Spilling Tea: Métis and Mennonite Conversations on Making Good Relations
- Jan. 29, 2025 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- Mayer Family Community Hall, Lougheed Performing Arts Centre, Camrose, AB & ONLINE
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Join professors Paul Gareau, Willow White, and Joe Wiebe for a discussion of positionality, visiting, and what it means to be good relatives in the context of secular and settler academia in the prairies. Their discussion will examine how spiritual and cultural identities shape academic experiences, and how Métis visiting practices can foster genuine relationships and understanding across Indigenous and settler communities. This event is free to attend both in person or online.
Paul L. Gareau, PhD is Michif-French and an associate professor and associate dean (graduate studies) in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Born and raised in the Batoche homeland, he is related to the Jobins, Bremners, and Taylors, and he is a citizen of the Otipemisiwak Métis government/Métis Nation of Alberta. He is married and has a two-year-old baby-boy Michif. His research focuses on Métis Studies and Indigenous Studies, nationhood/peoplehood relations and co-constitutive identity, and religion and relationality.
Willow White, PhD is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta with ancestral ties to Red River through the Inkster, Sutherland, Cook, and Anderson families. She is an assistant professor of English and Indigenous studies at Augustana, and her research focuses on the literary and theatrical contributions of historical Indigenous and English women.
Joseph Wiebe, PhD is an associate professor of Religion and Ecology in Ethics and Global Studies at University of Alberta, Augustana. His current project is researching the influence of settler colonialism on Mennonite environmental imagination and eco-theology.
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Alumni
Community, Public
Faculty, Staff
Undergraduate Students
Graduate Students - Category
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