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February 27, 2026

Methods and Mediums: Indigenous Feminism and Critical Approaches to Relationality

Event Date: February 27, 2026
Event Location: 307 Tier Building
Event Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Join us for a talk by Dr. Gina Starblanket on Indigenous feminism and critical approaches to relationality. The talk will held on Friday, February 27th, 2026 from 12:00 pm – 1:30pm in 307 Tier Building, Fort Garry Campus – University of Manitoba.

This talk explores Indigenous feminist and other critical approaches to relationality in academic research and writing. It provides examples of applied practices and reviews the implications of Indigenous feminist approaches across diverse sites and scales.

All are welcome to attend. No registration required. For information on getting to the University of Manitoba, visit https://umanitoba.ca/about-um/our-campuses/getting-here. For more information, please email chrr@umanitoba.ca.

This workshop is a part of CHRR’s Methods and Mediums workshop series which explores different research methodologies and ways to publish research within human rights and social justice.

Funding for this event is made possible, in part, by the Canada Research Chair in Miyo We’citowin and Digital Sovereignties and the Faculty of Law Endowment Fund.

About the Presenter

Gina Starblanket is an Associate Professor in the School of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria. She is Cree/Saulteaux and a member of Star Blanket Cree Nation in Treaty 4 territory. Her work is rooted in prairie Indigenous political life and examines Indigenous–settler relations through the lens of treaty, Indigenous governance, and relationality. Dr. Starblanket’s scholarship brings together Indigenous political thought, the on-the-ground politics of treaty implementation, and Indigenous feminist analysis. She is co-editor of NAIS, the journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and her publications include Making Space for Indigenous Feminisms, 3rd ed. (Fernwood Press, 2024), Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial (ARP Press, 2020), and Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada, 5th and 6th eds. (OUP, 2019 & 2025).

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