22 avril 2024 : Good Relations: Consent, Reciprocity and Ethics in Indigenous-led Research

22 avril 18h à 20h (mode hybride)

Research for the Front Lines is partnering with Indigenous Climate Action and Shift Centre for Social Transformation to present: Good Relations: Consent, Reciprocity and Ethics in Indigenous-led Research, with speakers Elizabeth Fast, Marina Johnson-Zafiris, and Ojistoh Horn.

• 📅 Monday, April 22, 2024. 6-8pm ET/3-5PT.
• 🖥 To register to attend via zoom, click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/.../tZ0scemtpzorEteX8QcL0AVLqyPBn...
• 👥 You can join by zoom, or join organizers and speakers in person in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal at Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation, Room LB-145, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC H3G 1M8 (J.W. McConnell Building). Snacks provided.

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The space is accessible to people with diverse mobility needs. During this hybrid event, our speakers will be discussing what research ethics means outside of academia.

When we conduct research within universities, there are specific ethics and consent protocols that need to be followed. But when communities and movements conduct their own research,

• what ethical issues need to be considered?
• Whose consent needs to be sought and how?
• How is data held and managed to ensure data sovereignty?
• How do we ensure the research is done in ways that build strong relations and are grounded in local governance and knowledge systems?

Through short presentations and discussion, these questions will be discussed as speakers share their own experiences of developing community-led research ethics processes.

Marina Johnson-Zafiris is a PhD Student at Cornell University in Information Science, with a minor in American Indian and Indigenous studies. Her research interests focus on

1. computational community science and technological interventions for industrial accountability and socio-environmental justice and
2. critical data/information studies across Haudenosaunee Territory.

Marina is Kanien’kehá:ka (Wolf Clan) on her mother’s side and Greek on her father’s side. She is presently based both in Ithaca, New York and Akwesasne.

Elizabeth Fast (she/her) is Michif and Mennonite, raised in Winnipeg Manitoba and a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation. She is the owner of Elizabeth Fast Consulting, a small business certified by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business, Elizabeth specializes in

• research and policy development in the area of Indigenous research methodologies,
• Indigenous program evaluation, and
• strategic consulting for Indigenous organizations and Indigenous-led projects.

From 2015-2022, she was a professor at Concordia University and held a University Research Chair in Land-based learning and Indigenous pedagogies. She also acted as the Special Advisor to the Provost on Concordia University’s Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action. Elizabeth was a reviewer for the Indigenous research files on the Concordia ethics committee and has experience within and outside of the university context coordinating Indigenous youth-driven research as well as large national studies that have been concerned with how to ensure Indigenous data governance in contexts with various collaborators and partners.