Indgenous Women's Speakers Series

The Indigenous Women's Speakers Series is co-hosted by the Centre for Feminist Research, the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages and the Faculty of Health.

Supported by the Office of the Vice President, Research and Innovation.

Since 2017, the series has highlighted scholars working at the intersection of feminist and Indigenous scholarship.

About the Speakers:

Kim Anderson, Métis, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Relationships. Her books include A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood (CSPI, 2nd Edition, 2016) and Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings and Story Medicine (University of Manitoba Press, 2011).

Dr. Jennifer Adese (otipemisiwak/Métis) is the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Métis Women, Politics, and Community, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). She is the author of Aboriginal™: The Cultural & Economic Politics of Recognition (University of Manitoba Press) and the co-editor of A People and a Nation: New Directions in Contemporary Métis Studies (UBC Press), and Indigenous Celebrity (University of Manitoba Press). Her work has also been published in journals such as TOPIA, American Indian Quarterly, SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures, MediaTropes, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society (DIES), Public, and appears in select edited anthologies on Indigenous land rights, colonization, art, activism, and resistance