On-Site Event Parking

A 600-space indoor parking garage is located directly across the street from the Clubhouse entrance. The address is 1715 Chicago, located in the Evanston Place apartment building. The garage entrance is at 525 Church Street (NE corner of Church and Chicago Avenues). The approximate parking fee for a 5-6 hour period is $6.00. The City of Evanston maintains a surface parking lot adjacent to the Clubhouse and behind the Evanston Public Library. This metered lot is open to the public. Metered street parking is also available. Download the “Park Evanston” app or use the pay stations for the library lot or street parking.

Northwestern University Parking

Parking is available 1/2 mile away in the Segal Visitor Center Parking Garage with a provided parking pass (provided by CNAIR) or by paying $8 for the day.  While it is a short 15-minute walk from the symposium, the Segal Visitor Center is also home to our wiigwaasi- jiimaan (birchbark canoe) and is located on the shore of Lake Michigan. 

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)

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

6:00 PM - Dinner

Friday, April 11th

8:30 AM - Breakfast and registration

9:00-9:05 AM - Welcome

10-11:30 AM - Panel III: Economic Development: Eyes to the future

• Shelley Tucciarelli (Executive Director: Visionary Ventures)
• Kelly Hallman (Founder, Executive Director: Indigenous Justice Circle)
• Megan Minoka Hill (Senior Program Director, Project on Indigenous Governance and Development; Director, Honoring Nations: Harvard Kennedy School, Ash Center)
• Moderator – Colleen Echohawk (President: Headwater People)

11:30 AM -12:30 PM - Research Posters

12:30-1:15 PM - LUNCH

1:15-1:45 PM - Project Highlight

2:00-3:30 PM - Panel IV

3:30 PM - Closing remarks