May 12, 2025
8:00-9:00 AM: Breakfast and Mingling
9:00-9:30 AM: Welcome & Land Acknowledgment
Elder Mary Lou Smoke (Ojibway)
Organizers Miranda Leibel, Will Kujala, Phil Henderson
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”
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
9:00-10:30 AM: Is a “Critical Canadian Studies” possible? Re-Examining the project of self-knowledge in 2025
Blair Many Fingers, “Blackfoot Heritage Management Praxis: Aapaitsitapiiysinni/White Robe Weasel People Life Ways”
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”
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
Miranda Leibel
Will Kujala
Phil Henderson