
SCHEDULE
NETWORKING & WELCOME RECEPTION
Wednesday April 9, 2025
6 pm - 8 pm
Block Museum of Art
Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
You're invited! Please join the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research for a welcome reception on the evening of Wednesday, April 9, 2024. We will be gathering at the Block Museum of Art on the Northwestern University campus to network and connect with CNAIR community and early symposium arrivals. Heavy hors d'œuvre! Appetizers, desserts, and drinks! Free parking is available after 4 pm in the attached campus parking structures. Symposium schedule for Thursday and Friday and panels are below:
SCHEDULE
Thursday April 10th, 2025 | Friday April 11th, 2025 |
8:30 am: Breakfast and Registration
9:00 am: Welcome by Megan Bang, CNAIR Director, Land Acknowledgment - Kennedy Naseem and Olivia Bailey, NAISA Co-Chairs, Prayer and Song
9:30 am - 10:30 am: Keynote - Melissa Walls, (Anishinaabe), Co-Director, Center for Indigenous Health and Professor of American Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University
10:30 am -12pm: Panel I: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Integrating knowledges
12:00 pm - 1 pm: Lunch
1 pm -1:30 pm: Project Highlight:The Ojibwe Muzzeniegun Digital ArchiveKelly Wisecup, Arthur E Andersen Teaching and Research Professor, Professor of English
1:30 pm -2:30 pm: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge Exchange: PostersResearch Fellows, Faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students from Northwestern, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and local partnership institutions will be sharing and presenting their Indigenous focused work
2:30 pm - 3 pm: Networking Break (Coffee service/snack)
3 pm -4:30 pm: Panel II: Maternal Health and the well-being of the next generation
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8:30am: Breakfast and registration
9:00 am -9:05 am: Welcome - Megan Bang, CNAIR Director
9:05 am-10 am: Keynote - Bryan Brayboy (Lumbee), Dean, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
10 am -11:30 am Panel III: Economic Development: Eyes to the Future
11:30 am -12:30 pm: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge Exchange: PostersResearch Fellows, Faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students from Northwestern, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and local partnership institutions and organizations will be sharing and presenting their Indigenous focused work12:30 pm -1:15 pm: LUNCH1:15 pm -1:45pm: Project Highlight:Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity Center (RISE)Jacqueline Schram, Director, Northwestern University1:45 pm -2 pm: Networking Break (Coffee service/snack)2:00 pm -3:30 pm: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge Exchange: RoundtablesResearch Fellows, Faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students from Northwestern, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and local partnership institutions and organizations will be sharing and presenting their Indigenous focused work
3:30 pm: Closing remarks and reflection |
PANEL DESCRIPTIONS
Panel I: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Integrating knowledges
Friday 4/09/25, 10:30 am -12pm
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.
Panel II: Maternal Health and the well-being of the next generation
Thursday 4/10/25, 3 pm - 4:30 pm
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.
Panel III: Economic Development: Eyes to the Future
Friday 4/11/25, 10 am -11:30 am
This panel features scholars, entrepreneurs, and leaders from Indigenous communities fostering Indigenous economic research and economic development within their communities and nationally. Their work is supporting economic sovereignty and improving the quality of life for Indigenous communities.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Melissa Walls, (Anishinaabe), Co-Director, Center for Indigenous Health and Professor of American Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University
- Keynote - Bryan Brayboy (Lumbee), Dean, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
ELEVATING TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE: Honoring CNAIR Fellows, Affiliates, Community and Tribal College Scholars
RESEARCH POSTERS, MINI PRESENTATIONS AND ROUND TABLES
Research Fellows, Faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students from Northwestern, Tribal Colleges and local partnership organizations will be sharing and presenting their Indigenous focused work