Let’s Become Story Ready: SSHRC Connection Grant for Decolonizing and Indigenizing European and Migration Studies through Indigenous Storywork



Image credit: “sʔi:ɬqəy̓ qeqən (Double-Headed Serpent Post)” Brent Sparrow Jr., Musqueam (UBC Flickr)

Markus Hallensleben and Elizabeth Nijdam (co-investigator) have received a SSHRC Connection Grant for a Workshop on Decolonizing and Indigenizing European and Migration Studies through Indigenous Storywork Methodologies. Collaborators are Maria Jose Athie Martinez (EDCP), Dorothee Leesing (CENES) and David Gaertner (FNIS), co-sponsored by CES, CMS, CENES, Humboldt University, Berlin (Regina Römhild), and the University of Potsdam (Anja Schwarz and Nicole Waller). It is also part of the Research Group on Narratives https://narratives.migration.ubc.ca and will centre Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem’s educational storywork methodologies.

This workshop will take place from August 29 to September 1, 2022, at the Liu Institute of Global Studies and the Centre for Migration Studies. Participation will be by invitation only. More details to come!

We gratefully acknowledge financial support of this project from the Waterloo Centre for German Studies.