Thursday April 10th
8:30 AM - Breakfast Registration
9:00 AM - Welcome
9:30-10:30 AM - Keynote Speaker
- Dr. Melissa Walls (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
10:30 AM -12 PM - Panel I: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Integrating knowledges
- Ian Her Many Horses (Assistant Teaching Professor, CS: University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Bethany Hughes (Assistant Professor, Theater/Performance Studies: University of Michigan)
- Dr. Diego Arispe-Buzan (Assistant Professor & Faculty Fellow, Anthropology: Northwestern University)
- Moderator – Dr. Michael Turcios (Assistant Professor, RTVF: Northwestern University)
This panel highlights scholars who are incorporating Indigenous methods and knowledges within and across a range of disciplines. The panel is intended to highlight key insights and issues in their specific work as well as to explore the variety of methodological approaches in their disciplines. Scholars on this panel reflect communication studies, anthropology, theater, heritage language and computer science.
12-1 PM - Lunch
1pm-1:30pm Project Highlight
The Ojibwe Muzzeniegun Digital Archive (or Literary Voyager) by Kelly Wisecup and team members
1:30-2:30 PM - Research Poster Presentations
2:30 PM - Networking Break
3-4:30 PM- Panel II: Maternal Health: the well-being of the next generation
- Dr. Deana Around Him (DrPH, ScM, Research Scholar: Indigenous Children, Youth and Families)
- Camie Goldhammer (MSW, LICSW, IBCLC: Clinical Social Worker & founding executive director, Hummingbird Indigenous Family services)
- Moderator – Dr. Melissa Walls
Improving the well-being of mothers, infants, and children is an important public health goal for most communities and especially the Indigenous community given our specific histories and challenges. Mothers’ well-being consequentially shapes the health of the next generation and can impact future public health challenges for families, communities, and the healthcare system.
6:00 PM - Dinner