Nuna pigitjangittavut, nunattinut pigijauvugut / La terre ne nous appartient pas. Nous appartenons à la terre. / The land does not belong to us. We belong to the land.* 

June 7-11, 2021

#ilsa2021

This conference is happening on Zoom: meeting links will be emailed to registered participants.

Download a PDF of our Conference Program by clicking below:

DAILY: Relational walking practice with Prof. Dwayne Donald

DAY 1: MONDAY, JUNE 7 (click for full details) 

• Conference Opening by Elder Gilman Cardinal & Address by Marilyn Dumont: 08:00 PST / 09:00 MST/CST / 10:00 CDT / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CEST

• Keynote: ‘Reflections on Poetic Method and Decolonization’ by Billy-Ray Belcourt with respondent Daniel Heath Justice (co-sponsored by CACLALS): 09:00-10:00 PST / 10:00-11:00 MST/CST / 11:00-12:00 CDT / 12:00-13:00 EST / 18:00-19:00 CEST

• Concurrent panels A and B: 10:30-11:50 PST/ 11:30-12:50 MST/CST / 12:30-13:50 CDT / 13:30-14:50 EST / 19:30-20:50 CEST

DAY 2: TUESDAY, JUNE 8 (click for full details)

• Live recording of masinahikan iskwêwak/Book Women podcast featuring Tenille Campbell: 08:30-09:30 PST/ 09:30-10:30 MST/CST / 10:30-11:30 CDT / 11:30-12:30 EST / 17:30-18:30 CEST

• Concurrent panels C and D: 10:00-11:20 PST / 11:00-12:20 MST/CST / 12:00-13:20 CDT / 13:00-14:20 EST / 19:00-20:20 CEST

• Meeting of Indigenous Graduate Students: 11:20 PST / 12:20 MST/CST / 13:20 CDT / 14:20 EST

DAY 3: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9 (click for full details)

• Renate Eigenbrod mentorship brunch: 08:30-9:30 PST / 09:30-10:30 MST/CST / 10:30-11:30 CDT / 11:30-12:30 EST / 17:30-18:30 CEST

• Concurrent panels E and F: 10:00-11:20 PST / 11:00-12:20 MST/CST / 12:00-13:20 CDT / 13:00-14:20 EST / 19:00-20:20 CEST

DAY 4: THURSDAY, JUNE 10 (click for full details)

• The IVAs: Successes, Challenges, and Looking Ahead to the Future: 08:15-09:00 PST / 09:15-10:00 MST/CST / 10:15-11:00 CDT / 11:15-12:00 EST / 17:15-18:00 CEST

• Celebration of new books & honouring those writers we have lost: 09:15-10:30 PST / 10:15-11:30 MST/CST / 11:15-12:30 CDT / 12:15-13:30 EST / 18:15-19:30 CEST

• Concurrent panels G and H: 11:00-12:20 PST / 12:00-13:20 MST/CST / 13:00-14:20 CDT / 14:00-15:20 EST / 20:00-21:20 CEST

DAY 5: FRIDAY, JUNE 11 (click for full details)

• ILSA/CACLALS Roundtable on Black/Indigenous Solidarities with Tasha Beeds, Dr. Otoniya J Okot Bitek, Erica Violet Lee, and Dr. Barbara McNeil, with facilitator Smokii Sumac: 08:30-10:00 PST / 09:30-11:00 MST/CST / 10:30-12:00 CDT/ 11:30-13:00 EST / 17:30-19:00 CEST

• Concluding panel: Why Indigenous Literatures Scholars Matter: 11:00-12:30 PST / 12:00-13:30 MST/CST / 13:00-14:30 CDT / 14:00-15:30 EST / 20:00-21:30 CEST

*Our conference title is drawn from Taqralik Partridge’s curved against the hull of a peterhead (PS Guelph, 2020)

REGISTRATION:

10% of our conference proceeds will be going to Treaty 6 Outreach. If you would like to make a donation, this group accepts e-transfers at treaty6outreach [at] gmail.com

Registration costs are as follows:

Students, Community Members, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Sessional Instructors: complimentary ($0)

BCSA Members: complimentary ($0)

CACLALS Members: complimentary ($0)

Faculty Members: $100 +GST

We are grateful for your support of ILSA! If you need to renew your membership, or if you would like to join, you can do so here.

This event, along with the ILSA/masinahikan iskwêwak podcast book club, is made possible by the generous sponsorship of:

• the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

• the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)

• the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Languages Studies (CACLALS)

• Indigenous Education Initiatives at the Werklund School of Education (University of Calgary)

• the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)

• Wilfrid Laurier University Press

• University of Manitoba Press

• University of Regina Press

• Queen’s University

• Department of English & Film Studies, University of Alberta

Thank you to our sponsors!