Many Canadian institutions, including the University of Toronto, do land acknowledgements before meetings, before convocations, and at seminars and conferences. Why do we do them? What is their purpose? Are they an effective tool of reconciliation and decolonization? These questions will be examined in the workshop. Register [...]
This workshop builds upon participants’ knowledge of the objectives of settler colonialism and the attempted destruction of the political, economic, cultural, linguistic, and spiritual foundations of Indigenous societies and how these processes continue to drive the unequal distribution of resources between settler communities and Indigenous communities. Register [...]
This workshop challenges participants to reflect upon whose history they were educated to accept as the truth and about the settlement and nation-building of the country we now call Canada. Reconciliation demands that participants challenge these accepted truths to reveal the true settler colonial history of this country. Register [...]
What does it mean to be an ally to Indigenous peoples? Is it even possible to call oneself an ally, or is it more correct to say that one can only aspire to be an ally, as allyship is a continuous process of self-reflexivity, learning, and acting in a [...]
Many Canadian institutions, including the University of Toronto, do land acknowledgements before meetings, before convocations, and at seminars and conferences. Why do we do them? What is their purpose? Are they an effective tool of reconciliation and decolonization? These questions will be examined in the workshop. Register [...]
This workshop builds upon participants’ knowledge of the objectives of settler colonialism and the attempted destruction of the political, economic, cultural, linguistic, and spiritual foundations of Indigenous societies and how these processes continue to drive the unequal distribution of resources between settler communities and Indigenous communities. Register [...]
This workshop challenges participants to reflect upon whose history they were educated to accept as the truth and about the settlement and nation-building of the country we now call Canada. Reconciliation demands that participants challenge these accepted truths to reveal the true settler colonial history of this country. Register [...]
What does it mean to be an ally to Indigenous peoples? Is it even possible to call oneself an ally, or is it more correct to say that one can only aspire to be an ally, as allyship is a continuous process of self-reflexivity, learning, and acting in a [...]