
Sessions in which Kelly Bushnell participates
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Tukisiqattautiniq Through Making Literature Together - Johnny Issaluk & Kelly Bushnell
- Participant Kelly Bushnell (Rachel Carson Center) | Moderator Johnny Issaluk (Rachel Carson Center) | Moderator Kelly Bushnell (Rachel Carson Center) | Participant Johnny Issaluk (Rachel Carson Center) |
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes Part of: Literature 4
- We propose a bilingual interactive workshop titled “Tukisiqattautiniq Through Making Literature Together,” which explores the ways in which coll...
- Workshop
Sessions in which Kelly Bushnell attends
- A welcoming lamp lighting ceremony, by Aaju Peter
- Participant Aaju Peter |
- 5 minutes Part of: Literature 1: Inuit Literatures - organized by Daniel Chartier & Keavy Martin
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Continental Breakfast & Registration (in the Chaufferie, CO-R700) Cœur des sciences Pavilion (CO) - Chaufferie (CO-R700)
- 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | 1 hour
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
- Additional Coffee & Pastries in Soprano Foyer, Level 4, DoubleTree par Hilton
- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 30 minutes
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Book Fair (Thursday) Cœur des sciences Pavilion (CO) - Chaufferie (CO-R700)
- 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM | 6 hours
- Public Event
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Coffee Break @ two locations: Chaufferie (CO-R700) at UQAM and Soprano Foyer, Level 4, DoubleTree par Hilton
- 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | 15 minutes
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- EXHIBITION - Imagining: 50 projects for the North Cœur des sciences Pavilion (CO) - Agora Hydro-Québec (CO-R500)
- 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- How to build a quality education-to-opportunity pipeline for youth in Nunavik - Vanessa Chaperlin and Minnie Annahatak Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This panel will discuss how to build a quality education-to-opportunity pipeline for youth in Nunavik. One approach is developing support systems f...
- Panel
- Inuit in POLAR Science - Crystal Qaumariaq, Bryan Vandenbrink, Angulalik Pedersen & Mary Simon Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR) operates out of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) Campus in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The CHARS C...
- Panel
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Break -- Make your way over to Concordia for the Opening Ceremony, Keynote, and Performance
- 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | 45 minutes
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Opening Ceremony Pavillion Henry F. Hall Building, Concordia University - DB Clarke Theatre
- 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 30 minutes
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Keynote 1: Lisa Koperqualuk Pavillion Henry F. Hall Building, Concordia University - DB Clarke Theatre
- 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour
- Lisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk was born in Puvirnituq. Raised by her grandparents Lydia and Aisa Koperqualuk, her elementary schooling was done in Nun...
- Keynote

5:30 PM
5:30 PM
- Performance by Nunavik Sivunitsavut Students Pavillion Henry F. Hall Building, Concordia University - DB Clarke Theatre
- 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | 30 minutes

6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- iNuit Blanche
- 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 4 hours
- Following on the success of the world's first all-night festival of Inuit art, music, dance, performance, installation, food and film held durin...

8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Continental Breakfast & Registration (in Multi-purpose room, SH-4800) Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | 1 hour
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Art 1: Identity Président-Kennedy Pavilion (PK) - PK-1140
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
- Book Fair (Friday) Cœur des sciences Pavilion (CO) - Chaufferie (CO-R700)
- 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 8 hours
- Public Event
- Inuit Art/Crafts Sale (Friday) Cœur des sciences Pavilion (CO) - Chaufferie (CO-R700)
- 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 8 hours
- Public Event

- Voices of the Elders: Indigenous Knowledge in Literary and Visual Culture - Renée Hulan
- Participant Renee Hulan |
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Literature 1: Inuit Literatures - organized by Daniel Chartier & Keavy Martin
- Featured as one of the “leading collaborative practices” by Canadian Art, Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro’s 2010 filmQapirangajuq: In...
- Talk
- Literature 1: Inuit Literatures - organized by Daniel Chartier & Keavy Martin Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-2620
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session aims to bring together Inuit writers from across the circumpolar space, graduate students and researchers to share literary, methodolo...
- Session
- How the Arctic Became White: Qallunaat Misrepresentation of the Arctic Landscape - Chris Gismondi
- Participant Chris Gismondi |
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Art 1: Identity
- My SSHRC funded Masters thesis in Art History under Dr. Heather Igloliorte analyzes the historic visual culture of Arctic exploration. I was curiou...
- Talk
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Sila, a Greenlandic Tale about Climate Change by Lana Hansen Greenlandic Ecological Perspectives from Sila, Sedna, and Nuna Traditional Inuit Concepts - Daniel Chartier
- Participant Daniel Chartier (Université du Quebec à Montreal) |
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Literature 1: Inuit Literatures - organized by Daniel Chartier & Keavy Martin
- Sila, Sedna and Nuna demonstrate by their complexity the richness and unity of the Inuit cultures around the pole. These related concepts, which...
- Talk
- How Disciplines Speak: Communication Strategies Developed from Inuktitut Language Courses - Ellen A. Ahlness & Elizabeth Wessells
- Participant Ellen Ahlness | Participant Elizabeth Wessells (University of Washington, Seattle) |
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Education 1: Language
- Fields such as International Relations and Archeology, while undergoing decolonization practices in the bodies of knowledge they draw from, still o...
- Talk
- Inclusive Curating - Ryan Rice
- Participant Ryan Rice (OCAD University) |
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Art 1: Identity
- Inuit art plays a significant and distinct role within the field of art histories (Canadian / Circumpolar / Indigenous) and has stalwartly cat...
- Talk
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Aqqaluk Lynge’s poetic work - Marianne Stenbaek
- Participant Marianne Stenbaek |
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Literature 1: Inuit Literatures - organized by Daniel Chartier & Keavy Martin
- Greenland is ground zero for climate change but it has also been a center for change in an indigenous society … from a hunting culture to a soph...
- Talk
- Storying identity and Survivance through depictions of Sedna - Kathryn Florence
- Participant Kathryn Florence |
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Art 1: Identity
- Inuit art has been incorporated into the national image of Canada. Vibrant owls. Dancing bears. Swaying shamans. This paper looks at Nuliajuk, epit...
- Talk
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Coffee Break Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | 15 minutes
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
- Keynote 2: Dalee Sambo Dorough Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)
- 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM | 1 hour
- Currently the Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Dr. Dalee Sambo Dorough was an As- sociate Professor in the Department of Political Scienc...
- Keynote

11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Lunch (provided) Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Keynote 3: Aaju Peter Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)
- 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM | 1 hour
- Aaju Peter is a lawyer, businesswoman, and activist. Member of the Order of Canada, recipient of the Queen Elizabeth IIʼs Diamond Jubilee Medal,...
- Keynote

2:15 PM
2:15 PM
- Coffee Break Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | 15 minutes
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Untangling the Lines: Inuit Literature and Translation Studies - Valerie Henitiuk
- Participant Valerie Henitiuk (Concordia University of Edmonton) |
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Literature 2: Inuit Literatures - organized by Daniel Chartier & Keavy Martin
- […T]he government employees of Aboriginal Affairs started to ask: can you arrange them in English? I said yes. I wanted to tell [the stories] al...
- Talk
- Literature 2: Inuit Literatures - organized by Daniel Chartier & Keavy Martin Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-2620
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Inuit Authors and "Literature Development" in the Late 20th Century - Mini Aodla Freeman, Aliqa Illauq, Tiffany Larter, Keavy Martin, Pitseolak Pfeiffer, Julie Rak
- Participant Mini Aodla Freeman | Participant Aliqa Illauq (Carleton University) | Participant Tiffany Larter (Carleton University) | Participant Keavy Martin | Participant Pitseolak Pfeifer | Participant Julie Rak (University of Alberta) |
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour Part of: Literature 2: Inuit Literatures - organized by Daniel Chartier & Keavy Martin
- Inuit literatures formed an important component of the federal government policy that shaped Inuit lives in the latter half of the 20th century, bu...
- Talk
4:15 PM
4:15 PM
- Literature 3: Inuit Literatures - organized by Daniel Chartier & Keavy Martin Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-2620
- 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session aims to bring together Inuit writers from across the circumpolar space, graduate students and researchers to share literary, methodolo...
- Session
- 50 years of Nunavik writings : literature, community and history - Nelly Duvicq
- Participant Nelly Duvicq |
- 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Literature 3: Inuit Literatures - organized by Daniel Chartier & Keavy Martin
- The literary field is a structured, relatively autonomous space in which forces form a network. Written literature in Nunavik poses a challenge ...
- Talk
4:45 PM
4:45 PM
- BOOK LAUNCH - Nunavik Inuit Literary History by Nelly Duvicq Cœur des sciences Pavilion (CO) - Chaufferie (CO-R700)
- 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Continental Breakfast Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | 1 hour
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Climate 1 Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-3580
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
- Inuit Cultural Heritage: Forging a Path from Museum to Community - Dawn Biddison, Bernadette Miqqusaaq Dean, Bernadette Driscoll Engelstad, Beth Greenhorn, Sonya Kelliher Combs, Joanne Schmidt
- Moderator Bernadette Engelstad (Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution) | Participant Beth Greenhorn (Library and Archives Canada) | Participant joanne schmidt | Participant Sonya Kelliher Combs | Participant Bernadette Dean | Participant Dawn Biddison (Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution, Anchorage) |
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes Part of: Archives 1
- The richly creative, physical manifestation of Inuit cultural heritage, preserved yet often hidden away in museum and archival storerooms across No...
- Panel
- Re-describing Umiat in Museum Collections - Elizabeth Wessells
- Participant Elizabeth Wessells (University of Washington, Seattle) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Design 1
- This project looks at model umiat in the collections of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington (UW). Model...
- Talk
- Book Fair (Saturday) Cœur des sciences Pavilion (CO) - Chaufferie (CO-R700)
- 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 8 hours
- Public Event
- Inuit Art/Crafts Sale (Saturday) Cœur des sciences Pavilion (CO) - Chaufferie (CO-R700)
- 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 8 hours
- Public Event

10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Coffee Break Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | 15 minutes
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
- Keynote 4: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)
- 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM | 1 hour
- Alethea Arnaquq-Baril is an award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter of such films as Angry Inuk (2016), Throat Song (2011), Tunniit: ...
- Keynote

1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Keynote 5: Ruth Kaviok Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)
- 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM | 1 hour
- Ruth Kaviok is the outgoing President of the National Inuit Youth Council (2017-19). She was the Inuktitut valedictorian of John Arnalukjuak Hig...
- Keynote

2:15 PM
2:15 PM
- Coffee Break Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | 15 minutes
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Film 1 Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-3560
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
- Library and Archives Canada’s Northern Content Film Collection: Understanding Faces, Places and Spaces through Moving Images - Caroline Forcier Holloway
- Participant Caroline Forcier Holloway (Library and Archives Canada) |
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Film 1
- Over ten years ago, Caroline Forcier Holloway, Senior Audiovisual Archivist, embarked on a part-time project to survey Library and Archives Canada’...
- Talk
- Literature 4 Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-3540
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
- Tukisiqattautiniq Through Making Literature Together - Johnny Issaluk & Kelly Bushnell
- Participant Kelly Bushnell (Rachel Carson Center) | Moderator Johnny Issaluk (Rachel Carson Center) | Moderator Kelly Bushnell (Rachel Carson Center) | Participant Johnny Issaluk (Rachel Carson Center) |
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes Part of: Literature 4
- We propose a bilingual interactive workshop titled “Tukisiqattautiniq Through Making Literature Together,” which explores the ways in which coll...
- Workshop
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Writing Inuit Cinema - Stephen Agluvak Puskas
- Participant Stephen Puskas (Makivik Corporation) |
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Film 1
- Today, there is little doubt about the status of Inuit Cinema as a cultural force in Canada’s media landscape. If the 2001 release of Anatarjuat re...
- Talk
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- In the wake of modern life, women are becoming leaders - Inga Hansen
- 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Film 1
- The main message in my television documentary is to show the men who make living from the sea and the land how they working, and how they using man...
- Talk
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Break
- 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM | 15 minutes
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Continental Breakfast Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | 1 hour
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Book Fair (Sunday) Cœur des sciences Pavilion (CO) - Chaufferie (CO-R700)
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 3 hours
- Public Event
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Problematic Postage: Canada’s Claim to the North through a Stamp - Daniel Dumas
- Participant Daniel Dumas |
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Geography 2
- Visual mediums are powerful means of communication that convey messages, evoke emotions, and portray abstract concepts such as identity, culture, a...
- Talk
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Coffee Break Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | 15 minutes
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
- Keynote 6: Natan Obed Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)
- 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM | 1 hour
- Natan Obed is the President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. He is originally from Nain, the north- ernmost community in Labradorʼs Nunatsiavut regio...
- Keynote

11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- An exploration of the decolonization of education - Jennifer Williams Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-3620
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session is a co-hosted roundtable exploring the practice of decolonizing education. Students on Ice has been running youth expeditions to the ...
- Round Table
- Lunch (provided) Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Youth 4 : Recreating a place of honour and respect for young people - Jrène Rahm, Tim Anaviapik-Soucie, Kativik Ilisarniliriniq, Jackie Kidd, Vincent L'Hérault, Jonathan Pitseolak, Shirley Tagalik, Charlie Nowkawalk & Loïc Fauteux-Goulet Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-3580
- 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM | 2 hours
- This panel brings together Inuit leaders and allies from different environmental stewardship projects and curriculum initiatives in Inuit Nunangat ...
- Panel