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• Decolonizing Journals Workshop

  • When
    October 26, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Co-led by Dr Laura Forsythe (Red River Métis), Rhonda Kronyk (settler and Tsay Keh Dene), and Dr David Newhouse (Onondaga, Six Nations)

  
  

  This workshop offers journals a practical first step into ongoing processes of decolonization. We will offer a preliminary checklist to see where you're at in your integration of decolonial praxis (you can engage with this checklist during and after the workshop, too), as well as a resource list to support the journey. By exploring several examples of journals that have either been built with a decolonial lens or have been working towards decolonial structures, this workshop will lead into practical discussion about how journals can move accountably towards decolonial approaches.

  A zoom link will be sent out upon registration.

  This workshop will be held in English. Attendees are encouraged to participate in their language of choice.

  
  

  Bios

  Dr. Laura Forsythe is a Metis scholar at the University of Winnipeg in the Faculty of Education. Forsythe's research focus is Metis-specific contributions to the academy, Metis inclusion efforts, and educational sovereignty. Forsythe's contributions include five edited collections, numerous peer-reviewed publications, and the co-creation of two Indigenous academic journals. She is a citizen of the Manitoba Metis Federation. Her kinship ties include the Huppe, Ward, Berard, Morin, Lavallee, and Cyr lines. Her ancestors worked for the Northwest and Hudson’s Bay Companies, fought in the Victory of Frog Plain, and owned Lot 31, the site of a contemporary Métis space called Pakan Town. 

  Rhonda Kronyk (she/her) is a writing, editing, and indexing consultant. An off-reserve member of the Tsay Keh Dene Nation (Treaty 8), Rhonda lives in Edmonton, AB on Treaty 6 lands. Rhonda is a founding member of the Indigenous Editors Association (IEA) and a strong supporter of Indigenous stories and storytellers. An editor for thirteen years, she began specializing in editing Indigenous-authored stories after she attended the 2017 Indigenous Editors Circle, and since 2018 she has been educating editors, writers, book and magazine publishers, and university students on how to publish culturally respectful stories by and about Indigenous Peoples.

  David Newhouse is Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River community near Brantford, Ontario. He is a Professor of Indigenous Studies and Chair of the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies, was the first Principal of the new Peter Gzowski College at Trent University and has been Chair of the Department of Indigenous Studies, now the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies since 1993. He is also a Professor in the School of Business. Professor Newhouse is Co-Chair of the Trent Aboriginal Education Council. He was the IMC/U of S Aboriginal Scholar in Residence at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 1998/99. He also teaches in the Graduate CED Program at Concordia University. In 2016, he received the Trent Award for Education Leadership and Innovation. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Trent University Faculty Association for the past decade serving for three years as President and currently serving as Grievance Officer. His research interests focus on the emergence of modern Aboriginal society.

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