UArctic Chairs and Indigenous Fellow Labrador Workshop on Culture and Post-secondary Education
From March 8th to March 11th, 2026, the School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies at the Labrador Campus in Goose Bay will host a Workshop on Culture and Post-secondary Education, part of a collaboration between the UArctic Chair in Indigenous and Northern Education (Sylvia Moore), the UArctic Chair on Images, Perceptions and Mediations of the Arctic (Daniel Chartier), the UArctic Chair in Arctic Humanities (Jan Borm) and the UArctic Indigenous Fellow (Heather Angnatok).
Participants will include students from the School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies at the Labrador Campus and from the International Laboratory for Research on Images of the North, Winter and the Arctic at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
The event will take place during the Labrador Winter Games in Goose Bay.
UArctic Chairs and Indigenous Fellow Jan Borm, Heather Angnatok, Sylvia Moore and Daniel Chartier at the Labrador Campus in March 2026.
UQAM and Labrador Campus students with UArctic Chairs and Indigenous Fellow in Goose Bay in March 2026.
Dogsledding in Goose Bay in March 2026.
Preliminary Program
Sunday, March 8th 2026, 2-3:30 PM
Shadowbox presentations with the Labrador Campus students (Sylvia Moore)
Monday, March 9th 2026, from 11:00 AM
Visit of Them Days archives (Aimee Chaulk)
Tuesday, March 10th 2026, from 10:00 AM
Visit of the Labrador Campus
Tuesday, March 10h 2026, from 1:00 PM
Roundtable workshop on current education and cultural projects on the Arctic (Damian Oscar Castro)
Program of the roundtable
Darko Baafi - Economic Empowerment through Education, Training and
Technology transfer: Ingenuity impact of Goodfellow-Baikie's work on
First Nations in the Northwest River, Labrador, Canada
Sarah Papple - Knitting Circles as Care Circles: Gendered labour,
relational practice, and the sustenance of land, kin, and self in
Labrador
Chelsea White - Pitsik: The role of dried fish as a method of
sustaining cultural identity in the Canadian Arctic and Subarctic
Amalia McNeil - Stitching sustainability
Mehrdad Safaei - Designing a Community-Engaged AI Development Cycle
for Revitalizing Labrador’s Indigenous Languages
Hannah Buckle - From Insight to Support: Inuit Perspectives on Breastfeeding
Natalie Haire - Addressing Barriers to Equitable Intergovernmental
Relationships in Nunatsiavut
Yvonne Rumbolt-Jones - Future Role of Canadian Rangers in Northern and
Arctic Defense
Sara Leah Darrigan - The Learning Circle: Re-Membering Land as Mother,
Teacher, and Healer through Community-Led Land-Based Education
Nora Lahkani - Provincializing Northern Research: Identifying
Axiologies Held by Academic Researchers in Arctic and Subarctic
Environments
William McGrath - Exploring Forgotten Extents - Non-Intrusive
Archaeology within Sheshatshiu Cemeteries
Heather Angnatok - Labrador Inuit Myths and Legends
Sylvia Moore - Verdde: Mutually beneficial research with Indigenous and Northern educators
Damián Castro - Infrastructures of knowledge re-emplacement: community ownership and access to indigenous data in Nitassinan
Myriam St-Gelais - Innu literature : the continuity of millennia-old voices
Eang-Nay Theam - Northern territories, relationships and stories – Littoral and reflections on our literary environment
Joanna Kodzik - The Arctic Life Stories Project : moravian congregations and decolonization
Catherine Ego - Translating, Tracing the Path, Transmitting
Jan Borm :- Narrative of the visit of Isaac Sharp to Labrador accompanied by his friend Edwin Pumphrey. 1865' – on the representation of space, faith and friends in the account of Quaker Isaac Sharp’s journey to Labrador
Daniel Chartier - Developing a new digital tool to make Inuit literature better known
Tuesday, March 10th 2026, from 4:30 PM
Dogsledding around Goose Bay
Source of the event image: UArctic