
Sessions in which Julie Lauziere participates
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10:00 AM
- Insights into the experience of Inuit residents in an addiction rehabilitation centre located in Southern Quebec: Preliminary results - Julie Lauzière
- Participant Julie Lauziere (Université de Sherbrooke) |
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Health 4
- Substance use and alcohol misuse are intertwined with the social difficulties faced in Inuit regions. Yet most of the individuals who wish, or...
- Talk
Sessions in which Julie Lauziere attends
- An Inuk point of view about the Deep impact that the Europeans have on Inuit lives - Sarah Angiyou
- Participant Sarah Angiyou |
- 30 minutes Part of: Education 5 (Partnership research and development in improvement of educational situations and teacher training in Indigenous context perspectives)
- Europeans have had and still have a deep impact on Inuit lives. Every part of their lives have been impacted by the colonisation: their language...
- Talk
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Representations of Inuit people and issues in Canadian society, media and political institutions - Mathieu Landriault, Jean-François Savard & P. Whitney Lackenbauer DoubleTree par Hilton Montréal - Symphonie 4 (on Level 5)
- 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM | 3 hours 15 minutes
- Popular symbols tied to Inuit people are abound in the Canadian imaginary, often represented in a folkloric way: igloos and inukshuk are iconic ill...
- Session
- Inuit specific strategy to end gender-based violence and promote gender equality - Maya Doyon-Hanson & Rebecca Jones DoubleTree par Hilton Montréal - Soprano C (on Level 4)
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- It has been just three generations since Inuit in Canada were moved into permanent settlements, which caused the erosion of traditional culture, kn...
- Workshop
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Pisulaurtaa! Let’s go for a walk! (Walking Tour 2hrs/4.5km) - Christopher Fletcher & Annie Pisuktie
- 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 2 hours
- Inuit have been making their place, coming and going, living and working in Montreal for generations. Since the signing of the James Bay and Northe...
- Walking Tour
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
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
- The MMIWG inquiry and its importance for Inuit across Canada - Qajaq Robinson, Violet Ford-Roy, Lisa Koperqualuk, Looee Okalik DoubleTree par Hilton Montréal - Soprano C (on Level 4)
- 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The members of this panel will discuss their respective roles in offering legal counsel, providing health and social support, and documenting the...
- Panel
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- Mobility/Migration in Nunavik: a gender perspective - Stephanie Kootoo-Chiarello and Sylvie Godin
- Participant Stephanie Kootoo-Chiarello (Statistics Canada) | Participant Sylvie Godin |
- 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Gender & Development in Inuit Nunangat - Magalie Quintal-Marineau, Anne Curley, Lema Ijtemaye & Eleanor Stephenson
- Talk
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...

9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- 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
- The Words of the Inuit: Underlying Significations under Current Meanings - Louis-Jacques Dorais
- Participant Louis-Jacques Dorais |
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 1
- In Inuktitut and other Inuit languages, when lexicological analysis combines morphosemantics (deciphering the original signification of a word thro...
- Talk
- Looking white and being Indigenous, a complicated relationship with identity - Regan Burden
- Participant Regan Burden (NunatuKavut Community Council) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Identity 1
- This presentation will discuss my own personal experiences of being an Indigenous person with a light complexion. Growing up in southern Labra...
- Talk
- Let’s grab a coffee and create solutions - Cécile de Sérigny & Marion Macé
- Participant Marion Mace (Inuvik Greenhouse) | Participant cécile de sérigny (Consultante) |
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes Part of: Ice-breaker 2
- During my experience working in Northern communities, I have often questioned the legitimacy of my research and the fashion in which it was cond...
- Talk
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Tukisiniq Inuit Nunanganginit Understand Inuit homelands - Jobie Weetaluktuk
- Participant Jobie Weetaluktuk |
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Identity 1
- Every time Inuit negotiate a land deal, they hope and dream of a true Inuit Nunangat (homeland). They believed they were getting their own ethnic h...
- Talk
- Inuit women's role and knowledge within the justice system in Nunavik: towards an Inuit and feminine perspective of justice - Pascale Laneuville & Laëtitia Marc
- Participant Pascale Laneuville | Participant Laëtitia Marc |
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Law & Justice
- The purpose of this communication is to present the results of a project undertaken by the Sentinel North Research Chair on Relations with Inuit So...
- Talk
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Inuit Places in Urban Spaces: A Musical Quest for Inuit Identity in St. John’s - Jeffrey van den Scott
- Participant Jeffrey van den Scott |
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Identity 1
- Talk
- Rethinking the value of ethnographic research through the Montreal Nipivut radio project - Mark Watson
- Participant Mark Watson |
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Anthropology 1
- Nipivut (meaning ‘Our Voice’ in Inuktitut) is a Montreal Inuit radio show and the product of a participatory action research project. As an anth...
- Talk
- Relationships between cost of hunting and fishing with sharing practices in the Arctic community of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut - Jacqueline Chapman & Stephan Schott
- Participant Jacqueline Chapman | Participant Stephan Schott |
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Food 1
- The transition to a wage-based, commodity driven economy has altered the traditional sharing of country food practiced in many Northern communities...
- Talk
- Nunavut Therapeutic Justice Program - Marie-Odile Marcotte & Leslie Emingak-Frempong
- Participant Marie-Odile Marcotte (Government of Nunavut) | Participant Leslie Frempong |
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Law & Justice
- The presenters would like to share about a pilot project undertaken by the Government of Nunavut, Department of Justice. The Therapeutic Justice Pr...
- Talk
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

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

2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Mobilizing the Inuit radio show ‘Nipivut’ (Our Voice) in Montreal and Ottawa - Mark Watson, Nally Weetaluktuk, Annie Pisuktie, Sara Breitkreutz, Donna Patrick
- Participant Mark Watson | Participant Naluturuk Weetaluktuk (Nipivut) | Participant Annie Pisuktie | Participant Sara Breitkreutz |
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Inuit 1
- This presentation provides an introduction to, and update on, the ‘Mobilizing Nipivut’ project in Montreal and Ottawa. ‘Nipivut’, meaning ‘Our V...
- Talk
- The Strategy for Socially Marginalized Greenlanders in Denmark: Project leaders and front-line workers perspectives on impacts and outcomes - Helle Møller & Siddhartha Baviskar
- Participant Helle Møller (Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research, Lakehead University) | Participant Siddhartha Baviskar (Københavns Professionshøjskole, Institut for Socialrådgiveruddannelse) |
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Inuit 1
- While most Greenlanders in Denmark are doing well, a minority group (6-10%) live under marginalizedand socially isolated circumstances most (ab...
- Talk
- Intergenerational transmission in Iqitauvik and Tumiapiit Childcare centers, Nunavik, Quebec Arctic - Ariane Benoit
- Participant Ariane Benoit |
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Education 2: Intergenerational
- Since 1981, children from Nunavik attend to preschool institutions, called childcare centers (CCC). In this environment, educators make use of comm...
- Talk
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- The Qanuikkat Siqinirmiut project: progress in the first year - Christopher Fletcher, Tina Pisuktie, Linda Shipaluk, Marie-Claude Lyonnais
- Participant Christopher Fletcher | Participant Tina Pisuktie (Southern Quebec Inuit Association) | Participant Marie-Claude Lyonnais |
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Inuit 1
- In 2017 we began a 4-5 year project with the objective of describing the health of Inuit in southern Quebec. The need for health information abo...
- Talk
- Le Plan Clinique Régional Nunavik : l’intégration de la perspective des usagers pour une sécurisation culturelle du développement des services de santé et des services sociaux au Nunavik - Fabien Pernet, Annie Baron & Amélie Breton
- Participant Fabien Pernet | Participant Annie Baron | Participant Amelie Breton |
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Health 2
- La Régie Régionale de la Santé et des Services Sociaux du Nunavik (RRSSSN) a entrepris en 2017 de documenter la perspective des usagers sur les ser...
- Talk
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Building Inuit self-determination in research through the implementation of the Inuit Health Survey - Mona Belleau, Kristeen McTavish
- Participant Mona Belleau | Participant Kristeen McTavish |
- 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Health 2
- In recent years, Inuit have become increasingly involved in health research activities taking place in Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit Homeland); ho...
- Talk
4:15 PM
4:15 PM
- Indigenous Sexuality: Annie Pootoogook’s Images of Inuit Erotica - Haidee Smith Lefebvre
- Participant Haidee Lefebvre |
- 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Art 3
- Annie Pootoogook (1969-2016) was the first Inuk artist credited for establishing Inuit art as contemporary and relevant. Throughout her career, som...
- Talk
- Ajjigiinnginnatta (Because We Are Different): Linguistic Differences Between Inuktitut and Qallunaatitut, and Why It Matters - Raigelee Alorut
- Participant Raigelee Alorut (Tungasuvvingat Inuit) |
- 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 3
- As noted by the United Nations in declaring 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages, languages play a crucial role in people's dai...
- Talk
- Understanding People, Place, and Culture: A NunatuKavut Inuit Mental Wellness Initiative - Julie Bull & Jennifer Shea
- Participant Julie Bull | Participant Jennifer Shea |
- 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Health 3 : Mental Health
- Mental wellness is a key health priority for NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC). The NCC represents over 6,000 Inuit, residing in 23 communities p...
- Talk
- Celebrating the Imniarvik Cultural Experience: An Inuvialuit Youth & Elders Camp - Natasha Lyons, Lisa Hodgetts, Jason Lau, David Stewart, Mervin Joe and Ashley Piskor
- Participant Natasha Lyons | Participant Lisa Hodgetts (The University of Western Ontario) | Participant Mervin Joe (Parks Canada; Inuvialuit Living History Project) |
- 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Youth 2
- In July 2019, Inuvialuit Youth and Elders spent five days at Imniarvik (Sheep Creek), located in Ivvavik National Park, in the heart of the Richard...
- Talk
4:45 PM
4:45 PM
- Collaboration in child mental health care in Nunavik : what about boundaries? - Andréanne Robitaille & Sarah Fraser
- Participant Andréanne Robitaille (Université de Montréal) | Participant Fraser Sarah (Université de Montréal) |
- 4:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Health 3 : Mental Health
- Ilagiinut: collaborative child mental health care is a project developed by the Regional Partnership Committee of Nunavik with a research team base...
- Talk
5:15 PM
5:15 PM
- Inuit and the Camera: From Subject to Creator - Rozanne Enerson Junker
- Participant rozanne junker |
- 5:15 PM - 5:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Art 3
- Inuit have been photographed by explorers, missionaries, academics and tourists since the late 1880's. These historical works present an invaluable...
- Talk
- Imagining continuing education, interprofessional collaboration and support in a trilingual environment - Lucie Nadeau, Sarah Fraser, Janique Jonhson-Lafleur & Jason Annahatak
- Participant Lucie Nadeau | Participant Janique Johnson-Lafleur | Participant Fraser Sarah (Université de Montréal) |
- 5:15 PM - 5:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Health 3 : Mental Health
- Background: A community of practice (CoP) in youth mental health (YMH) and wellness is being implemented in the 14 Inuit communities of Nunavik to ...
- Talk
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- White As Snow: An Ethnographic Account of White Privilege and Indigeneity - Patricia Johnson-Castle
- Participant Patricia Johnson-Castle |
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Identity 2
- This presentation will explore concepts of race and Inuit identity. More and more Inuit are beginning to present in physically diverse ways, differ...
- Talk
- Inuit Early Childhood Development in Inuit Nunangat: A Changing Landscape - Lena Egotak, Jenny Lyall, Julie-Ann Berthe, Maria Storr & Karen Beddard
- Participant Jenny Lyall (Nunatsiavut Government) | Participant Julie Ann Berthe (Kativik Regional Government) | Participant Maria Storr (Inuvialuit Regional Corporation) | Participant Karen Beddard (ITK) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Health 4
- Inuit are one of the youngest and fastest growing populations in Canada, but experience unique challenges in health equity, and in accessing early ...
- Talk
9:25 AM
9:25 AM
- Nunavik Sivunitsavut: Alumni perspectives - James Vandenberg & Nunavik Sivunitsavut alumni
- Participant James Vandenberg (NS) | Moderator James Vandenberg (NS) |
- 9:29 AM - 10:29 AM | 1 hour Part of: Education 7: Postsecondary
- Nunavik Sivunitsavut is a one-year culturally relevant CEGEP experience for Inuit from Nunavik, accredited by John Abbott College. It started in 20...
- Panel
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Building Relationships: The Cornerstone of Community-Academic Partnership Research with Inuit Communities - Léa Plourde-Léveillé, Shirley Tagalik, & Sarah Fraser
- Participant Léa Plourde-Léveillé | Participant Shirley Tagalik (Aqqiumavvik Society) | Participant Fraser Sarah (Université de Montréal) |
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Health 4
- Talk
- Iviqtippalliajut: In the Process of Falling Into Place - Shuvinai Mike
- Participant Shuvinai Mike (Government of Nunavut) |
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour Part of: Knowledge 1
- The Honourable David Joanasie, Minister of Culture and Heritage, tabled the “Iviqtippalliajut: In the Process of Falling Into Place” Framework, dur...
- Talk
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

2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Urban Inuit Realities - Stephen Puskas, Jason LeBlanc, Joshua Stribbell, Nikita Larter, Maxine Angoo, Annie Pisutkie, Tina Pisuktie, Jenna Joyce Broomfield Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-3260
- 2:30 PM - 5:45 PM | 3 hours 15 minutes
- Voices of Inuit are often lost in academic conferences, as Inuit have a long history of being the subject at such events. Further to this, urban In...
- Panel
- Un processus de réflexion autour du partage des savoirs - Léa Plourde-Léveillé & Sarah Fraser
- Participant Léa Plourde-Léveillé | Participant Fraser Sarah (Université de Montréal) |
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Knowledge 2: Research
- Les savoirs prennent racine dans une réalité contextuelle laquelle comprend une vision du passé et du futur imbriquée dans la culture. Ils ne peuve...
- Talk
- Bridging the Gap: the Work of the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre with school boards in Ottawa - Nancy Henry, Hazel Ootoowak & Pam Stellick
- Participant Nancy Henry (OCDSB - Curriculum Services) | Participant Hazel Ootoowak (Inuuqatigiit) | Participant Pam Stellick (Inuuqatigiit) |
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Education 8: Primary
- We will be delighted to present our groundbreaking work in building relationships between school boards and an Inuit community agency. Our relation...
- Talk
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Reclaiming Inuit knowledge in pursuit of self-governance: Regulating research through relationships - Amy Hudson & Julie Bull
- Participant Amy Hudson | Participant Julie Bull |
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Knowledge 2: Research
- Leading research initiatives that respond to community priorities, needs and interests in an effort to enhance ethical research that is Inuit commu...
- Talk
4:15 PM
4:15 PM
- Health 6: Grief Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-3220
- 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Isuarsivik : Architecture for Healing - Carolyne Fontaine & Alicia Aragutak
- Participant Carolyne Fontaine | Participant Alicia Aragutak (Isuarsivik Recovery Center) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Architecture
- La nouvelle approche en réadaptation affrme que pour réussir, le retour au bien-être doit faire appel aux traditions de guérison autochtones. L’arc...
- Talk
- Inuit self-determined research - Nunatsiavut Government, Makivik Corporation, Nunavut Tunngavik, Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada, Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, National Inuit Youth Council, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
- Moderator Karen Kelley | Moderator Natan Obed (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami) |
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes Part of: Research 2
- In March 2018, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) released the National Inuit Strategy on Research (NISR). The NISR envisions research that empowers us ...
- Round Table
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

1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Exploring Collaborative Visual Methods to Discuss Inuit Health - Jessica Penney (Sign-Up Required)
- Signup required Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-3560
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Culturally responsive methods and Indigenous research methods encourage respectful and reciprocal relationships and relational discourses, as well ...
- Workshop
- Nunangat Pedagogies: A strategy for encouraging understanding and dialogue between peoples, materials and environments - Carol Rowan, Maaji Puutilik & Elsie Kasudluak
- Participant Maaji Putulik (Tasiurvik Childcare Center ) | Participant Elsie Kasudluak | Participant Mary Caroline Rowan |
- 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Education 11: Cross-cultural
- Nunangat pedagogies are based on five main ideas:1. Pedagogies emerge in relation with Nunangat; 2. Inuit Elders have a vital role to play in conne...
- Talk
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Proposed Inuit Research Network and Inuit Quajimajatuqangit (IRNIQ) - Heather Campbell Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Mr. Bernard Saladin d’Anglure C.M., President of Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit Inc. stated in his letter dated August 9, 2017:
- Panel