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North Slave Science Showcase

December 4, 2014

The Aurora Research Institute invites you to join us on November 3 (9:30AM - 4:30PM) at the Northen United Place auditorium (5004 – 54th Street, Yellowknife) to celebrate the amazing research that is taking place in the North Slave region. Come browse over 40 scientific posters covering a range of subjects and learn from our regional speaker series starting at 11AM.  Click for the event poster.

The speaker schedule is as follows:

11:00 Intimate Partner Violence Project
Pertice Moffitt

11:20 Connecting communities, connecting campuses: An exploration through infrastructure, technology and people
Tammy Soanes-White

11:40 Turning the lens onto ourselves: Settler colonialism in the everyday
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox

12:00 4 billion years of Earth History preserved in the North Slave region
Luke Ootes

12:20 First Mile Broadband in Canada’s far North: The K’atl’odeeche First Nation Community Network
Rob McMahon and Lyle Fabian

12:40 On Traditional Knowledge research, industrial development and caribou hunting
Joseph Judas and Petter Jacobsen

Everybody is welcome!

Land Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that the Aurora Research Institute is situated on the traditional territories and homeland of the Dene, Inuvialuit, Métis and Cree peoples of the Northwest Territories. We are grateful to the many Indigenous peoples of the NWT for allowing us the opportunity to learn, work and live on their lands. We are also deeply grateful for the generous sharing of Indigenous Knowledge, wisdom and ways of knowing, being, doing and believing with our students and employees.