Thursday, October 14 | 12:15 pm – 2:00 pm
CLARI (Atrium 340) and remotely via Zoom
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Due to space limitations, participants wishing to join in person are asked to RSVP via studio@smu.ca. Covid restrictions apply. A box lunch will be available.
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Zoom link:
https://smu-ca.zoom.us/j/85447982577?pwd=eDBFMzltclpSM0dndVpIVkxNOTRjZz09
Meeting ID: 854 4798 2577 Passcode: 506468
Introduction: Dr. Malcolm Butler, Vice-President Academic and Research
Presenters: Raymond Sewell, shalan joudry, Diane Obed, and Shelley Price
Moderator: Dr. Trudy Sable
Faculty and staff are invited to join in our first of three dialogues to learn the challenges and issues experienced by Indigenous students at SMU. We will explore ways to shift the culture of the classroom to accommodate different ways of knowing and learning from an Indigenous perspective. Raymond Sewell (Winpegijuig/Papineau First Nation), shalan joudry (L'sɨtkuk First Nation) Diane Obed (Nunatsiavut) and Shelley Price (Labrador) will lead the session, creating a shared and safe learning environment to explore the culture of learning we create at SMU, and assumptions about what education means. The session will include interactive exercises, questions and answers, and introduce alternative pedagogical practices.
shalan joudry
shalan joudry is completing her IDPhD program at Dalhousie University bringing the Mi’kmaw language and knowledge of the landscape into her environmental research and work. Additionally, she is developing unique forms of knowledge sharing and mobilization through her poetry, music, and spoken word performances and podcasts. She is a renowned spoken word artist, playwright, and a published poet, and leads field trips and land-based programs based on a Mi’kmaw ecological world view. She lives with her family in their community of L’sɨtkuk (Bear River First Nation, Nova Scotia).
Shelley T. Price
Shelley T. Price, B.Comm., MBA, PhD is an Assistant Professor, StFX University. Shelley is an Inuk woman born in NunatuKavut, Canada. She currently resides in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq. Shelley’s work calls for trauma informed and culturally humble approaches to leadership. She works with Indigenous storytelling, collective and affective leadership, and land-based wisdom.
Raymond Sewell
Raymond Sewell is an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Literature and Culture at Saint Mary’s University. He teaches L’nu Culture and Literature, Indigenous spirituality, data sovereignty, Indigenous narratives, and worldview. Raised in the community of Pabineau First Nation, Raymond is familiar with politics, leadership, and networking within the community. Raymond currently sits on various boards including the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre, the NS Writer’s Federation, Neptune Theatre, and is Chair of the Canada Atlantic University Library Indigenous Committee. Reconciliation and the calls to action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission document influence Raymond’s life work. Raymond works with the Federal Government on reconciliation as a Knowledge Keeper and communicator in both official languages. Raymond is a consultant to theatre companies and is featured by many organizations.
Raymond delivers many lectures and performances continuously strives to be a community ambassador and collaborator on Indigenous world-view inclusion. Raymond’s teaching pedagogy is based in a'tugwewinu (storyteller) method. The style requires students to transgress normative colonial learning structures and to approach knowledge in a traditional L’nu way.
Diane Obed
Diane Obed is an Inuk woman mixed with white settler ancestry from Nunatsiavut, Labrador. Diane completed the Master’s of Arts program in Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary’s in 2017, and shortly after taught the Indigenous Peoples in Canada course in SMU's Anthropology Department. Diane is currently studying in the Educational Foundations PhD program at Mount Saint Vincent University.
