May 12, 2025

8:00-9:00 AM: Breakfast and Mingling

9:00-9:30 AM: Welcome & Land Acknowledgment

9:30-11:00 AM: To Know Whose Selves? The Legacies of Canadian Studies as a Project of Self-Knowledge

Daisy Raphael and Justin Leifso, “To Know Whose Selves? Locating the Symons report within shifting Canadian state forms”
Stephanie Latty (virtual), “Burying History While Digging It Up: Excavating the Ruins of Blackness in Toronto”
Vincent Wong, “Towards an Asian Canadian Legal Studies”

Chair: Kristine Alexander

11:00-12:00 PM: Workshop On Teaching Canadian Studies

12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch Break - Lunch Served in Great Hall

1:10-2:40 PM: Indigenous Sovereignty, Treaty Thinking, and State Formations

Daniel Sherwin, “The Origins of the “Indian Band” as Canadian State Institution”
Corey Snelgrove, “Modes of Treaty Criticism”
Blair Many Fingers, “Blackfoot Heritage Management Praxis: Aapaitsitapiiysinni/White Robe Weasel People Life Ways”
Danielle Gendron, “Canoeing as Methodology — Denaturalizing Canadian Land Tenure Systems”
Etienne Cardin-Trudeau, “Transforming Settler Nationalism in Québec: Recovering the Principles of the Historical Treaties”

Chair: Phil Henderson

2:40-2:50 PM: Afternoon Break

2:50-4:20 PM: Foundational Infrastructures- Law, Violence, and the Settler State

Megan Aiken, “Insidious Ideas: Understanding Institutionalized Discourse through Canada’s Drug Problems, Past and Present”
Stacie Swain, “‘I believe in the Indian Way’: The Criminalization of WSÁNEĆ Law and the Protection of Provincial Authority”
Jérôme Melançon, (virtual), “Residential Schools and Indigenous Self-Determination”
Éléna Choquette (virtual), “Inter-nationalising Canada: rethinking Indigenous-settler relations beyond settler states”

Chair: Miranda Leibel

May 13th, 2025

8:00-9:00: Breakfast/Coffee in Great Hall

9:00-10:30 AM: Is a “Critical Canadian Studies” possible? Re-Examining the project of self-knowledge in 2025

Sarah Stilwell, “Old Town, New Approaches? Reviewing and revising nation-building narratives at the Royal BC Museum”
Tom Peace, “Teaching Indigenous Pasts & Settler Futures at the University Museum”
Nassisse Solomon, “Let's Talk About Race: Teaching and Learning About Black Histories and Identities as Canadian Studies”
Neisa Long, “Digitizing Black Canadian History: A Decolonial History”

Chair: Jennifer Mustapha

10:30 AM -12:00 PM: Nationalisms and the Nation-State

Tyler Shipley, “Foundational Myths: The Absence of Indigenous Nations in Canadian Foreign Policy Studies”
Janice Feng (virtual), “Reimagining ‘Canada?’ E. Pauline Johnson, Indigenous Nationhood, and Refusal”
Zakara Stampp, “Beyond Multiculturalism: Reimagining Black Youth Well-Being in Southwestern Ontario”
Niloofar Golkar, “The False Promises of Canadian Interest”

Chair: Kristine Alexander

12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch Break: Catered Lunch at The Wave on Western Main Campus!

1:30-3:00 PM: Reimagining Political Futures

Brydon Kramer, “Enclosures of Possibility’: On student encampments and what they teach us about the University’s role on stolen Native land”
Stephen Gnanasihamany, “Imagining Futures Beyond Crisis: Expanding Political Imagination in Canada through Speculative Fiction”
Ritwik Bhattacharjee, “Sinking that Fucking Ship: On Settler Colonial Canada’s Pathological Present”
Michelle Sylvestre, “Investigating the Algorithmic Nation: Decolonial Feminist Performance as Anti-Canadian Praxis”

Chair: Will Kujala

3:00-3:15 PM: Afternoon Break

3:15-4:15 PM Workshopping Next Steps and Research Dissemination

4:15-5:00: Closing Roundtable