Education and the Future of Reconciliation

When:	Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Time:	3:45 pm — 5:00 pm
Location:	Richcraft Hall, Second Floor Conference Rooms
Audience:	Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty
Cost:	Free

This panel is a part of the Visions for Canada, 2042 Conference. You can learn more about the conference and register to attend by visiting the conference webpage.

In recent years, the concept of reconciliation has begun to shape political discourse in Canada. The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission emphasized the role universities and colleges have to play in the process of reconciliation, and called upon universities to provide students in professional programs with instruction on the history and legacy of residential schools, treaties, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal-Crown relations. This roundtable will consider some important questions about the ability of universities to play a role in addressing colonialism in Canada, including: How can universities become more hospitable places for Indigenous students, worldviews and philosophies? Is the “indigenization” of western academic spaces appropriate or even possible? What kind of long-term visions and objectives should universities pursue to advance a process of reconciliation?

Presenters:

• Larry Chartrand is a Professor in the Faculty of Law – Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa. His expertise crosses the fields of education, law, and Indigenous rights in Canada, with a particular focus on Métis rights, Aboriginal governance and politics, residential schools, and Aboriginal Constitutional law. He has published two books and several articles on these subjects. He is also currently serving as President, Adjudicator, and Founding Member of the Indigenous Bar Association Scholarship Foundation.
• Heather Dorries is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. She has extensive academic and professional experience in the areas of environment and First Nations planning. She is particularly interested in unpacking and addressing issues that confront planners because of the ways in which the planning process has been shaped by structural racism. She has addressed these issues in her academic research and also as a researcher for the Chiefs of Ontario.
• Hayden King is Pottawatomi and Ojibwe from Beausoleil First Nation, and a PhD candidate (ABD) at McMaster University. His research interests are related to land and resource management (particularly in the Canadian North) and Anishinaabe political economy; he has co-authored and co-edited two books, and published several articles in these areas. Hayden is also a noted Indigenous public intellectual in Canada, and appears frequently in the media speaking on Indigenous issues.
• Jo-Anne Lawless is Acadian-Mi’kmaq and a PhD student in the Department of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. Her research is focused on the experiences of Aboriginal students at Carleton University, and she aims to compile a history of Aboriginal programming so as to understand better the ways in which Carleton’s efforts address (or do not address) the needs of Aboriginal students as compared to other academic institutions.
• Patricia McGuire is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. McGuire’s research focuses on Indigenous knowledges, resilience, and social history. She has published on the resiliency of Indigenous ways of knowing, and she is currently exploring the ways in which dominant research and knowledge frameworks have supported the colonial enterprise, as well as the important role of Indigenous knowledge in disturbing this enterprise.