The 11th Annual SMF Research Symposium will take place on Wednesday, April 10, 2024.
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KEYNOTE
Title: Gayenshragowa-The Everlasting Love
Abstract: The Hodinosoni/Haudenosaunee/Six Nations/Long House Builders are a confederacy of several Nations that came together under the principles of Peace, Power, and Righteousness. Prior to receiving a message of peace these Nations were all at war with one another. This wartime era is described as blood flowing freely upon the earth. During this hardship a Peacemaker was sent with a message of Gayenshragowa: The Great and Everlasting Love/the Great Law of Peace. The Great Law is a complex philosophy that establishes a set of “instructions” of how to live life as a good human being. The focus of this keynote will discuss the primary principle of the Great Law which is Ganikwiyoh-Good Mindedness and will provide insights into how it interconnects all of the critical values and principles of the Gayenshragowa. We will examine how these teachings helped construct Haudenosaunee citizenship which forms the foundation of Haudenosaunee Confederacy, how it informed diplomacy and treaty making prior to settlement and how it informed early Crown relations. Lastly, we will discuss how it inform us to live a peaceful, harmonious existence for the “Faces Yet to Come.”
Bio: Dr. Darren Thomas is Bear Clan and a member of the Seneca Nation who resides at the Grand River Territory of the Haudenosaunee. Darren is an Associate Vice-President of Indigenous Initiatives and an Associate Professor in the Indigenous Studies Program at Wilfrid Laurier University. As a senior leader of Indigenous Initiatives at Laurier, he manages a staff team that is responsible to support Indigenous students, staff, and faculty by developing and implementing an Indigenous strategic plan for Indigenization, decolonization, and reconciliation. Darren’s personal research interests are: Indigenous thought and philosophy, Indigenous community development, strengthening and improving Indigenous health and well-being, Indigenous law, and Indigenous rights and resource governance.
AGENDA
Time | Event | Location |
9-9:20 a.m. | Registration & Coffee | SJ2 Atrium |
9:30-11 a.m. 60 min talk + 30 min Q&A |
Welcome Keynote: Dr Darren Thomas: Gayenshragowa-The Everlasting Love |
SJ2 Room 1002 |
11-11:30 a.m. | Morning Break Coffee & Tea |
SJ2 Atrium |
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1. Emmi Doerr: Parenting with Disability: An Opportunity to Shift the Narrative 2. SMF 230 Stats Presentations |
SJ2 Room 1002 |
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Lunch | Served in the SJU Servery - Community Centre |
1:30-2:30 p.m. 20 min each (15 min + 5 min Q&A) |
1. Jayden Bousfield: Support Seeking for Gender Dysphoria in Intimate Relationships 2. James Kim: Investigating the Psychology of Incels and Misogynistic Ideologies of the Mansophere: A Mixed-Methods Approach 3. Abbi Longmire: Integrating Relationships in Research for Social Justice and Queer Liberation Informed by a Queer Activist Symposium |
SJ2 Room 1002 |
2:30-3p.m. | Afternoon Break Candy Bar |
SJ2 Atrium |
3-4 p.m. | Dr. Katy Fulfer's panel with PhD students Belinda Alievska, Marco Tang, and Eric Devall: Re-conceiving pregnancy: Philosophical questions around miscarriage, abortion, and ectogenesis | SJ2 Room 1002 |
4-4:30 p.m. | 1. Laura Grafton: Queering the Edge: Representation Politics in the Harley Quinn Franchise 2. Liam Garner & Andrew Deman: Re-reading Historic Queer Manga: Heteronormativity in Moto Hagio’s The Heart of Thomas |
SJ2 Room 1002 |