COSPONSORS

Our deepest gratitude to the 7th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Symposium Cosponsors:
Thank you for helping make this event possible!
Council for Race and Ethnic Studies |
Center for Health Equity Transformation |
Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience |
Environmental Policy and Culture |
Institute for Policy Research |
RISE Center |
Buffett Institute for Global Affairs |
Kaplin Institute for the Humanities |
Block Museum |
Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing |
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 |