Decolonizing Bird Knowledge Symposium
Schedule
Sat Nov 30 2024 at 09:00 am to 04:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
2649 Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V7H 1B1 | North Vancouver, BC
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Birding across Turtle Island is undergoing a long overdue moment of accountability and diversification, and this first-of-its-kind gathering heralds the future for birding. Join us in person or via Zoom to hear inspiring speakers on Indigenous Knowledge and decolonization of birding and bird knowledge. Through outdoor walks, a networking lunch, practical case studies and theoretical sessions this will be an inspiring day!
At its heart, Indigenous Knowledge holders continue to confront the biases embedded in western science that dominates this space, reflecting its colonial roots. Together we want to go further and address land dispossession and other decolonizing birding issues.
Speakers:
Stephen Carr Hampton (Cherokee Nation/Choctaw)
Melissa Hafting (Moderator/Walk Lead)
Jordan Rutter (Bird Names for Birds)
Karen Thomas (Tsleil-Waututh, Archeologist, President/Wild Bird Trust)
Cease Wyss (Squamish, ethnobotanist)
Irwin Oostindie (VP/Wild Bird Trust, Dutch Settler)
Les George (Tsleil-Waututh, Secretary/WBT)
Seth George (Tsleil-Waututh, Takaya Tours).
Program:
(Subject to chnage)
8:30am - Coffee & Baking
9:00 - Choice of 3 walks:
1) Birding w Melissa Hafting; 2) Decolonial Geography Walk w Irwin Oostindie; 3) Birding walk (addt option)
10:00 - Session 1: Tsleil-Waututh Welcoming
10:15 - Session 2: Decolonizing Bird Knowledge at Maplewood Flats (Karen Thomas and Irwin Oostindie)
10:35 - Coffee Break
10:45 - Session 3: Steve Hampton Keynote on Naming Changes in Birding: From Birds to Organisations - Dialogue to daylight the white supremacist roots of birding (with Q&A)
11:40- Session 4: What can US efforts at inclusivity in birding teach us? Jordan Rutter, Bird Names for Birds (with Q&A)
12:25pm - Lunch break
1:15pm - Session 5 - Reconciliation and Redress in Conservation - (Irwin Oostindie)
1:30pm - Session 6 - Whose Land are we birding on? Access, Displacement & Land Rights (Steve Hampton, Seth George, Cease Wyss)
2:30 - Break
2:40 Session 7 - Decolonizing Research and Organisations - Roundtable with birders
3:10 - Next Steps - Building Alliances for Decolonizing Bird Knowledge
3:45 - Closing Tsleil-Waututh ceremony
Join us for a series of speaking sessions, bird walks and activities that will explore:
1. Emerging culture shift in birding communities and efforts to decolonize, diversify, and implement ‘Two Eyed Seeing.’
2. Lessons of tackling bird names and efforts at un-naming from the USA.
3. Amplify projects around building inclusivity and cultural safety.
4. Consider where we bird and First Nations’ land rights beneath our feet. How does UNDRIP impact birding?
5. Be inspired by what Indigenous Knowledge teaches us about biodiversity and birding.
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Where is it happening?
2649 Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V7H 1B1Event Location & Nearby Stays:
