27 March 2025 | 10:30 - 12:00 and 16:00 - 18:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Third Floor - 384
Organisers: Tatiana Degai (University of Victoria, Canada); Vera Kuklina (George Washington University, USA); James Tempte (Alaska Pacific University, USA)
Session Description:
Knowledge mobilization practices in the Arctic are undergoing transformations guided by Indigenous communities. One of the major ways of the resulting change in research practices is blurring the line between knowledge production and knowledge dissemination, between arts and sciences. By widening the ways how the knowledge is shared by knowledge keepers and offering more spaces for Indigenous perspectives, scholars can build more meaningful collaboration with Indigenous communities, support capacity building, and strengthen community well-being. Such an approach implies that a variety of tools, methods and creative practices are used for knowledge co-creation, sharing and representation, and as a result, have more meaningful impact. Meaningful knowledge dissemination is important as it can have an impact on decision making, support language revitalization, community economic growth, and address sustainability issues as viewed by the communities.
From the Indigenous perspective knowledge dissemination implies knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer on the terms of the People whose lands this knowledge is from. This sharing circle will bring together diverse experiences from community-engaged and Indigenous-led research that center Indigenous ways of knowledge sharing and offer ideas around meaningful knowledge dissemination.