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2018-10-29
SSHRC PG awarded 2019: In response to the well-documented threats to Indigenous cultures and languages, this Partnership project will support the revitalization and sustained daily use of multiple Indigenous languages by developing modern technological tools and resources for these languages in...
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2018-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2019: This project examines informal educational practices based in anti-oppression work done by South Asian Canadians (SAC) with the eventual goal of considering the potential of these relatively neglected sites of reconciliation as models for action in formal institutional...
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2019-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2019: In August 2018, a statue of Canada's first prime minister, John A. McDonald was unceremoniously hoisted from Victoria, BC's city hall steps, wrapped in foam and trucked away to a storage facility. City council was responding to concerns from Indigenous community members...
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2020-09-25
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: This project reconceives of the Jesuit Relations as the result of dialogue instead of the sole labour of dedicated, scholarly priests. It seeks to account for how the Jesuits' Indigenous interlocutors contributed to the texts, and how those contributions were subsequently...
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2017-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: This project addresses a hidden bias of mainstream teaching and learning, wherein Indigenous and locally-held knowledge is often positioned as the oral teachings of the past, in contrast to the contemporary character of digital literacy. The three-year project takes a...
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2023-11-01
SSHRC CG awarded 2024: Society, in the early twenty-first century, has been shaped by new knowledge of genomics, also known as the science of DNA, yet Indigenous peoples remain underrepresented in research and leadership roles in genome and other science, technology, math, and engineering fields....
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2017-10-12
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: From 1968 to 1985, a small division within the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (DIAND)--now Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)--pursued initiatives designed to encourage the development of Inuit literary production in Canada. At times acting without the...
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2023-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Two years ago our team undertook a small “side” project exploring the experience of grief among the IranianCanadian community in Edmonton in the aftermath of the Ukrainian Flight 752 tragedy that took the life of 176 passengers, and affected the Edmonton community...
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2018-01-06
SSHRC PEG awarded 2018:The project will create a partnership between the University of Alberta's Drama Department and Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, to create a methodology of dramaturgy for new plays by the Indigenous playwrights, through an innovative week-long development process. Workshop...
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Native Hawaiian Responses to 18th and 19th Century Leisure Discourses and their Haunting Consequences
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SSHRC Awarded IDG 2015: The project focuses on historical analysis of indigenous Hawaiians' [Kanaka Maoli] submissions to Hawaiian language newspapers (1834 - 1948). In 19th century Hawaii, missionaries' leisure-discourses were intimately connected with colonial structures and judgments about...