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FURCA 2024 - Schedule at a Glance

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Detailed Schedule

Poster and Oral Presentations

Poster Presentations: Main Floor SUB  |  Oral Presentations: Cascade Room, Lower Level

See detailed student presentation schedule »

This year, more than 130 students will be presenting at FURCA. Presentations have been scheduled along broad, multi-disciplinary themes, based on the information provided by the presenters in their abstract submissions.

All student presentations are open to the public, and they are a great opportunity for students to see real examples of undergraduate student projects.

Opening Remarks and Undergraduate Research Panel Discussion

Tuesday, March 12  |  12 - 1 p.m.  |  SUBStage

Curious about undergraduate research but unsure how to get started? Do you wonder whether undergraduate research is for you? Following brief opening remarks, we will be hosting a moderated panel discussion featuring undergraduate researchers from a variety of disciplines, who will share their diverse paths into research, and their experience with navigating and overcoming barriers to getting started - from tackling myths and misconceptions about research and who does it, to unpacking the challenges of the research process. This is a great opportunity to hear from students who have been there, and get answers to questions such as, “what does research actually entail?”, “how much does my GPA matter?”, and “how can I find a supervisor?”  Start your research journey here!

Undergraduate Research Involvement Fair

Thursday, March 14  |  10 a.m. - 3 p.m.  |  Main Floor, SUB

See exhibitor list here »

Looking for research opportunities and resources? The FURCA Involvement Fair is your chance to connect with researchers, funding agencies, and other organizations that work with undergraduate (and prospective graduate) researchers. Visit our exhibitors to learn more about research opportunities, funding opportunities and other ways that you can get involved in undergraduate research!

Keynotes and Awards Reception

Thursday, March 14  |  5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.  |  Cascade Room, Lower Level SUB

Please register here »

Join us for an evening of celebration as we wrap up FURCA 2024! Following our two keynote presentations, we will announce the recipients of FURCA presenter awards and the URI Mentor Awards. Refreshments will be served. Please register by March 8 to help us estimate food quantities.

Keynote Speakers

The keynotes for this year’s awards ceremony are Dr. Yelena Gluzman and Dr. Lana Whiskeyjack, who will speak on their research that embodies reflexive and collaborative practices to contextualize knowledge creation.

Lana Whiskeyjack

Keynote Title: Reconnecting to the intelligence of asiskiy

In nehiyaw (Cree) worldview, nehiyawewak (Cree people) physical bodies were created from the earth's and cosmic intelligence, therefore our bodies are imbued with the earth's wisdom. All living beings that come from our lands are related, what we call wahkohtowin, a foundational law of being a human of this land. My work as a spirit-centred community-based researcher is reconnecting to wahkohtowin (kinship), nehiyawewin (Cree language) and being a human of this land through visual storytelling.

Lana Whiskeyjack

Keynote Title: Reconnecting to the intelligence of asiskiy

In nehiyaw (Cree) worldview, nehiyawewak (Cree people) physical bodies were created from the earth's and cosmic intelligence, therefore our bodies are imbued with the earth's wisdom. All living beings that come from our lands are related, what we call wahkohtowin, a foundational law of being a human of this land. My work as a spirit-centred community-based researcher is reconnecting to wahkohtowin (kinship), nehiyawewin (Cree language) and being a human of this land through visual storytelling.

Lana Whiskeyjack is a scholartist from Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Treaty Six, Alberta, with an associate professor position in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta and is co-owner of Whiskeyjack Art House, located in Edmonton.

Yelena Gluzman

Keynote Title: Trusting Research

Research is often discussed in relationship to its objectivity, truthfulness, or generalizability. In this talk, I propose to instead consider research through the heuristic of trust. How did paradigms of (mis)trust shape what was thought of as good research? How can centering trust challenge us to expand knowledges, methods, collaboration, and participation?

Yelena Gluzman

Keynote Title: Trusting Research

Research is often discussed in relationship to its objectivity, truthfulness, or generalizability. In this talk, I propose to instead consider research through the heuristic of trust. How did paradigms of (mis)trust shape what was thought of as good research? How can centering trust challenge us to expand knowledges, methods, collaboration, and participation?

Yelena Gluzman is an Assistant Professor cross-appointed between the Dept. of Art and Design and the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Program. Her ongoing collaborative work with scientists investigates how “other minds” are staged in cognitive neuroscience experiments. She is also interested in non-automated talk-to-text systems, particularly in the case of human captioners who transcribe in real time for d/Deaf and Hard-of-hearing students.