Jessie Loyer "Research as Trauma & Medicine: How Libraries can Provide an Ethic of Care"
In this first event in the Digital + Creative Knowledge Sharing Fall Series, Jessie Loyer draws on n锚hiyaw laws of relationality to consider the way that libraries can make space for emotional competency in supporting student research.
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Zoom passcode: 929121
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Lois Klassen, Conference Coordinator | lklassen@ecuad.caOpen to Public?
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For many, libraries are warm, welcoming places, tinged with nostalgia and fond memories. Yet these library collections and spaces are also sites of trauma for researchers, particularly Indigenous students. The presentation is a chance for those who work in research, libraries, and in student support to draw from n锚hiyaw laws of relationality to consider the way that libraries can make space for emotional competency in supporting student research.
As Liaison Librarian for Anthropology and Indigenous Studies at Mount Royal University, Jessie Loyer鈥檚 research focuses on Indigenous perspectives on information literacy, supporting language revitalization, and creating ongoing research relationships using a n锚hiyaw min芒 otip锚misiw concept of kinship. Loyer鈥檚 presentation will offer perspectives on the ethics of research with and within Indigenous communities and ask questions around the ownership of Indigenous research, the politics of refusal, the First Nations Principles of OCAP庐 (ownership, control, access, and possession), the ethic of care in research, and the ways that researchers might reflect on their own positionality.