The Politics of Métissage Poster

“The Politics of Métissage: The Theories, Methods, and Perceptions of Mixing Lifeways and Identities” Conference

Calendar
When:
1 May 2025 @ 8:30 – 2 May 2025 @ 18:00
2025-05-01T08:30:00-04:00
2025-05-02T18:00:00-04:00
Where:
McGill Faculty Club
3450 McTavish St
Montréal, Québec
H3A 1X9
Anti-racism and decolonization

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.

Organizers:
Yann Allard-Tremblay (Political Science, McGill University)
Elaine Coburn (International Studies, York University)

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 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 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