Public Lectures

We are delighted to have four Indigenous Scholars representing Indigenous perspectives.

Thursday, May 26th, 2022

12:00 – 2:00 PM EDT. Panel with:

Dale Turner, Political Science, University of Toronto: “Indigenous Spirituality and the Limits of Language”

Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria: TBA

Friday, May 27th, 2022

Keynote: 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT

John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Victoria: “Learning Anishinaabe Philosophy from Nimishomis (my grandfather)”

6:00 – 7:30 PM EDT

Naiomi Metallic, Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University: “The Relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples: Where are we?”

We strongly encourage registrants to donate to INDSPIRE, an official charity specializing in Indigenous scholarships. A link will be in your confirmation email. For our records, please make your donation on behalf of the CS-IVR, in honour of the invited speakers.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP SESSIONS

In addition to the public lectures, CS-IVR members will meet to discuss papers circulated in advance. Twelve papers on the theme of the conference will be presented virtually on May 26-27. We encourage you to join and participate. Please contact us at csivrinfo@gmail.com.The annual CS-IVR membership fee ($20) is waived for students this year. A list of authors and titles will be posted the CS-IVR website.

Zoom Link will be sent shortly before the conference.

Papers Received

List of Abstracts

Nancy Doubleday, “Standing Ground for Common Ground: Choices about Positionality in Truth and Reconciliation” (file)

Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora, “Indigenous Legal Orders as Law” (file)

Michael Giudice and Xavier Scott, “Reconciliation and the Living Tree Metaphor” (file)

Fernando Lennertz, “MONDRAGON as an alternative business firm model for providing water services in Indigenous reserves” (file)

Corey McKibbin, “Constitution as Ecosystem: Revisiting the Living Tree Metaphor” (file)

Khalid M’Seffar, “Rethinking the (Aboriginal) Paradigm of the Dangerous Offender” (file)

Jorge Sanchez-Perez, “Bound by Other Means: Political Communities and the Overcoming of the Notion of the State” (file)

Arjun Sawhney, “Policing in the Age of Algorithms” (file)

Daniel Sherwin, “Territorial Rights and Grounded Authority” (file)

Paul Simard-Smith, “Structural Injustice in the Canadian Legal Order” (file)

Sandra Tomsons, “Responsibility for All-My-Relations or Private Property in Land?” (file)

Ignatius Yankey and Temitope Tunbi Onifade, “Behind the Doors: Inclusion and Exclusion of Indigenous Peoples and other Vulnerable Communities in the Pan-Canadian Carbon Pricing Policymaking” (file)

Commentaries

Comment on Sherwin (Giudice) (file)

Commentary on M’Seffar (Ramsoomair) (file)
Commentary on Nancy Doubleday (McKibben) (file)
Commentary on Sanchez-Perez (Ramsay) (file)
Commentary on papers by Tomsons and M’Seffar (Moser) (file)
Comments on Sawhney (Ashfield) (file)
Comments on Tomsons (Brett) (file)
Corey McKibbin’s Constitution as Ecosystem Commentary by Xavier Scott (file)
McKibbin Constitution as Ecosystem Commentary by Ben Nelson (file)
Shiner comment on M’Seffar (file)
Shiner comment on Sawhney (file)

NOTE: Link to the original call for papers.