rose Point (Musqueam elder).

Moderated by: Brenda Ireland (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Research Manager).
Comments by: Elizabeth Jelin (Senior Researcher, National Council of Scientific and Technological Research, CONICET - IDES, Argentina) and Jeff Corntassel (Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Indigenous Governance)

***Reception to follow***

Please RSVP to:
http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/events/register.htm 

Download the program (pdf 50 KB)

This public event is part of the Wall Exploratory Workshop organized by Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Erin Baines and Paulette Reagan, and is funded by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and co-sponsored by SSHRC.