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Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Data & Ecology after the End of the World
Dismantling the primacy of traditional human-based forms of witnessing is crucial if we are to reckon with an era of technoscientific war, ecological catastrophe, and technological capture. Media and mediation are central to these intersecting crises—and to the human capacity to build new ways of knowing and being after the end of the world. In this talk, Michael Richardson shows how ecological, machinic, and algorithmic forms of witnessing can help us better understand and respond.

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What Can We Learn From How Canada’s FIAP is Landing in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Much has been written about Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP), its discursive limits, its uncertain results and how it is being implemented in parts of Africa and the Middle East. This panel will share the results of the first studies of how FIAP is landing in three Latin American and Caribbean contexts – Colombia, Haiti and Jamaica/CARICOM. It will analyse the (f)actors, on the Canadian and partner sides of cooperation relationships, that explain FIAP’s varied results on the ground. It will also start a conversation about the future of FIAP, given the results of the upcoming federal election.

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Blog - Growing Knowledge, Growing Nations: Indigenous Autonomy in the Academy
In early April, 2025 I had the honour of speaking at the GCTF Workshop on Indigenous Prosperity across the Indo-Pacific, hosted by the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa. Representing the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, I shared a message that has guided our work for nearly 40 years: Indigenous knowledge not only belongs in the academy, but can thrive there, especially when institutional autonomy and community partnership are kept front and centre.

Read the blog by Chris Andersen here