CNAIR Brown Bag Series: Indigenous Methodologies - This year, CNAIR is hosting a CNAIR Brown Bag Series under the theme of Indigenous Methodologies that will be open to the CNAIR community. We hope that these Brown Bags will be an opportunity for our community to come together and learn from one another and engage in conversations around Indigenous methodologies and how scholars across fields incorporate them in their work. 

Date: THURSDAY, May 25 

Time:  12PM - 1PM   

Location: PARKES HALL, ROOM 120

SPEAKER: Reynaldo Morales, Asst Professor, Medill School of Journalism

TITLE: Indigenous Research Methodologies and Global Indigeneity: Nexus Research for the Sustainable Development Goals' (SDGs) Implementation

DESCRIPTION: The presentation makes emphasis on Indigenous Research Methodologies in the face of global challenges, and the need for interdisciplinary research to understand the specificities of Indigeneity in different contextual realities, and the access and use of unique data from diverse Indigenous expert sources to accurately interpret, relate, and collaboratively produce artifacts that reflect on solutions and actions to environmental issues that affect Indigenous Peoples across the world. 

The presentation makes an emphasis on the need of enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ meaningful participation in the SDGs implementation, and the need to communicate the contributions from their knowledge systems to natural resource governance and management, and unique methodological perspectives in climate change and loss of biodiversity. The presentation also discusses the need for advancing a global Indigenous Peoples media hub to document and communicate Indigenous Peoples’ collective mobilization and actions towards the SDGs across the world.

Please bring your lunch to this special guest and short discussion.

We anticipate holding this event in-person but will do our best to provide quality Zoom accommodations. 

Zoom link -- https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/95658232712

Direct any questions to Michaela Marchi at cnair@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-4133.