Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium
Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement (SAGE) at UBC invites Indigenous graduate students, faculty, and staff to the UBCO campus for the 22nd annual Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium, a forum for interdisciplinary MA and PhD Indigenous students to come together to share their work, exchange knowledge, and build academic networks in a comfortable, supportive community of scholars. This year’s theme, Strength in Our Stories, highlights the power of Indigenous research and methodologies, as well as the revitalization happening across academia.
The symposium features socializing and an open-networking event on March 28, followed by student presentations and a keynote speaker on March 29.
Indigenous research and methodologies are seeing revitalization across academia. Indigenous Scholars from diverse communities and connections are pushing for their voices to be heard, and finding Strength in Our Stories. The conference has the following subthemes:
- Stories about our Ways of Doing: Indigenous Methodology in academia; story-telling within research; Indigenous knowledge revitalization
- Stories about our Peoples: Community-based research; building partnerships; being Indigenous in the 21st Century; hope and resilience in uncertain times; evolution of identity and connection
- Stories about our Land: Research about and within our lands and waters; land-based knowledge and practices; addressing environmental issues
- Stories about our Future: Research that is forward-thinking; addressing issues ahead; the future of Indigenous research
Registration Information
There is no cost to attending the event itself. While the Symposium showcases research from Indigenous Graduate Students, any interested faculty, undergraduate students, and staff are free to attend, as well.