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2018-01-06

Williams, Kenneth

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

West Playwrights Theatre (WWPT) is a well-known and respected centre for new play development in Alberta. They have recently began reaching out to the Indigenous community near Edmonton to develop new playwrights but don't have any Indigenous leadership or resources to reach larger Indigenous community

across Canada. The goal of the partnership is create an alliance between the Department of Drama and WWPT that will develop a workshop model specifically for Indigenous playwrights with dramaturges from the Indigenous community, through work on four new Indigenous plays. The project will invite an

2023-11-01

TallBear-Dauphine, Kimberly

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

. To address the problem of low recruitment, support, and matriculation of Indigenous science students, researchers across Canada and the US have been working with leaders in scientific and Indigenous Peoples' communities to create the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING). SING

Canada is week-long residential program that invites Indigenous participants to engage in hands-on classroom, lab, and field training in genomic sciences and Indigenous knowledge. The curriculum includes an introduction to advances in Indigenous approaches to genomics and its ethical, environmental

2024-01-31

Gareau, Paul

SSHRC CG awarded 2024: Building a Critical Indigenous Theory in the Study of Religion Network (CITSR) is a five day event activity that will develop a network for North American scholars who work at the intersection of religion and Indigenous studies. The aim is to build an international community

(i.e., intellectual kinship) among academics working to decolonize and indigenize the study of religion. CITSR will lay the foundation for promoting knowledge about religion that is especially significant for Indigenous nations/peoples and grow the study of religion in the academy. 14 scholars

(Indigenous and non Indigenous) from Canada and USA along with 4 undergraduate and 2 graduate students will participate in this event. Event activities include training sessions for students, a pre-workshop session where we will outline disciplinary and scholarly objectives and major issues in our academic

2018-10-29

Arppe, Antti

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

collaboration with their respective communities; namely, Plains Cree and Tsuut'ina. Partnerships are with the Maskwacîs Education and Schools Commission (MESC) and the Tsuut'ina Office of the Language Commissioner (TOLC). Our team of documentary and computational linguists, as well as Indigenous communities

2022-10-27

Donald, Dwayne

SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Canadians have recently been engaged in an intensified confrontation with colonial history and the systemic oppression of Indigenous peoples. Growing awareness of this troubling history has resulted in the creation of required Indigenous content courses in teacher education

programs across the country. These courses usually conform to conventional understandings of teaching and learning that share information 'about' Indigenous peoples, but often fail to provide meaningful and transformational contributions to teacher education programs. The fundamental problem is that

educational practices continue to be dominated by colonial worldview that blocks opportunities to learn 'from' Indigenous peoples. Colonial worldview is founded on relationship denial and proclaims Euroheritage knowledge insights to be of most worth. In light of this persistent and ongoing problem, the

2020-01-02

Mukherjee, Ayantika

2020-09-25

True, Micah

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

masked by missionary authors and editors. Indigenous sources are quoted or credited selectively in the Relations, and previous studies have assessed their contributions to the texts on that basis. As my own research has suggested, however, there is good reason to think that significant changes to the raw

material of the texts were made in both New France and Paris prior to publication, making the printed books an unreliable record of how---and what---Indigenous people contributed to them. Instead of relying on the Relations alone, this project will draw on sources that are related to the published texts

2017-10-13

McMahon, Rob

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

strengths-based approach to explore and develop, in partnership with Piikani First Nation, appropriate forms of Blackfoot (Piikani) digital literacy. The participatory action research project's data collection is grounded in Indigenous methodologies and built around the now, well-developed Piikani Cultural

2022-11-29

Dean, April

AFA OAPF awarded 2023: Currently the Fine Arts Building (FAB) Gallery has a lack of available budget to support curatorial innovation and research specific to the Gallery's programs. There is also a lack of representation of works, research, and solo exhibitions by Indigenous and Black professional

artists external to the Department of Art and Design in the Gallery. This project will emphasise curatorial intervention through a series of professional, curated, visual art exhibitions developed by and with Indigenous and Black contemporary art curators and artists. Each exhibition will feature artworks

2018-10-01

Smith, Malinda

The Diversity Gap in 2018, Where are the Equity Groups and the University of Alberta?