Keynote Presentations

 

Center for Performance Studies 1st Graduate Student Conference

February 19, 2021

GLAM Collective (Heather Igloliorte, Julie Nagam, and Carla Taunton)

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA - Online.

Thinking Beyond Geographic and Institutional Boundaries: Circumpolar Art Futures

March 1-5, 2021
8th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Online.

Inuit Art Futures: New Directions in Inuit Curatorial and Artistic Practices

October 5, 2019
Inuit Art Society Annual Conference
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI.

Inuit Art in International Perspective

November 7, 2018
Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums Sprachman Lecture Series, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC.

 

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in the Art Museum: Centering Inuit Knowledge and Community in Exhibition Practices

January 17, 2018
McCready Lecture on Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON.

Sharing Knowledge and Engaging Publics: Reflections of Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Institutions

September 25-26, 2017
Keynote Panel, Imagining Canada’s Future Forum, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON.

Inuit Futures in the Arts Industry

October 17-19, 2016
All Arts Summit, Government of Nunavut, Iqaluit, NU.

Radical Collaboration: SakKijâjuk and Indigenous Curatorial Practice

December 11-12, 2015
Pratiques de la transgression / Practices of Transgression Colloque international organise, par la Section de Littérature comparée, Département de littératures et langues du monde, Université de Montréal International Conference organized by the Comparative Literature Section of the Department of World Literatures and Languages, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC.

 

Keynote and Moderator

September 15, 2015
Southern Scene / Inuit Disenchantment, Indigenous Visual Culture Program, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.

 

 Selected Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations

Arctic Arts Summit Exhibit in Rovaniemi, Finland

Decolonizing Research Practices in the Arts: Indigenous Methodologies for Engaging Circumpolar Arts Institutions

June 5, 2019

Chair, Arctic Arts Summit: The Arctic as a Laboratory for sustainable art and cultural policy.
Rovaniemi, Finland.

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  • The Role of Biennials and Triennials in the Process of Decolonizing Museums and Arts Institutions

    March 8, 2019

    Panelist
    Honolulu Biennial Hub and the Honolulu Museum of Art
    Honolulu, HA

  • International Curator Talk

    November 21, 2018

    Co-Presenter with Julie Nagam
    TARNANTHI Contemporary Art Festival
    Art Gallery of Southern Australia
    Adelaide, AUS

  • Inuit Curatorial Practices and Approaches

    October 12, 2018

    Chair and Panelist
    Pjilita’q Mi’kmaki: L’nuite’tmukl tan wejkuwaql naqwe’kl International Gathering
    Aboriginal Curatorial Collective
    Halifax, NS

  • Curating with Community

    September 15, 2018

    Panelist
    aabaakwad (it clears after a storm)
    Art Gallery of Ontario
    Toronto

  • Indigenous collaborations through the gallery as a site for self-determination and social change

    March 8, 2018

    Co-Presenter with Julie Nagam, Jaimie Isaac, and Jarita Greyeyes
    Indigenous Peoples, Canada, and the United States: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and Reconciliation Third Annual Canada Colloquium
    Fulbright Foundation
    University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

  • Indigenous Art: New Media and the Digital

    October 27, 2017

    Panelist
    Native American Art Studies Association
    Tulsa, OK

 
 

Contemporary Indigenous Art

June 22, 2017

Presenter, Arctic Arts Summit
Hardstad, Norway

 
 

  • Curatorial Forum on Inuit Art

    October 9, 2016

    Panelist
    Inuit PiusituKangit 20th Annual Inuit Studies Conference
    St. John’s, NL

  • The Kanata Indigenous Performance, New and Digital Media Art Project and the Transactive Memory Keepers Database

    June 2, 2015

    Panelist
    Joint CSDH/SCHN Digital Humanities Conference 2015
    Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015
    University of Ottawa
    Ottawa, Ontario

  • Continuities Between Eras: Indigenous Art Histories double session

    November 6, 2015
    Co-Chair, with Carla Taunton

    Universities Art Association of Canada
    NSCAD University
    Halifax, Nova Scotia

  • Indigenous Art in Public Spaces double session

    October 2, 2015
    Co-Chair, with Carla Taunton

    20th Native American Art Studies Association (NAASA) Conference
    Buffalo Thunder
    Santa Fe, New Mexico

  • Nunatsiavut visual arts and culture: affirmation of the Inuit cultural sovereignty over centuries

    October 30, 2014
    Presenter

    Inside Illusuak: Expressive Culture of the Labradorimiut / À l'intérieur d'Illusuak: expression de la culture des Labradorimiut
    19th Annual Inuit Studies Conference: Qaumaniq – enlightening knowledge
    Laval University
    Quebec City, Quebec

  • Decolonize Me: Experiments in Indigenous Curatorial Practice

    September 19, 2014
    Presenter

    Experiments in Decolonizing Institutional Space
    Decolonizing Future Intellectual Legacies and Activist Practices: Critical Ethnic Studies Conference
    The Institute For Research on Race and Public Policy
    University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Fostering Resilience / Gathering Strength: Continuities in Labrador Inuit Women’s Arts & Resistance and Resilience Part 2: Global Indigenous Women’s Art Histories

    May 25, 2014
    Presenter and Chair

    Histories on the Edge/Histoires sur la breche
    16th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
    University of Toronto
    Toronto, Canada

  • SakKijâjuk / To be Visible: Community Knowledge and Nunatsiavummiut Visual Culture

    October 18, 2013
    Presenter

    Questioning Authority: Bringing Community Knowledge to the Museum
    Native American Art Studies Association (NAASA) Conference
    Denver, Colorado

Invited Lectures, Curatorial Talks, and Public Scholarship (selected)

 

Frozen in Time | A Dialogue with Artists Leslie Reid and Robert Kautuk

February 2022
Moderator
ᓯᑯ ᕿᕐᓂᖅᓯᓯᒪᔪᖅ | Dark Ice, Ottawa Art Gallery
Ottawa, ON, Online

INUA: New Ways Forward in Inuit Exhibition Practices

March 23, 2022
Guest Lecturer
Shirley Thomson Memorial Lecture, Carleton University
Ottawa, ON

The GIDEST Seminar

2021 postponed to 2022
Guest Lecturer
Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography and Social Thought, the New School
New York, NY

 

Visiting INUA: Curating the Inaugural Exhibition of the New Inuit Art Centre

October 13, 2021
Curatorial Talk
Qaumajuq, Bard Graduate Centre
New York, NY, Online

 

Inuit Identities and Visualizations

June 10, 2021
Moderator
Conversations series
Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska and Inuit Art Foundation, Online

 

Indigenous Curatorial Methodologies

May 31, 2021
Panelist
Summer Indigenous Art Intensive
University of British Columbia
Okanagan, BC, Online.

Decolonizing / Indigenizing Practices

April 12, 2021
Panelist
Repositioning Native American Art in the 21st-Century Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY, Online

 

Intersections of Critical Race, Place and Culture Within our Current Climate

January 27, 2021
Panelist
Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speaker Series
University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, MB, Online

 

NORTHERN LIGHTS: Art Talk with Dr. Heather Igloliorte

November 6, 2020
First Fridays in the Exchange
Winnipeg, MB, Online

South of Inuit Nunangat: An Online Conversation

October 20, 2020
Moderator
Galllery1C03 and the University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, MB, Online

 

New Directions in Writing Indigenous Art Histories: Theories and Methodologies for Canada and the US

October 23, 2020
Guest Lecturer with Carla Taunton
Art History Speaker Series
Department of Art History
University of Toronto
Toronto ON, Online

Caring Matters | Environmental Justice: Internationally Traveling Exhibitions: Creative Experiments in Curating with a Decreased Carbon Footprint

September 21, 2020
Panelist
Taking Care - Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care
The Research Center for Material Culture
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Online

How will arts & culture survive physical distancing?

June 7, 2020
Panelist
The Canadian Urban Institute
Toronto, ON, Online

 
 

Kinngait Studios: Printmaking in the Arctic Circle

November 16, 2018
Guest Lecturer
Highpoint Centre for Printmaking
Minneapolis, MN

 

Sakkijajuk/To be Visible: Engaging Nunatsiavut Communities in the Future of Inuit Art

February 7, 2018
Guest Lecturer
The Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speaker Series
University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, MB

 

Arctic Futurisms

December 1, 2017
Panelist
Radically Shifting Our Indigenous Futures Through Art, Scholarship and Technology
3rd Annual Symposium on the Future Imaginary, Initiative for Indigenous Futures
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, MB

 

Sparking Miyeu Pimatishiwim: Métis Methodologies for Indigenous Littoral Curation and Critical Discourse

November 29, 2017
Panelist
University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, MB

Ceramics and Other Outliers in Inuit Art

November 23, 2017
Guest Lecturer
University of Toronto Doris McCarthy Gallery
Toronto, ON

Instructors and Innovators: Unconventional Inuit Art in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries

November 16, 2017
Guest Lecturer
McGill Speaker Series
Department of Art History and Communication Studies
McGill University
Montreal, QC

 

Hidden Art History: Bringing to Light the Inuit Art Movement That Almost Wasn't

September 20, 2017
Guest Lecturer
7th Annual Indigenous Awareness Week
McGill University
Montreal, QC

Decolonization, Art, and the Everyday Intimacy of Indigenous Identity Politics

September 21, 2016
Guest Lecturer
Humanities & Public Life conference: Thinking about identity
Dawson College

 

Inuit Resurgence: Arctic Art Futures

August 5, 2016
Guest Lecturer
Initiative for Indigenous Futures Second Annual Symposium on the Future Imaginary
Kelowna, BC

 

Panel 1: Multiple Modernisms in comparative perspective

June 17, 2016
Panelist
Gendered Making / Unmanned Modernisms: Gender and genre in indigenous and colonial modernisms
Multiple Modernisms: Twentieth-Century Artistic Modernisms in Global Perspective Series
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa

 

Exhibiting Controversy / Promoting Debate

May 10, 2016
Panelist
2016 Annual Conference & Meeting
Association of Art Museum Curators
Houston, Texas

Cultural Representation in the Media Arts

March 17, 2016
Roundtable Discussion
Ethics and Freedom of Expression
FoFA Gallery
Concordia University

  • Rewriting Inuit Art History - Towards an Inclusive Future

    February 23, 2016
    Guest Lecturer

    Emily Carr University of Art + Design
    Vancouver, BC

  • In Conversation with Tanya Tagaq and Jesse Zubot

    February 21, 2016
    Moderator

    The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and McGill University
    Montreal, Quebec

  • Inside the Museum and Other Colonial Spaces: Imagining Decolonization through Indigenous Art and Curatorial Practice

    February 6, 2015
    Panelist, Professional Panel (with Dr. Jennifer Carter and Dr. Barbara Clausen)

    Art and the Exhibition Space
    Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History 4th Annual Conference
    Concordia University
    Montreal, Quebec

  • Sharing and Returning: Two Projects on Community Knowledge and Labrador Inuit Art History

    December 16, 2014

    Aukland Museum
    Aukland, New Zealand

  • Genuine’ Inuit Artists: The Prevailing Discourse of Mid-Century Modernist Primitivism in the Arctic and the Curious Case of Contemporary Labrador Inuit Art

    December 12, 2014
    Panelist

    Indigenous Modernisms: Histories of the Contemporary
    Multiple Modernisms: Twentieth-Century Artistic Modernisms in Global Perspective Series
    Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
    Wellington, New Zealand

  • Settler Colonialism Workshop

    October 3 – 4, 2014
    Presenter

    Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
    Concordia University
    Montreal, Quebec

  • Cigar Store Indians, Collectible Figurines, Sports Mascots and Sexy Avatars: Representations of Native North Americans in Canada and the USA

    July 2, 2014
    Co-presenter (with Dr. Erica Lehrer and Dr. Monica Patterson)

    Little Black Sambos, Cigar Store Indians… and Lucky Jews with Coins? Minorities, Kitsch, and Stereotypes on Both Sides of the Atlantic, Jewish Cultural Festival
    Krakow, Poland

  • The Initiative for Indigenous Futures

    May 19, 2014
    Panelist

    Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
    Honolulu, Hawaii

  • Continuity and Transformation in Eastern Arctic Art

    November 5, 2013
    Presenter

    Hood Museum of Art
    Dartmouth College
    Hanover, New Hampshire

  • Long Overdue: Introducing Nunatsiavummiut Art to the World

    August 16, 2013
    Presenter

    Petapan: First Light Symposium on Indigenous art
    Atlantic Public Arts Funders
    Millbrook, Nova Scotia

  • Writing Inuit Art History

    March 28, 2013
    Presenter in conversation with Dr. Anna Hudson

    Afternoons at the Institute
    The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art

  • Decolonize Me: Indigenous Art, Identity and Activism

    February 25, 2013
    Curatorial Talk

    Public lecture
    Foreman Art Gallery
    Bishops University

  • Exhibition as Activism: Decolonize Me Curatorial Discussion,

    January 31, 2013
    Curatorial Talk

    Thunder Bay Art Gallery
    Thunder Bay, Ontario