Ideas That Change The World Symposium

Panel Theme: Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Presentations and discussions within this theme will pull no punches, and promise to provide frank appraisals and critiques of where we have been and where we need to go to address critical issues facing Canada’s Indigenous Peoples and the entire Canadian society.

• Panel 1: Politics and Policy
• Panel 2: Education
• Panel 3: Socio-Cultural Development
• Sponsors

 

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Panel 1: Politics and Policy

 

Panel Date: Friday, August 8, 2014 Panel Location: Trent University- Symons Campus Gzowski College- First Peoples House of Learning (GZW) FPHL-117 Panel Speakers: Profiles » Event Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Event Admission: Symposium Details » » Purchase Your Symposium Tickets

 

Panel Description

Indigenous Peoples’ movements and initiatives are becoming ever more central to Canadian political, social, and economic life. From Idle No More to the proposed Gateway pipeline, from local efforts to ensure respect for treaty obligations to national protests against federal efforts to extinguish rights and shed obligations, “Politics and Policy” will explore the many past, present, and future tensions, and what will be required to resolve them.

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Panel 2: Education

Event Date: Friday, August 8, 2014 Event Location: Trent University- Symons Campus Gzowski College- First Peoples House of Learning (GZW) FPHL-117 Panel Speakers: Profiles » Event Hours: 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Event Admission: Symposium Details » » Purchase Your Symposium Tickets

Panel Description

The demise of the federal First Nations Education Act, with its rejection by the Assembly of First Nations, is but the latest in a history of challenges confronting the effort to ensure high-quality, accessible educational opportunities for children within Indigenous communities. The “Education” panel will also look at special initiatives in Inuit education, the legacy of residential schools, and the education of settler populations regarding Indigenous Peoples’ history and claims for territory and sovereignty.

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Panel 3: Socio-Cultural Development

Event Date: Saturday, August 9, 2014 Event Location: Trent University- Symons Campus Gzowski College- First Peoples House of Learning (GZW) FPHL-117 Panel Speakers: Profiles » Event Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Event Admission: Symposium Details » » Purchase Your Symposium Tickets

 

Panel Description

Both the “Education” and “Politics and Policy” panels will link closely with that of “Socio-Cultural Development”. This panel will look at such issues as the importance of Indigenous intellectual traditions and sovereignty as expressions of identity, the loss of language and culture, and how they might be reclaimed through the use of various media tools, and the implications of the restoration of Indigenous Peoples’ material heritage from museums and other collections.

 

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Thank you to our generous Symposium Lead Sponsors

Four Corners Group

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Thank you to our generous Symposium theme sponsors:

 

Critical Cultural Inquiry

Stephen Stohn '66

Future of Education

Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Life and Health

Sustainability & Environment

 

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Further Questions?

Please email 50th@trentu.ca or phone Alumni Affairs at 705-748-1573