“The Politics of Métissage: The Theories, Methods, and Perceptions of Mixing Lifeways and Identities” Conference
The final program is now confirmed!
On May 1 and 2, 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., come join us for the conference “The Politics of Métissage: The Theories, Methods, and Perceptions of Mixing Lifeways and Identities”, to be held at the McGill University’s Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish Street, Montreal, Quebec.
This 2-day academic conference seeks to explore questions related to the mixing of life ways and identities—or métissage—and the wide range of perspectives and political considerations that pertain to this topic, as developed across settler and colonial contexts.
Registration is free and strongly recommended. For more information and to register, click here.
Schedule:
| May 1 |
| 8:30 Arrival 8:45-9:00 Opening and welcome Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer Yann Allard-Tremblay |
| 9:00-10:30 Keynote 1 Emma LaRocque (University of Manitoba): Maybe Metis eh? The Problematics of Metis/metis Identities |
| 10:30-10:45 Coffee/tea break |
| 10:45-12:15 Panel 1 Dale Turner (University of Toronto): Métissage as Reconciliation Tania Islas Weinstein (McGill): Translating Mestizaje: The Politics of Racial Discourses in Mexico |
| 12:15-13:15 Break |
| 13:15-15:30 Panel 2 Elaine Coburn (York): ‘A Cursed Line of Mestizos and Tremendous Whores’; the Underside of the Politics of Indigenous Realness Catherine Lu (McGill): Indigeneity as seriality: Indigenous people as a social collective Kelsey Brady (University of British Columbia): Decolonizing the Boundary Problem: Taking Indigenous Boundary Problems Seriously |
| 15:30-16:00 pm Coffee/tea break – time in the sun break |
| 16:00-17:30 Panel 3 Documentary by Yasmine Mathurin: ‘One of Ours’ |
| 17:30-18:30 Reception |
| May 2 |
| 8:30-9:00: Arrival |
| 9:00-10:30 Panel 4 Melissa Williams (University of Toronto): Indigenizing Democratic Theory: A Grounded Approach John McGuire (University College Dublin): Hubris and Hybridity: Anxieties of Identity in Ancient and Modern Democracies |
| 10:30-10:45 Coffee/tea break |
| 10:45-12:15: Roundtable Aaron Mills (McGill) Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer Maïka Sondarjee (University of Ottawa) Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill) Yasmine Mathurin |
| 12:15-13:15 Break |
| 13:15-14:45 Panel 5 Daniel Luna (University of Toronto): Coloniality After the Critique of Forms of Life Tyler Loohuizen (McGill): On the Illegibility of Indigenous Affect and the Potentiality of Social Feeling |
| 14:45-15:15 pm Coffee/tea break – time in the sun break |
| 15:15-16:45 Keynote 2 Bonita Lawrence (York): Legal Indianness and the Expulsion of Non-Status Indigenous People |
| 16:45 Closing words |
*Please note that texts will not be pre-circulated.
Organized by: Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill University) and Elaine Coburn (York University).
