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<div>This is a friendly reminder that the 2nd RISN talk will take place this Wednesday. Look forward to seeing many of you there.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM Sibo Chen <<a href="mailto:sibo.chen@torontomu.ca">sibo.chen@torontomu.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">On behalf of the Racialized and Indigenous Scholars Network (RISN) at the Canadian Communication Association, I am excited to invite you to the second RISN talk
of 2025 (</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">May 7, 2025 06:00 PM, Eastern Time)</span></b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>. </b></font></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In this talk, </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Aandeg (Dr. Joanne DiNova) will share her </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">her forthcoming research-creation
project focusing on </span>Indigenous <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Hand Talk revitalization efforts.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please see below for the webinar details and the Zoom registration link. Feel free to share this email with your networks. We look forward to seeing you there.</font></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best Regards</font></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Webinar Registration Link: </font><a href="https://torontomu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_csBr5YkdSky-KKA5NZzPkA" target="_blank">https://torontomu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_csBr5YkdSky-KKA5NZzPkA</a></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Date & Time: <b>May 7, 2025 06:00 PM, Eastern Time</b></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Description: From time immemorial to the present, various dialects of Indigenous sign language (or “Hand Talk”) have been spoken across Turtle Island. These
collectively functioned as an embodied lingua franca, facilitating direct communication between a multitude of diverse nations and language groups without need for translation. The language was deeply rooted by the time European explorers arrived, as is recorded
among the earliest colonial writings. Today, with few fluent speakers remaining, efforts are underway to preserve and encourage more widespread use of Hand Talk (especially Plains Indian Sign Language [PISL]). In this talk Aandeg, an Anishinaabekwe performance
artist and emerging filmmaker, will situate her forthcoming research-creation project within overall Hand Talk revitalization efforts. Touching briefly on Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies, pedagogies, identity, and storytelling, the discussion will map
out plans to learn and record Hand Talk, an ancient Indigenous language, while also theorizing and artistically participating in its revitalization. The project fuses performance art, Indigenous theory and, significantly, filmmaking – both to document the
research and to highlight the importance of Hand Talk in the current historical moment. Bio: Aandeg (Dr. Joanne DiNova) is a Toronto-born second-generation residential school / 60s Scoop (1957) survivor. She is an associate professor in the School of Professional
Communication at Toronto Metropolitan University and a student member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSA). Following a career-damaging close encounter of the “Pretendian” kind, Dr. DiNova began curating a radical, method-acting performance/street
artist identity as Aandeg, or The Crow, a minor trickster-figure of ambiguous gender who enters the stage at the end of the world. The resulting research-creation functions as both performative autoethnography and multimedia art production.
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<div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">We acknowledge that Toronto is in the 'Dish With One Spoon Territory’. The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between
the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect.</font></span><br>
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