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Reframing Indigenous Research and Living Treaties in the Humanities and Social Sciences
The 2026 Big Thinking Summit: Inflection Point introduced a new kind of Federation event. Built through an interdisciplinary open call for proposals, it created a national forum for exploring how humanities and social sciences knowledge can...
Reflections on EDID at the 2026 Big Thinking Summit
The 2026 Big Thinking Summit: Inflection Point introduced a new kind of Federation event. Built through an interdisciplinary open call for proposals, it created a national forum for exploring how humanities and social sciences knowledge can...
Nourishing Black scholarship, nurturing collective joy
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Introduction | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Introduction Something remarkable happens when spaces are allowed to feel more human—when they are welcoming, grounded in care, and shaped with intention. When...
Reflections on the practice of reconciliation
Guest blog by Crystal Fraser, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Classics, & Religion and The Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta.
Yáázǫ Kéorat’ı̨ (We see the daylight) - The Honorable Ethel Blondin-Andrew
Racism's touch: 'I can't quite put my finger on it' - Shirley Anne Tate
In an event organized by the University of Alberta's Black Graduate Students' Association, Tate will critically examine the academy’s ‘post-race’ sensibilities and question the quotidian transmission of racism through the flinching away from Black...
Participation, Representation, and Trust in Racialized or Marginalized Communities as Weapons Against Systemic Racism
Congress 2021 blog edition Systemic racism refers to racism that is embedded in the processes, laws, and regulations of an institution. It extends beyond individual attitudes or acts of racism to encompass broader patterns of harmful or exclusionary...
Erasure, Denial and Ignorance
Congress 2021 blog edition The “Hedging, Erasing, Absolving, and Other “EDI” Pitfalls: Recreating Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Policies, and Praxis” webcast at Congress 2021 was an open event hosted by the ReCreation Collective and University of...
How to develop a powerful and meaningful land acknowledgement
Congress 2021 blog edition Keith King, University of Alberta, opened the Congress 2021 land acknowledgement workshop saying “as inhabitants of the land, it's essential we explore relationships with the original peoples of this land, and to learn with...