DAY 1 Day 2

8:30-9:00

Opening Greeting by Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer 

Welcome by Organizers

 

9:00-10:30

Keynote (on Zoom)

Chair: Catherine Lu

Mahmood Mamdani, Reflections of Settler Colonialism in North America and Africa

9:00-9:30

Welcome 

10:30-11:00

Coffee/Tea Break

9:30-11:45

Panel 4 

Chair: Ryoa Chung

Yann Allard-Tremblay, Consolation and Reconciliation: A Path from Whiteness to Humanity - On Zoom

Lorenzo Veracini, Relations Beyond Recognition

Olivier Samson, In What Sense are non-Indigenous Canadians Complicit with Settler Colonialism? Outline of a Form of Settler Repositioning Based on Responsibilities

11:00-12:30

Panel 1

 

Chair: Mohamed Sesay

Kelly Aguirre, Decolonization is Also Metaphorical: Indigenous Feminist and Queer Storywork

Rauna Kuokkanen, Transcending Settler Colonialism through Decolonizing and Gendering Climate Governance - On Zoom

11:45-1:00

Lunch Break* and Poster Session 

Location: Leacock ground floor lobby

Alexia Leclerc

Elyssa Khoury

Grey Lorbetskie

Jaymes MacKinnon

Maeve Notham

Robert Spadidakis

 

*boxed lunches will be provided to all participants

12:30-2:00

Lunch Break

1:00-2:30

Panel 5

Chair: Catherine Lu

Adam Dahl, Settler Colonialism and Cultural Pluralism: The Limits of Transnational Citizenship

Didier Zúñiga, Progress, technology, nature: Life and Death in the Valley of Mexico

2:00-3:30

Panel 2

Chair: Pablo Gilabert

Adam J Baker & Emma Battell Lowman, Corduroy Roads: Material Landscapes of Social Transformation

Tyler Caux-Loohuizen, Waling is Not (Just) a Metaphor: Relational Diplomacy Through Connection in Motion

2:30-3:00

Coffee/Tea Break

3:30-4:00

Coffee/Tea Break

Time in the sun

3:00-4:30 

Panel 6

Chair: Makonen Bondoc

Talia Holy, No One is Illegal on Stolen Land! Migrant Rights in Settler Colonial States

Brady, Kelsey, There Are No Such Things as Territorial Rights - On Zoom

4:00-5:30

Panel 3

Chair: Megan Bradley

Catherine Lu, Ending Wars, Ending Structural Violence

Mohamed Sesay, On the limits of (neo)liberal peacebuilding in postcolonial Africa: Historical structural injustices in 'postconflict' Sierra Leone

4:30-5:30

Break-out group discussions

5:30-6:30

Reception for everyone, including attendees

5:30-6:00

Public Roundtable following the break-out groups on Transcending Settler Colonialism 

 

The conference is generously funded by the McGill Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative, the Yan P. Lin Centre’s Research Groups on Global Justice (RGGJ), and on Constitutional Studies (RGCS), as well as the Centre de Recherche en Éthique ( CRÉ), and the Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique (GRIPP).

Image of Sponsor's logos. From left to Right: Centre de recherche en Ethique, Groupe De Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique, Lin Centre, Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative (ISCEI)

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