Welcome to the 16th Bi-Annual Inuit Studies Conference. As Inuit become vocal within the academic community and formulate their own understandings of themselves in the world, Inuit are Imagining Inuit. The scholarly community is responding to this changing reality by Imagining Inuit in new and exciting ways. This conference is a convergence of Inuit Imaginings as we will speak to the great variety of ways in which we view and understand each other creatively and intellectually.
Introduction:The Inuit Studies Conferences began in 1978 in Quebec City when members of the Inuksiutiit Katimajiit invited scholars to meet and share their research concerning Inuit. The conference has always framed itself as a "scientific" meeting of researchers and has met every two years since then in different cities worldwide. There are clusters ofresearchers focusing on Inuit studies all over the world including various communities in the Circumpolar North. At the 2006 meeting of the Fifteenth Inuit Studies Conference, Professors Peter Kulchyski and Chris Trott invited the conference to be hosted in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Winnipeg is an ideal location for a number of reasons. We not only have a large number of people working in the field in this city, but we are also home to some of the finest research collections of Inuit art and history. The Winnipeg Art Galleryholds the largest publicly owned collection of Inuit art in the world, in addition to the extensive Hudson’s Bay Company archives and ethnographic holdings at the Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg provides a rich and vibrant backdrop for Imagining Inuit Imagining.
Theme:The theme of the 16th Bi-Annual Inuit Studies Association conference hosted at the University of Manitoba is Imagining Inuit Imagining. By this we refer simultaneously to investigations of Inuit culture marking the place of Inuit within the western imagination (imagining Inuit); discussion and reflection on Inuit imaginative productions (Inuit imaginings); and examination of the place of Inuit imagination in Qallunaat constructions or the way in which Inuit imagination is imagined (imagining Inuit imagining).
Imagining is to be taken in its broadest sense, not only as a reference to creative works but also how both Qallunaat and Inuit imagine each other through theory. Sessions span academic disciplines, crossing the social sciences and humanities, to arrive at a deeper understanding of Imagining Inuit Imagining.
Keynote Speakers:
Bernard Saladin d’Anglure,Since 1956 Prof. Saladin d'Anglure has worked among Inuit, initially in Nunavik and since the 1970's in Igloolik. His research covered a broad range of subjects from kinship and social organization to cosmology and shamanism. He is best known for his ground breaking work conceptualizing gender among Inuit. For many years he was Professor of Anthropology at Université Laval, and is now retired in Lyons, France.
Zacharias Kunuk, IgloolikBorn in Kapuivik, Canada, Zach Kunuk (Inuit) spent his childhood summers traveling and hunting with his family and his winters going to school in Igloolik. In 1983 he started working at the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, which is a regional public broadcasting organization that produces original programming, often in Inuktitut. In 1985 Kunuk began a collaboration with Norman Cohn. In 1991 they founded Igloolik Isuma Productions with Paulossie Qulitalik and Paul Apak. Isuma's first feature film, Atanarjuat/The Fast Runner portrays a traditional Inuit epic myth, in the Inuktitut language. The film won the Camera d'Or for Best First Feature at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, and six Genie awards in Canada, including Best Picture and Best Director for Kunuk. In 2004, Kunuk won the first Sun Hill Award for Excellence in Native American Filmmaking, a new annual honor from the Harvard Film Archive.
Peter Irniq, Peter T. Irniq, 53, is an Inuit cultural teacher and has lived most of his life in the Kivalliq Region, including Naujaat (RepulseBay), Salliq (CoralHarbour), Qamanit'tuaq (Baker Lake), Igluligaarjuk (Chesterfield Inlet), Kangiqiniq (Rankin Inlet) and Iqaluit. He has also lived in the Western Arctic, Manitoba and Ontario.
Agenda:
Wednesday October 22
Registration Check In/Evening Gathering: 5-9 p.m.
Room 108-Cross Common Room-St. John’sCollege
Thursday October 23
9:00 – 10:00 a.m Welcome/Opening of Conference
Welcome to AnishinabekTerritory and Opening Prayer,
Garry Robson, Elder-in-Residence
Keynote Speaker: Bernard Saladin d’Anglure (The Chapel)
10:00 – 10:30 Pause Santé (108 St. John’s College [Cross Common Room])
10:30 – 12:00 Session 1
1.1Art 1: Imagining the Future: Inuit Art in the 21st Century
Pat Feheley, organizer.
Nancy Campbell (Independent Contemporary Curator)
Ingo Hessel (Author and Curator of Inuit Art)
Leslie Boyd Ryan (Author and Director, Dorset Fine Arts)
Dr. Neil Devitt (Collector of Contemporary and Inuit Art)
Room 125 St. John’sCollege
1.2 Literary Imaginings
Room 206 -St. John’sCollege
Thibault Martin (Departement de Sociologie, Université du Québec en Outaouais)
“Seeing the World Through the Eyes of an Inuit Soldier.”
Keavy Martin (Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“‘Down South Among the Qallunaat’: Minnie Aodla Freeman
and the Tale of Kiviuq.”
1.3 Imaging Home
Building: 223 Aboriginal House [Boardroom], 45 Curry Place
Frank Tester and Paule McNicoll (School of Social Work, University of British Columbia)
TBA
1.4 Media and Language
Room 113 - St. John’sCollege
Birgitte Jacobsen (Department of Language, Literature, and Media,
Ilisimatusarfik /University of Greenland)
“Imagining Through Slang, Pidgin and Other Linguistic Means.”
Per Langgard (Greenland Language Secretariat)
“Taking the Tagger to the Next Level.”
Beatrine Heilman (Greenland Language Secretariat)
“Morphological Tagging of unedited Kalallisut.”
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Room 108-Cross Common Room, St. John’sCollege
1:30 – 5:00 Participants may chose to participate in one of three workshops:
1) WinnipegArtGallery– a tour of the largest publicly held collection of Inuit art and a discussion of the history of the collections.
2) University of Manitoba Archives– presentation on the Andrew Taylor Arctic Blue Books project and database.
3) Aboriginal House Tour/Film Workshop – Meet in the lobby of Aboriginal House
45 Curry Place. (Film workshop to follow at 2:30 in boardroom Rm 223).
Friday October 24
9:00 – 10:00Keynote Address: Zach Kunuk (The Chapel)
10:00 – 10:30 Pause Santé (108 St. John’s College [Cross Common Room])
10:30 – 12:00 Session 2
2.1 Imagining Relationships
Room: 111 St. John’s College (Quiet Room)
Florence Dupré (Ciéra, Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Université Laval, MoDys, Département d’Anthropologie, Université Lumière Lyon)
“Le nom imaginé: la parenté qikirtamiut contemporaine contée à travers ’image et les réseaux virtuels.”
Anne S. Douglas (Thomas More Institute, Montreal)
“It was hard but it was good”: The vulnerability of the “good” in contemporary Inuit life.
Laura Emdal Navne
“Imagining Inuit Motherhood.”
2.2 Imagining Space
Building: 223 Aboriginal House [Boardroom]45 Curry Place
Rob Shields (Henry Marshall Tory Chair and Professor, University of Alberta) and P. Steinberg
“Imagining Inuit Geopolitics.”
Michel Goedart ( l'Université Libre de Bruxelles)
“Mutations des savoirs géographiques, chez les Inuit de Puvirnituq.”
Emilie Cameron (Department of Geography, Queen’s University)
“Storying the North: A Critical Narrative Geography of Bloody Falls.”
2.3 Thinking Greenland
Room: 113 St. John’s College
Inge Seiding (Greenlandic NationalMuseum and Archives)
“Inuit Minds in the Narrative of the Early Colonial period in Greenland.”
Birgit Kleist Pedersen (Department of Language, Literature & Media, Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland)
“Greenland Images constructed through Photos taken by Kalaallit and Qallunaat respectively – cultural diversity in motion?”
Karen Langgard
“A Danes imagining the Greenlanders, Kalaallit, compared to Greenlanders representing themselves in the Greenlandic literature.”
2.4 History and Shamans
Room: 307 Tier Building
Kennet Pedersen (Department of Cultural and Social History, Ilisimatusarfik/ University of Greenland )
“The double secret of the shaman – The Fifth Thule Expedition (1921-24) and the construction of primordial Inuit shamanism (angakkuersaarneq).”
Peter Evans (Scott Polar Research Institute, CambridgeUniversity)
“Trouble at Okak and Hebron: Insanity, Shamanism, and Authority
in Northern Labrador c. 1938-1946.”
Ole Marquardt (Department of Cultural & Social History, Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland)
“Finding a Way Out. How did people in South Greenland adjust family sizes during the great socio-economic crisis from 1850-1880?”
David King (UniversityCollege Of The North)
“Francophone Nationalism, Inuit and the Role of the Anglican Church: A Study of the Transfer ofNorthern Quebecfrom Federal to Provincial Jurisdiction and its Resistance by Inuit, 1960-1970.”
2.5 Conflicting Imaginations
Room: 206 St. John’s College
Fabienne Joliet (Département Paysage, Institut National d'Horticulture et du Paysage, Angers, France) and Thibault Martin (Departement de sociologie, Université du Québec en Outaouais)
“What the Inuit know and what we think they know about the territory.”
Karin Johansson ( Natural Resource Institute, University of Manitoba) and
Micheline Manseau (Western and Northern Service Centre of Parks Canada)
“Inuit Perceptions of Safety in and around Auyuittuq National Park, Nunavut.”
Devin Imrie (Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba)
“Inuit Knowledge on Sea Ice Change in the BelcherIslands, NU: Adapting
to the New Reality.”
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch – Room 108 Cross Common, St. John’sCollege
Sponsored in part by the University of Manitoba Press
1:30 – 3:00 Session 3
3.1 Panel 1: Archival Photographic Collections
Room: 206 St. John’s College
Andrew Rodger, (Library and Archives Canada)
“Introduction on the Role of Archives and the Role of the National Archives.”
Beth Greenhorn, (Library and Archives Canada)
“Project Naming on the Web.”
Carol Payne (CarletonUniversity)
“National Film Board Project.”
3.2 Art 3: Winnipeg Imagining Inuit Art
Room: The Chapel, St. John’sCollege
Darlene Coward Wight (Curator of Inuit Art, WinnipegArtGallery)
“The WinnipegArtGallery: A Museum of the Inuit Imagination.”
Abraham Anghik Ruben (Artist)
“Three Generations: Changes in Contemporary Inuit Art and Culture.”
Bernadette Driscoll-Engelstad (Independent writer/curator)
“George Swinton: A PassionateSpirit.”
Shirlee Ann Smith (Former Keeper, Hudson's Bay Company Archives)
“The Hudson's Bay Company Archives and Its Contribution to the Study
of Inuit Culture.”
3.3 Education
Room: 125 St. John’s College
John Kilbourne and Elizabeth Kilbourne (Movement Science, GrandValleyStateUniversity)
“Building Bridges Using Education & Performance: The Canadian Arctic.”
Ing-Britt Christiansen (University of Greenland)
“What makes students stick?”
3.4 Imagining Cumberland Sound
Room: 111 St. John’s College (Quiet Room)
Karen Routledge (Department of History, RutgersUniversity)
“Imagining an Inuit Homeland: American Whalers in Cumberland Sound, 1851
1868.”
Carlos Idrobo (Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba)
“The Pangnirtung Inuit and the Greenland Shark: Encounters an Interactions with a Nuisances Species.”
Ian Mauro (Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Victoria)
“The Pangnirtung Summer Program: Embodied Learning and Place.”
3:00 – 3:30 Pause Santé Room (108 St. John’s College [Cross Common Room])
3:30 – 5:00 Session 4
4.1 Art 4: Envisioning Nunavut: Inuit Arts and the Politics of Culture
Room: 125 St. John’s College
Bernadette Driscoll-Engelstad, organizer, (Independent writer/curator)
“Imagination vs. Vision: The Cultural Politics of Inuit Art”
Judy Hall (CanadianMuseum of Civilization) “
“Charles Gimpel and Gimpel Fils Gallery, London: The Promotion of Inuit Art in Europe 1953-1972.”
4.2 Panel 2: Inuit voices in the Making of Nunavut
Room: The Cloister
François Trudel, Université Laval TBA
Susan Sammons, Nunavut Arctic College TBA
Thierry Rodon, Université Laval and Carleton University TBA
Louis McComber, Nunavut Arctic College TBA
4.3 Youth and Media
Building: 223 Aboriginal House [Boardroom]-45 Curry Place
Jette Rygaard (Department of Language, Literature & Media, Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland).
“An open wound. Intercultural discourses as the death agony of colonialism. Young people’s discourses at the internet about the countries and their own place in the global world.”
Sonia Gunderson (Fulbright Fellow)
“From the Arctic to Timbuktu and Back Again: Igloolik Circus
& ClydeRiverHip-HopHelpBridge Cultural Gap for Inuit Youth.”
Ali Lakhani and Honor Ford-Smith (YorkUniversity)
“How does the Inukjuak community experience Hip Hop? An
examination of the experiences of five students from Inukjuak, Quebec,
partaking in the ‘Hip Hop: Beats, Lyrics & Technology’ workshop.”
4.4 Imagining Institutions
Room: 111 St. John’s College (Quiet Room)
Carol Heppenstall (Adventure Canada)
“Beyond Binoculars: One Woman’s Perspective on New Ways of Seeing.”
Aldene Meis Mason (Faculty of Business Administration, University of Regina), Leo Paul Dana (Faculty of Business Administration, University of Regina, Faculty of Management, University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Ana Maria Peredo, (Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Victoria), Robert Brent Anderson (Faculty of Business Administration, University of Regina) and Jim Mason (Faculty of Business Administration, University of Regina)
“Innovation and Adaptation in Traditional Inuit Small Business.”
7:00 p.m. Banquet – at the WinnipegArtGallery Film: Exiles
Saturday October 25
9:00 – 10:00Keynote Address: Peter Irniq (The Chapel)
10:00 – 10:30 Pause Santé (108 St. John’s College [Cross Common Room])
10:30 – 12:00 Session 5
5.1 Art 4:
Room: 125 St. John’s College
Pascale Visart de Bocarmé (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
“Inuit artistic production: meeting place for cross
cultural representations.”
Roslyn Stanwick (University of Winnipeg)
“There is no word for art in Inuktitut.”
5.2 Women, Identity, Representation
Room: 206 St. John’s College
Michelle Luo (DartmouthCollege)
“Barbie and Changing Images of the Arctic.”
Sonia Gunderson (Fulbright Fellow)
“Women Imaging Women: Igloolik’s Arnait Video Productions.”
Amy Burzynski (DartmouthCollege)
“Katajjaq: Inuit Throat Singing and Cultural Identity.”
5.3 Youth, Language, Schools
Room: 111 St. John’s College (Quiet Room)
Louis-Jacques Dorais (Université Laval) and Pasha Puttayuq (IsummasaqvikSchool, Quaqtaq)
“Language, Community, and the Young Inuit.”
Paul Berger (LakeheadUniversity)
“Inuit imagine school change in Nunavut while nice Euro-Canadians resist.”
Hot, Aurélie
“Language and Creative Work: Inuit Youth and Digital Media.”
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Room 108 St. John’sCollege – Cross Common Room
1:30 – 3:30Inuksiutiit Katimajiit Business Meeting
Room: 125 St. John’s College
3:30-5:00 p.m.Film: Annie Pootoogook
The Chapel, St. John’sCollege
List of Presenters:
Presenter / SessionAnderson, Robert Brent / 4.4 / Martin, Thibault / 2.5
Berger, Paul / 5.3 / Mason, Jim / 4.4
Burzynski, Amy / 5.2 / McComber, Louis / 4.2
Cameron, Emilie / 2.2 / McNicoll, Paule / 1.3
Christiansen, Ing-Britt / 3.3 / Meis Mason, Aldene / 4.4
Collins, Catherine / 3.2 / Navne, Laura Emdal / 2.1
Collins, Kenlyn / 3.2 / Payne, Carol / 3.1
Coward Wight, Darlene / 3.2 / Pedersen, Birgit Kleist / 2.3
Dana, Leo Paul / 4.4 / Pedersen, Kennet / 2.4
d'Anglure, Bernard Saladin / Keynote Speaker / Peredo, Ana Marie / 4.4
de Boarme, Pascale Visart / 5.1 / Rodger, Andrew / 3.1
Delacretaz, Helen / 3.2 / Rodon, Thierry / 4.2
Dorais, Louis-Jacques / 5.3 / Routledge, Karen / 3.4
Douglas, Anne S. / 2.1 / Ruben, Abraham Anghik / 3.2
Driscoll Englestad, Bernadette / 3.2 / Rygaard, Jette / 4.3
Driscoll Englestad, Bernadette / 4.1 / Sammons, Susan / 4.2
Dupre, Florence / 2.1 / Seiding, Inge / 2.3
Evans, Peter / 2.4 / Shields, Rob / 2.2
Feheley, Pat / 1.1 / Smith, Shirlee Anne / 3.2
Ford-Smith, Honor / 4.3 / Stanwick, Roslyn / 5.1
Goedart, Michel / 2.2 / Tester, Frank / 1.3
Greenhorn, Beth / 3.1 / Trudel, Francois / 4.2
Gunderson, Sonia / 4.3
Gunderson, Sonia / 5.2
Heilman, Beatrine / 1.4
Heppenstall, Carol / 4.4
Idrobo, Carlos Julian / 3.4
Imrie, Devin / 2.5
Irniq, Peter / Keynote Speaker
Jacobsen, Birgitte / 1.4
Johansson, Karin / 2.5
Joliet, Fabienne / 2.5
Kilbourne, Elizabeth / 3.3
Kilbourne, John / 3.3
King, David / 2.4
Kunuk, Zach / Keynote Speaker
Lakhani, Ali / 4.3
Langgard, Karen / 2.3
Langgard, Per / 1.4
Luo, Michelle / 5.2
Marquardt, Ole / 2.4
Martin, Keavy / 1.2
Martin, Thibault / 1.2
Presenter / Session / Room
Irniq, Peter / Keynote Speaker
d'Anglure, Bernard Saladin / Keynote Speaker
Kunuk, Zach / Keynote Speaker
Feheley, Pat / 1.1 / 125 St. John's College
Martin, Keavy / 1.2 / 206 St. John's College
Martin, Thibault / 1.2 / 206 St. John's College
Tester, Frank / 1.3 / Aboriginal House
McNicoll, Paule / 1.3 / Aboriginal House
Heilman, Beatrine / 1.4 / 113 St. John's College
Jacobsen, Birgitte / 1.4 / 113 St. John's College
Langgard, Per / 1.4 / 113 St. John's College
Douglas, Anne S. / 2.1 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Dupre, Florence / 2.1 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Navne, Laura Emdal / 2.1 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Cameron, Emilie / 2.2 / Aboriginal House
Goedart, Michel / 2.2 / Aboriginal House
Shields, Rob / 2.2 / Aboriginal House
Langgard, Karen / 2.3 / 113 St. John's College
Pedersen, Birgit Kleist / 2.3 / 113 St. John's College
Seiding, Inge / 2.3 / 113 St. John's College
Evans, Peter / 2.4 / 307 Tier Building
King, David / 2.4 / 307 Tier Building
Marquardt, Ole / 2.4 / 307 Tier Building
Pedersen, Kennet / 2.4 / 307 Tier Building
Imrie, Devin / 2.5 / 206 St. John's College
Johansson, Karin / 2.5 / 206 St. John's College
Joliet, Fabienne / 2.5 / 206 St. John's College
Martin, Thibault / 2.5 / 206 St. John's College
Payne, Carol / 3.1 / 206 St. John's College
Rodger, Andrew / 3.1 / 206 St. John's College
Greenhorn, Beth / 3.1 / 206 St. John's College
Driscoll-Englestad, Bernadette / 3.2 / The Chapel, St. John'sCollege
Ruben, Abraham Anghik / 3.2 / The Chapel, St. John'sCollege
Smith, Shirlee Anne / 3.2 / The Chapel, St. John'sCollege
Coward Wight, Darlene / 3.2 / The Chapel, St. John'sCollege
Christiansen, Ing-Britt / 3.3 / 125 St. John's College
Kilbourne, John / 3.3 / 125 St. John's College
Kilbourne, Elizabeth / 3.3 / 125 St. John's College
Idrobo, Carlos Julian / 3.4 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Mauro, Ian / 3.4 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Routledge, Karen / 3.4 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Driscoll-Englestad, Bernadette / 4.1 / 125 St. John's College
Hall, Judy / 4.1 / 125 St. John's College
Trudel, Francois / 4.2 / The Cloister, St. John'sCollege
Sammons, Susan / 4.2 / The Cloister, St. John'sCollege
Rodon, Thierry / 4.2 / The Cloister, St. John'sCollege
McComber, Louis / 4.2 / The Cloister, St. John'sCollege
Gunderson, Sonia / 4.3 / Aboriginal House
Lakhani, Ali / 4.3 / Aboriginal House
Ford-Smith, Honor / 4.3 / Aboriginal House
Rygaard, Jette / 4.3 / Aboriginal House
Heppenstall, Carol / 4.4 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Meis Mason, Aldene / 4.4 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Dana, Leo Paul / 4.4 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Peredo, Ana Marie / 4.4 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Anderson, Robert Brent / 4.4 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Mason, Jim / 4.4 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
de Boarme, Pascale Visart / 5.1 / 125 St. John's College
Stanwick, Roslyn / 5.1 / 125 St. John's College
Burzynski, Amy / 5.2 / 206 St. John's College
Gunderson, Sonia / 5.2 / 206 St. John's College
Luo, Michelle / 5.2 / 206 St. John's College
Berger, Paul / 5.3 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Dorais, Louis-Jacques / 5.3 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Hot, Aurélie / 5.3 / 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
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