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SUMMARY:Real Readers Reading: Child studies and children's literature in a
  settler society: Collaborating with Indigenous communities across discipl
 ines in Southern Alberta - Dr Kristine Alexander and Dr Erin Spring\, Leth
 bridge University\, Alberta
DTSTART:20170116T160000Z
DTEND:20170116T180000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Erin Spring will reflect on her transition from
  being a PhD student at Cambridge to being a Postdoctoral Fellow in Lethbr
 idge\, a small city on the Canadian prairies. She will begin by sharing he
 r new project\, a reader response study with Blackfoot Indigenous adolesce
 nts. The youth are reading a series of Indigenous texts\, including one se
 t on their reserve\, and are responding through discussion groups and jour
 nalling. She and Kristine Alexander\, her collaborator and supervisor\, wi
 ll then discuss the Opokaa'sin Digital Storytelling Project\, an interdisc
 iplinary\, collaborative project between university researchers and a loca
 l NGO for urban Blackfoot children and families. They are creating a digit
 al library of stories told by Blackfoot children\, youth\, adults\, and El
 ders. Blackfoot high school and undergraduate students are being trained a
 s ethnographers and curators of the digital library\, ensuring that they a
 re active participants in the retention of their culture\, history\, and l
 anguage. As settler scholars\, Erin and Kristine will explore themes such 
 as reconciliation\, decolonization\, and indigenization in the Canadian un
 iversity context. \n\n*Dr. Kristine Alexander* is an Assistant Professor o
 f History and a Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies at the Un
 iversity of Lethbridge\, Alberta. Kristine directs the University of Lethb
 ridge Institute for Child and Youth studies\, and is a co-editor of the jo
 urnal Jeunesse: Young People\, Texts\, Cultures. Her research investigates
  how children and adolescents in Canada and elsewhere understood\, and wer
 e affected by\, imperialism\, colonialism and the First World War.\n\n*Dr.
  Erin Spring* completed her PhD in the Faculty of Education at Cambridge i
 n 2014. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Child 
 and Youth Studies at the University of Lethbridge\, Alberta\, where she is
  conducting a reader response project with Blackfoot adolescents who live 
 on a reserve. 
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room 1S3
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