BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Springshare//LibCal//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Vancouver
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20210225T030000Z
DTEND:20210225T043000Z
DTSTAMP:20210224T000000Z
SUMMARY:Honouring Indigenous Writers Kick-off Event and Reading with Smokii Sumac and Daniel Heath Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, February 24th from 7:00-8:30pm for the 
 Honouring Indigenous Writers Kickoff event with a reading by Smokii Sumac\, 
 followed by a conversation with special guest Daniel Heath Justice.\n\n 
 \n\nSmokii Sumac (Ktunaxa) is a poet and PhD Candidate in Indigenous 
 Studies at Trent University\, where his work centers on the question how do 
 we come home? As an Indigenous adoptee\, intergenerational residential 
 school survivor\, and two-spirit person\, Smokii's lived experiences are 
 deeply embedded into his art and research. His first poetry collection\, 
 you are enough: love poems for the end of the world\, (Kegedonce Press\, 
 2018) won an Indigenous Voices Award for published poetry\, and Smokii has 
 recently been named as a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize. Currently 
 teaching at College of the Rockies in Cranbrook\, BC\, Smokii is extremely 
 grateful to be living in ʔamaʔkis Ktunaxa (Ktunaxa territories)\, where 
 he and his cat\, Miss Magoo\, have recently (and begrudgingly\, on Magoo's 
 part) added a new family member: a "big ole rez dog" named Kootenay 
 Lou.\n\n \n\n\n\nDaniel Heath Justice is a Colorado-born Canadian citizen 
 of the Cherokee Nation/ ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ. He received his B.A. from 
 the University of Northern Colorado and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the 
 University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Before coming to UBC\, he spent ten years 
 as a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of 
 Toronto in Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory\, where he was also an 
 affiliate of the Aboriginal Studies Program.Daniel currently holds the 
 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture at 
 UBC on unceded Musqueam territory. His most recent book is Why Indigenous 
 Literatures Matter\, a literary manifesto about the way Indigenous writing 
 works in the world. He is the author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A 
 Cherokee Literary History and numerous essays and reviews in the field of 
 Indigenous literary studies\, and he is co-editor of a number of critical 
 and creative anthologies and journals\, including the award-winning The 
 Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature (with James H. Cox) and 
 Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (with Qwo-Li 
 Driskill\, Deborah Miranda\, and Lisa Tatonetti). Other writings include 
 the animal cultural history Badger in the celebrated Animal series from 
 Reaktion Books (UK) and the Indigenous epic fantasy novel\, The Way of 
 Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles. Daniel’s current projects 
 include Raccoon (also in Reaktion’s Animal Series)\, a collection of 
 essays titled This Hummingbird Heart: Indigenous Writing\, Wonder\, and 
 Desire\, an edited collection on Indigenous land privatization and 
 allotment co-edited with White Earth Ojibwe historian Jean M. O’Brien\, 
 and a long-gestating Indigenous steampunk novel.\n\n \n\nThis event is part 
 of the Honouring Indigenous Writers on Wikipedia event\, which seeks to 
 improve the coverage of Indigenous writers on Wikipedia and to encourage 
 diverse community editors to actively work to dissuade assumptions about 
 Indigenous literature by raising their profile in this increasingly 
 influential information source. This year\, instead of our annual Wikipedia 
 Edit-a-thon we have put together a schedule of author readings and 
 workshops throughout the month of March\, as well as asynchronous Wikipedia 
 editing challenges designed to be easily accessed and doable online 
 whenever you have time. You can read more about these events 
 here.\n\nLocation Details\n\n\n	Location:\n	*ONLINE*\n\n\nIf you have any 
 questions\, concerns\, or accessibility needs please email 
 open.ubc@ubc.ca\n\nThis event is online. Registrants receive the link 3 
 hours before the event. Registration closes at the same time.
ORGANIZER;CN="Scholarly Communications Unit":MAILTO:scholarly.communications@ubc.ca
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week , Open Scholarship
CONTACT;CN="Scholarly Communications Unit":MAILTO:scholarly.communications@ubc.ca
STATUS:CONFIRMED
UID:LibCal-3595894
URL:https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3595894
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT15M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR