Indigenous Perspectives on Planetary Healing

The Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages & the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research

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Indigenous Perspectives on Planetary Healing

August 3, 2:30-4PM

In celebration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (Aug 9, 2022), we invite you to attend a joint event between the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. The event celebrates Indigenous knowledge and create space for sharing perspectives on striving toward human and environmental wellbeing.

The discussion will focus on healing as it relates to environmental injustice, climate change, and/or biodiversity loss that sparks creativity, reciprocity, and knowledge-sharing among Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers and practitioners (people working on the ground).

Presentations by:

Nicole Redvers

Assistant Professor, Indigenous Health, Family & Community Medicine, University of North Dakota

Lewis Williams

Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Ontario

Followed by an open discussion moderated by:

Idil Boran

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, York University

Deborah McGregor

Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, Environmental and Urban Change, York University

Victoria Watson

Law Reform Specialist, Ecojustice

Marlie Whittle

MA student, Department of Philosophy, York University

Registration: https://go.yorku.ca/planetary-healing