UTM Indigenous Centre Events
Programming includes monthly UTM Indigenous Centre workshop opportunities and various tri-campus Indigenous-focused programming. See the calendar below for more details the current month's scheduled events.
All programs are offered with a hybrid model unless otherwise indicated and open to Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, staff and faculty. Contact Faith Desmoulin, Coordinator of Indigenous Programming, for more information.
Event Highlights
On Monday, Jan. 20, join us at the University of Toronto Mississauga for Thinking Out Loud Together, a special lecture and discussion featuring the Honourable Judge Marion Buller. A member of Mistawasis First Nation, Chief Commissioner of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Chancellor of the University of Victoria, Judge Buller will share her unique insights on fostering understanding, creating space for meaningful dialogue and navigating complex conversations that challenge and inspire us.
This event will be introduced by UTM Vice President and Principal Alexandra Gillespie and the Q&A will be moderated by U of T Provostial Advisor on Civil Discourse Randy Boyagoda. Together, we’ll explore how meaningful discourse can drive change, build community, and deepen shared understanding across diverse perspectives.
Event Details:
Monday, Jan. 20
2:45 – 4:30 p.m. (doors open at 2:30 p.m.)
MiST Theatre, CCT Building, UTM Campus
This is an in-person event with an option to attend virtually, but we encourage as many attendees as possible to join us in the theatre to fully engage in the Q&A. Registration is required for both in-person and online participation.
Register for in-person: https://uoft.me/baT
Register for virtual: https://uoft.me/baU
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We look forward to welcoming you for what promises to be a thought-provoking and inspiring event.
Hollow Bones: Screening and Conversation
Thursday, January 23, 2025, 7–9pm
Innis Town Hall Cinema, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto
Screening of works by Karthik Pandian and a discussion with Pandian and Mike Forcia
Pandian’s Lucid Decapitation is a multifaceted project which originated the in 2020 uprising in Minneapolis, and activists’ toppling of that city’s sculpture of Christopher Columbus. The project is rooted in long-term collaboration to address colonization, translation, responsibility, and accountability. Encompassing film, performance, and installation, Lucid Decapitation foregrounds the relations necessary for activism, and ways of creating culture in exile, diasporic, and settler colonial contexts.
Join us for a screening of new films by Pandian from within the larger project Lucid Decapitation, followed by a conversation between the artist and Mike Forcia. Forcia (Bad River Anishinaabe) is an American Indian Movement activist who lives in Minneapolis, MN, and collaborated closely with Pandian on Lucid Decapitation.
Accessibility: Innis Town Hall is a physically accessible venue. There are four dedicated spaces for assistive mobility devices at the rear of Town Hall, and the theatre has power-assisted doors. Assistive-listening devices are also available. An accessible gender-neutral washroom is located next to the café.
Presented in partnership with the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities at UTM and the Cinema Studies Institute. With the support of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
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Friday, January 24, 12pm
Collaborative Digital Research Space, Maanjiwe Nendamowinan 3230, University of Toronto Mississauga
Discussion with Karthik Pandian and Naisargi N. Davé.
Presented in partnership with the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities at UTM.
Anoka is a word in Dakota (“on both sides of the river”), Ojibwe (anokii; “working waters”), and Sanskrit (anokha; “unique”) that offers grounds for considering relations to place and community, which first arose in Pandian’s work from its use as a Minnesota place name. This discussion will address modes of collaboration across difference, drawing on Pandian’s long-term project Lucid Decapitation and Davé’s studies of social movements, intimacy, and desire.
Snacks and refreshments will be served.
Accessibility: CDRS is a physically accessible space with single-user and single-gender accessible washrooms.
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Winter Readiing Circle
Thursday, January 30, 2025 from 6:00-7:30pm EST. (Hybrid)
Indigenous Literatures Cafe’s Since Time Immemorial Seasonal Book Club is excited to meet again for our Winter Reading Circle. We will come together to read and discuss Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice.
The session will be held virtually and in-person on the U of T - St. George campus.
You can register using this link: tinyurl.com/CrustedSnow