2Spirit & Indigiqueer Systems of Care | 2026 IFRC Research Symposium

Описание: Join us for the fourth and last panel of the 2026 IFRC Research Symposium, moderated by Dr. Michelle McGeough with guest speakers Moe Clark and Maddison Schmitt.

This panel reflects how 2Spirit and Indigiqueer modes of coming together generate systems of care rooted in relation, continuity, and collective imagination. Centering gathering, storytelling, and shared creative practices, the discussion approaches these acts as relational methodologies that hold complexity, grief, joy, and contradiction, while nurturing kinship, and imagining vibrant Indigiqueer futures.

This panel also considers how relation itself becomes a form of resistance, how choosing to gather, witness one another, and share disrupts isolating and extractive structures, and how such practices affirm continuities across timelines and dimensions. 🎤

The 2026 Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC) Annual Research Symposium features panels, workshops, performances, and artist talks from faculty, students, and alumni of the IFRC.

Guided by the theme, “Practicing the Future”, this year’s symposium considers how Indigenous research and research-creation can actively shape the futures we envision.

Designed to spark interdisciplinary exchanges and highlight current research, this gathering reflects on the continued emergence and growth of Indigenous scholarship. It celebrates trailblazing accomplishments while foregrounding new and evolving perspectives on Indigenous methodologies. Now in its fourth iteration, this symposium has become an essential event where IFRC faculty and student members alike share their work with one another and with the greater Concordia community.

This project is generously supported by the SSHRC Connection Grant.