This year the Forum takes place on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish People. We invite Indigenous participants from Canada and abroad, including Maori, Navajo and Inuit representatives to discuss their perspectives on digital technologies in relation to their knowledge heritage, particularly based on personal and communal experience. In addition to traditional knowledge transfer, the Forum will open discussions on the impact of global and local paradigm shifts and blurred boundaries in our digital age, and how they may affect the transmission of knowledge across generations. Participants might address modes of knowledge transfer, sites of resistance, forms of cross-cultural collaboration, and means of disruption of settler-colonial relations. In the context of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, what strategies and tactics for knowledge transfer are currently shared, or can be shared in the future? What opportunities for cross-cultural, inter-generational collaboration exist?
Welcome by the First Nation Elder, Ian Clothier of ISEA International
and Thecla Schiphorst, ISEA2015 Symposium Director.
Education Forum Part 1
9:30-9:45 First Nations Welcome
9:45-9:50 Welcome Ian Clothier, ISEA International
9:50-9:55 Welcome Thecla Schiphorst, Artistic Director, ISEA2015
9:55-10:00 Greetings Nina Czegledy Convener and Tyler Fox ISEA2015 Education Forum
10:00-10:10 Presentation by Jo Tito, Maori Artist, New Zealand
10:10-10:20 Presentation by Ninabah Winton, Navajo Artist, USA
10:20-10:30 Presentation by Stacey Aglook, Inuit Artist, Nunavut
10:30-10:40 Presentation by Dr. Dory Nason, Assistant Professor University of British Columbia
10:40-10:50 Presentation by Eldon Yellowhorn, Chair, First Nations Studies/Associate Professor, Archaeology
10:50-11:00 Presentation by Jenna Walsh, Indigenous Initiatives Librarian & Liaison for Archaeology, First Nations Studies, and Political Science W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Conveners:
Nina Czegledy
Tyler Fox
Respondents:
Sandra Semchuk
Ian Clothier
