Rethinking the relationship between spirituality and reconciliation: A symposium on Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations in Canada

Rethinking the relationship between spirituality and reconciliation: A symposium on Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations in Canada, takes place on 8-9 March 2018 at First Peoples House, University of Victoria. Visit www.reconciliation-and-spirituality.ca for more information or register here.

The work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the survivors of residential schools who testified before it, have helped to expand a national public conversation about reconciliation. This symposium asks whether and how this work of decolonization and reconciliation may be understood as also being a spiritual challenge, and what that might mean for individual and social action.

Speakers:

Prof. John Borrows (University of Victoria)

Prof. Val Napoleon (University of Victoria)

Dr. Roshan Danesh (University of Victoria

Prof. Andrée Boisselle (York University)

Prof. Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (University of Victoria)

Prof. Tolly Bradford (Concordia University)

Dr. Chelsea Horton (University of Victoria)

Prof. Gordon Christie (University of British Columbia)

Prof. Hadley Friedland (University of Alberta)

Prof. Sarah Hunt (University of British Columbia)

Douglas White (Vancouver Island University)

Prof. Sarah Morales (University of Ottawa)

Robert Clifford (York University)

Sponsored by: University of Victoria Law, University of Victoria Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, Baha’i Community of Canada, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.