Please join the Indigenous Faculty Council听 and Interdisicplinary Studies at 杏吧原创 for the annual Madeleine K膿t膿skwew Dion Stout Lecture. The 2025/2026 MDS Lecture features the dynamic Two-Spirit, Oji-n锚hiyaw, author and scholar,听 Dr. Joshua Whitehead.听 Have some light refreshments and enjoy Dr.Whitehead’s thoughts on “Queering the Stone: Writing Apocalypse,”听 on Thursday April 16, 7 pm in Teraanga Commons Room 270-272

杏吧原创 Speaker

Joshua Whitehead (he/him) is a Two-Spirit, Oji-n锚hiyaw听member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary where he is housed in the departments of English and International Indigenous Studies (Treaty 7).

He is the author of (Talonbooks 2017) which was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. He is also the author of (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018) which was long listed for the Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and Canada Reads 2021.

Whitehead is the editor of , which won the Lambda Award in 2021.

Whitehead鈥檚 latest book 听was published in 2022 with Knopf Canada, exploring the intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, and, most prominently, mental health through a n锚hiyaw lens. The book was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers鈥� Trust Award for Nonfiction.

You can also find his work published widely in such venues as Prairie Fire, CV2, EVENT, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Grain, CNQ, Write,听and Red Rising听Magazine.

New date is April 30th, 2026

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Parking Information: P7

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The inaugural lecture was given by Madeleine K膿t膿skwew Dion Stout herself in 2019. Madeleine K膿t膿skwew Dion Stout is a nehiyaw/Cree person from Kehewin First Nation in Alberta. From 1989-1993, Madeleine K膿t膿skwew Dion Stout was the founding Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education (CACE) and from 1993-2001 was the first Indigenous professor within the School of Canadian Studies (formerly named the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies) at 杏吧原创 University. Dion Stout left an indelible mark on Indigenous communities, the 杏吧原创 community, and Canadian society more generally.

杏吧原创 the Film
ABU: Father is a deeply personal exploration of identity, family, faith, and belonging. Through intimate storytelling, filmmaker Arshad Khan reflects on the complex relationship with his devout Muslim father while navigating questions of culture, sexuality, migration, and acceptance.

杏吧原创 Film maker
Arshad Khan is a multiple-award-winning Pakistani Canadian filmmaker, and a graduate of Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His feature documentary Abu had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2017 and received 17 international awards. He has been to over 90 film festivals and has made several short films including shorts Threadbare (2008), Brownie (2011), Doggoned (2012), Zen (2012) and Valery’s Suitcase (2016).

Come join us for an evening of reflection, dialogue, and discovery 鈥� as we explore what it means to find freedom and compassion within the intersections of identity and tradition.

Light refreshment provided.

杏吧原创 the Lecture
This lecture weaves together stories of my family members to explore how Lokono maintained connections to their ancestral homelands and built new kinship networks away from their ancestral lands in post- independence Guyana. In the latter part of the 20th century increased migration transformed Indigenous communities and Indigenous women played a key role in supporting their communities. I begin with my mother’s story and end with mine. In between are stories of family members whose lives were shaped by the Amerindian Acts and government development policies.

杏吧原创 the Speaker
Shenella (she/her) is a Lokono and Afro-Guyanese scholar. She is a lecturer in the Indigenous Studies Program at 杏吧原创 University where she teaches courses on Indigenous-Settler Encounters, Indigenous Relationalities, Kinships and Knowledges, and Indigenous Sovereignties. Her current research explores intersections between histories of Indigeneity and Blackness through discussion of the complex relations between Indigenous peoples, Afro- Guyanese, and Indo-Guyanese; Afro-Indigeneity; and the African diaspora-centered nationalism that emerged in the early decades of Guyana’s independence. Shenella is also a member of the Great Lakes Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures and has worked with Lokono, Kalina, and Garifuna communities and organizations in the Caribbean. Her work with Indigenous communities and organizations has helped to shape her approach to building global Indigenous solidarities through learning, teaching, and activism.

听Professor Emeritus from the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, will visit 杏吧原创 to deliver a talk entitled, “The work of art in postcolonial imagination: Notes towards globalizing curriculum and aesthetics.” Dr. McCarthy’s talk will explore the significance of postcolonial art for thinking about the challenges of modern life and the school curriculum. His lecture raises and discusses the following question: what theoretical and practical purchase might an ethnographic evaluation of postcolonial art yield? To advance this line of inquiry, Dr. McCarthy will examine postcolonial exemplars: novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, and musicians from the Global South and the periphery of the metropole. His talk will address anti-Blackness, visual cultures, and public pedagogy.

Wolf Babe in conversation with Dr. Carmen Robertson ( Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Visual and Material Culture)

杏吧原创
Join Wolf Babe, an Anishinaabe/Nehiyaw/Haudenosaunee artist collective of four powerful individuals as they discuss how their art practice furthers the possibilities of education in and outside of Institutions. Dr. Carmen Robertson (Scots-Lakota), Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Visual and Material Culture will moderate this discussion.

Light refreshments after the lecture | Open to all.

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The inaugural lecture was given by Madeleine K膿t膿skwew Dion Stout herself in 2019. Madeleine K膿t膿skwew Dion Stout is a nehiyaw/Cree person from Kehewin First Nation in Alberta. From 1989-1993, Madeleine K膿t膿skwew Dion Stout was the founding Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education (CACE) and from 1993-2001 was the first Indigenous professor within the School of Canadian Studies (now named the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies) at 杏吧原创 University. Dion Stout has left an indelible mark on Indigenous communities, the 杏吧原创 community, and Canadian society more generally.

Abstract

Accompanying the rapidly deteriorating conflict and humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo over the past few weeks have been the essentialized Western media images that deploy overly simplistic interpretive framework for understanding this unfolding emergency. This conversation aims to critically examine and situate this emergent reality within the contradictions embedded in the current national, regional and global order, and to provide a platform for alternative imaginations and collective political action.

Come ready with your questions and suggestions on what is needed to foster peace and security in eastern Congo.

Moderator:
Paul Mkandawire (Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, 杏吧原创 University)

Networking opportunity and light refreshments provided.

Attendance is FREE, Registration encouraged.

Singing Back the Buffalo is a timely movie that presents multiple communities鈥� commitment in the rematriation of buffalo herds to North America.

A post-screening conversation will be moderated by 杏吧原创 Professor and award-winning CBC broadcaster Duncan McCue.

Refreshment provided.

This discussion is the first in a a series of three conversations organized by Carmen Robertson and Danielle Printup, in anticipation of Runs in the Family, a group exhibition curated by Carmen Robertson and Hanako Hubbard-Radulovich and presented at CUAG in fall 2025. More information

This conversation is free and open to everyone. No registration is required. Light refreshments will be provided.

This event is part of Stonecroft Semester: The Art of Connection. More info .

Please register here (registrants will also receive a zoom link):

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Suggested reading:

• Excerpt from The Tenant Class: 鈥淭here is no Housing Crisis鈥� (听in The Walrus)
• 鈥淭he Liberal government鈥檚 unshakable support for private housing markets鈥� (Dec. 2023 in .)

Ricardo Tranjan is a political economist and senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Previously, Tranjan managed Toronto鈥檚 Poverty Reduction Strategy and briefly taught at universities in Ontario and Quebec. His early academic work focused on economic development in Brazil, his native country. His current research is on the political economy of social policy in Canada. He is the author of two books: a scholarly analysis of Participatory Democracy in Brazil (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) and the national bestseller The Tenant Class听(Between the Lines, 2023). Ricardo holds a PhD from the University of Waterloo, where he was a Vanier Scholar. A frequent media commentator in English and French, he lives in Ottawa.

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