In the second installation of this year's DHN Lightning Lunches, Jennifer Wemigwans (Leadership, Higher and Adult Education), Karyn Recollet (WGSI), and David Gaertner (First Nations and Indigenous Studies at UBC), speak on their work in Indigenous Knowledge Education, performance in urban indigenous land relations, and cyberspace in/as a space for storytelling.

Speaker Biographies:

Jennifer Wemigwans is a new media producer/ helper, writer and scholar specializing in the convergence between education, Indigenous knowledge and new media technologies. Her work with diverse Indigenous Knowledge projects across Turtle Island break new ground in conceptualizing media studies and actively contributing to Indigenous resurgence. Dr. Wemigwans is an Assistant Professor in the Adult Education and Community Development program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

An urban Cree scholar/artist/and writer, Karyn Recollet’s work focuses on relationality and care as both an analytic and technology for Indigenous movement-based forms of inquiry within urban spaces. Recollet works collaboratively with Indigenous dance-makers and scholars to theorize forms of urban glyphing. Recollet is in conversation with dance choreographers, Black and Indigenous futurist thinkers and Indigenous and Black geographers as ways to theorize and activate futurist, feminist, celestial and decolonial land-ing relationships with more-than-human kinships, and each other.

David Gaertner is an assistant professor in the Institute of Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. His articles have appeared in Canadian Literature, American Indian Cultural and Research Journal, and Bioethical Inquiry, among other publications. He is the editor of Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe and Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island (with Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, and Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill). His latest book, The Theatre of Regret: Literature, Art, and the Politics of Reconciliation is forthcoming from UBC Press (November 15, 2020).