Ariel.Gordon@umanitoba.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nA Q&A will follow the presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Participant Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nMQUP:<\/strong> Kyla Madden (Senior Editor) and Nancy J. Turner, editor of Plants, People, and Places: The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights in Canada and Beyond<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUMP:<\/strong> Jarvis Brownlie (Series editor, Critical Studies in Native History), and Brittany Luby, author of Dammed: <\/strong>The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nUTP:<\/strong> Jodi Lewchuk (Acquisitions Editor) and Miigam’agan, one of the contributing authors for our forthcoming book The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nWLUP:<\/strong> Siobhan McMenemy (Senior Editor) and Deanna Reder and Daniel Heath Justice (Series editors, Indigenous Studies Series).<\/p>\n\n\n\nParticipant Bios<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nKyla Madden<\/strong> is senior editor at McGill-Queen’s University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNancy J. Turner<\/strong> is distinguished professor emeritus and past Hakai Professor in Ethnoecology in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellow, and author of <\/em>Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America<\/em>. She is the editor of <\/em>Plants, People, and Places:<\/em> <\/em>The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights in Canada and Beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nJarvis Brownlie<\/strong> is a professor of history at the University of Manitoba and is the series editor for UMP\u2019s Critical Studies in Native History series. His research focuses on settler colonialism in Canada, Crown-First Nation relations, treaties, and oral history. With Valerie J. Korinek, Brownlie co-edited Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women\u2019s History in Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nBrittany Luby<\/strong> is an award-winning historian at the University of Guelph. Her writing\u2013both academic and creative\u2013is intended to draw attention to social inequities in what is now known as Canada and to empower readers to envision alternate futures. She is the author of Dammed: Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nJodi Lewchuk<\/strong>\u00a0is an Acquisitions Editor at University of Toronto Press, working in the areas of Anthropology, Geography, Indigenous Studies, Sociology, and Urban Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMiigam\u2019agan<\/strong> is a Mi\u2019kmaq woman of the Fish Clan from Esgeno\u00f4petitj\/Burnt Church Reserve on the northeast coast of New Brunswick, Canada.\u00a0 Her life has been devoted to Wabanaki cultural revival and to promoting an understanding of Indigenous matriarchal systems. Currently, Miigam\u2019agan is Elder-in-Residence at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She is a contributing author to\u00a0The Gatherings<\/em>, launching in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSiobhan McMenemy<\/strong> is Senior Editor at Wilfrid Laurier University Press. She has worked in scholarly publishing for over twenty years, during which time she has built book lists and edited scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDeanna Reder<\/strong> (Cree-M\u00e9tis) is an associate professor in the Departments of First Nations Studies and English at Simon Fraser University. She serves as editor for the Indigenous Studies series at WLU Press and was one of the founding members of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association. She teaches and publishes on Indigenous theory, life writing, pop fiction, and gender and sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDaniel Heath Justice<\/strong> (Cherokee Nation) is Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English at the University of British Columbia, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture. He is the author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History<\/em> (2006) and Why Indigenous Literatures Matte<\/em>r (which received the NAISA Best Subsequent Book Prize in 2018. Justice is also co-editor of a number of award-winning critical and creative anthologies and journals, including Allotment Stories: Indigenous Responses to Settler-Colonial Land Privatization<\/em> (with Jean M. O\u2019Brien), forthcoming in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMichelle Lobkowicz<\/strong> is Acquisitions Editor for Humanities and Literature at University of Alberta Press. 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