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Mid-winter meeting — 20–21 January 2017 provides a route through the scheduled scholarly conversations. Use the original dates, session titles and presenter names to locate a panel; do not treat a scheduled talk as a published research result.
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CANADIAN LAW AND SOCIETY MID-WINTER MEETING AND SYMPOSIUM JANUARY 20 & 21, 2017 PROGRAM TH FRIDAY JANUARY 20 (all sessions are in the Mary Louise Lynch Room) Greetings from CLSA President Lyndsay Campbell 12:30 p.m. Official Welcome to Wolastoq Territory 12:35 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. David Perley, Director, Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre, University of New Brunswick Imelda Perley, Elder-in-Residence, Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre, University of New Brunswick Mayor Mike O’Brien, City of Fredericton George MacLean, Vice-President Academic, University of New Brunswick (Fredericton) Session 1: The History of Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal Relations in the Maritimes 1:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. John Reid (History, Saint Mary’s University): Reflections on the History of Indigenous – non-Indigenous Relations in the Homelands of the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, and Passamaquoddy Introduction by David Bell (Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick) Session 2: Colonies, Empire and Dispossession 1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Elizabeth Mancke (Canada Research Chair, University of New Brunswick): Imperialist Memes: The Quotidian Embeddedness of Empire in our Scholarship and Teaching Bill Parenteau (History, University of New Brunswick): The Contours of Dispossession: Understanding State Responses to Native Rights in New Brunswick, 1784-2016” Erin Morton (History, University of New Brunswick): Why Colten Boushie Didn't Own the Farm: Treaty 6 and the Peasant Policy in Canadian Visual History Chair: Michael Boudreau (Dean of Humanities, Saint Thomas University)
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Health Break 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Session 3: A Children First Approach to the TRC Calls to Action 3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Christian Whalen (Office of the Child and Youth Advocate, New Brunswick) Candice Pollock (ACCESS Open Minds New Brunswick) Colin Hitchcock (University of New Brunswick) Gavin Kotze (Office of the Child and Youth Advocate, New Brunswick) KEYNOTE SPEAKER 4:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sāsipihkēyihtamowin: Restorying the Indigenous Feminine in an Age of Reconciliation Margaret Kress, Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre, University of New Brunswick Reception to Follow in the Student Lounge Artwork appears courtesy of Christi Belcourt
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SATURDAY JANUARY 21st Concurrent Session I: 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 1.a. Aboriginal Peoples, Criminal Justice and Healing (room 14) Christopher George (Interdisciplinary, University of New Brunswick): Rebuilding the Longhouse: A Deconstruction of Settler Colonialism through Wabanaki Holistic Growth & Resurgence Emily Snyder (University of Saskatchewan): Teaching Indigenous Feminist Legal Studies: Reflections Nathan Gorham (Canadian Trial Lawyers Association): Wrongful Remand and the Overrepresentation of Indigenous People in Canadian Jails Anna Faminio (University of Toronto): Urban Indigenous Visiting Places: Resolving Disputes and Reinvigorating Indigenous Laws Chair: Josephine Savarese (Criminology and Criminal Justice, Saint Thomas University) 1.b. Federalism, the Duty to Consult and Public Policy (room 15) Mark Mancini (Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick): The Old Fashioned Way: The Classical Paradigm and Reconciliation Jean Louis Deveau (Saint Thomas University): An Institutional Ethnography of the Consultation Process between Indigenous Peoples and the New Brunswick Government on the Management of Wabanaki/Crown Forests David DesBaillets (Université de Québec à Montréal): The Right to Social Housing in First Nations’ Communities Chair: John McEvoy (Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick) Concurrent Session 2: 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. 2.a. Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network (UAKN) (room 14) Neil Forbes: Urban Aboriginal Identity
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Jula Hughes and Wendy Wetteland: Representing Treaty Beneficiaries Off-Reserve Patsy McKinney and Lisa Jodoin: Navigating Government Services Chair: Verlé Harrop, Director, UAKN 2.b. “Why the Oland Case Matters” (Mary Louise Lynch Room) Greg Marquis (University of New Brunswick): Author of Truth and Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis Oland Introduction by Patrick McGuinty (Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick) Lunch: 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Concurrent Session 3: 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m (room 14) 2.a. R. v. Carter (2015): A Panel Discussion Charles Feldman (Legislative Counsel, House of Commons) Constance McIntosh (Dalhousie University) Thomas McMorrow (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) Chair: Hilary Young (Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick) 2.b. Law, Technology and Disability (room 15) Neil Harrel (Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa): Emerging Eugenics? The Legal Change in the Regulation of Reproductive Genetic Technologies Matthew McManus (Socio-Legal Studies, York University): Law, Technology, and Difference Ravi Malhotra (Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa): The Legal Politics of Oliver C. Cox (1901-1974) Chair: Karen Pearlston (Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick) Health Break 2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. CLSA Board Meeting: 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (McAllister room) CJLS Board Meeting: 4:00 p.m. (room 222)