Community Engaged Research (CER) Storyteller Series with Dr. Jeannette Armstrong
Thursday, Nov. 27
11:30 to 12:30 talk, in person (ARTS 368), and via Zoom
12:30 to 1:30 post-talk lunch, in person
To register: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9vHuLB0sBeFnj3U
Please join us for the next CER Storyteller event featuring Dr. Jeannette Armstrong in conversation with Dr. Christine Schreyer!
Photo credit: Darren Hull, Darren Hull Studios Inc.
Jeannette Armstrong, OC, PhD
Jeannette Armstrong, (lax̌lax̌tkʷ) is syilx Okanagan, a fluent speaker, language teacher and knowledge keeper of Syilx Okanagan and oral histories. She is a Professor at UBC Okanagan and Coordinator of Interior Salishan Languages programs. Her PhD is in environmental ethics from a syilx perspective. She is a recipient of the Eco Trust USA Buffett Award in Indigenous Leadership and serves on Canada’s Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge Subcommittee of Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. She is a lifetime fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an officer of the Order of Canada.
The CER Storyteller’s has room for 25 guests in person, and the talk will also be shown live via Zoom.
This is event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Interior Salishan Studies, with support from the Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies.
