The 51st Annual Trent Temagami Colloquium
September 21 to 24, 2023
Call for Graduate Student Presentations:
2023 Colloquium Theme: “Living Relationships: Indigenous Rights, Reconciliation, and the Land”
The Trent Temagami Colloquium is an interdisciplinary academic conference and workshop about socio-ecological relationships between people and place. It focuses on the history and contemporary issues of Indigenous self-determination in n’Dakimenan, the traditional territory of the Teme Augama Anishinaabe (in Northern Ontario) where we gather. The colloquium also includes presentations that consider socio-ecological relationships between communities and territories more broadly, bringing in perspectives from diverse fields, including political economy, the arts, environmental sciences, and literature.
In addition to an academic conference, the colloquium is a four-day field trip, during which undergraduate, graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni from Trent University and Carleton University join experienced trip-leaders, members of the Teme Augama Anishinaabe, and members of the extended Camp Wanapitei community, to enjoy the lands and waters of n’Dakimenan. Activities include canoeing, walking, swimming, hiking, campfires, poetry readings, music and a square dance on the Saturday night. Participants stay in Camp Wanapitei camp cabins, or in the Wanapitei Chateau. Wanapitei is accessible via bus or car on the rough gravel Red Squirrel road.
Graduate students are invited to present current or recently completed research as part of a series of panels to take place over the course of the Colloquium. Presentations related to the conference theme “Living Relationships: Indigenous Rights, Reconciliation, and the Land” are especially welcome. These can speak to efforts to further reconciliation between settlers and Indigenous peoples in specific contexts, or they can speak to Indigenous engagement in environmental and resource issues more broadly, whether in Canada or elsewhere in the world. Presentations are also invited on a broader range of topics, and from a variety of disciplines or interdisciplinary perspectives, connected to the broad theme of socio-ecological relationships between people and place. Presentations on ethical, epistemological, and methodological issues related to undertaking research or activism on Indigenous issues, Indigenous-settler relations, or socio-ecological relations more broadly, are also welcome.
Colloquium fees are $150 for students and $250 for non-students, which includes all food, lodging and guided wilderness excursions. (Children 12 and under are $100). Transportation to the camp (Thursday morning to Sunday evening) can be arranged for Trent and Carleton University students.
Interested in presenting? Please send a title and abstract (max 250 words) by Friday, August 18 to Peter Andree (peter.andree@carleton.ca) or Stephen Hill (stephenhill@trentu.ca). Presenters will be selected and notified by September 1, 2023. Questions can also be directed to Peter or Stephen.