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Webinar: Traditional and Indigenous Foodways

Join the UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies and FLOW Partnership for the webinar Re-rooting Toward Revitalization: Lessons from Traditional & Indigenous Foodways.

Thursday, October 29, 2026
4:00–5:30 pm MT (time zone conversion)
This conversation brings together Knowledge Keepers, researchers, and food practitioners who are actively revitalizing traditional and Indigenous food practices across the regions known as Canada, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. While these experts’ foodways are entangled with lands and waters on either side of the globe, they will share overlapping wisdom for navigating food systems in crisis.

Featuring:

  • Kelsey Charlie, Tixweltel—Xwilexmet Director for the Sts’ailes Aboriginal Rights and Title Department
  • Te’o Lau Dr. Viliamu Iese—Academic Lead for the Drought and Innovation Hub and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne
  • Natasha Lyons, PhD—Director of Ursus Heritage Consulting
  • Ira Provost, MA—Manager of Piikani Nation Consultation and Traditional Knowledge Keeper for the Piikani Nation and Blackfoot Confederacy
Moderated by: Evelyn Nimmo, PhD, FLOW Research Lead and Curator of the Bryan/Gruhn Archaeology & Ethnographic Collections at the University of Alberta
Organized and supported by: Alison Blay-Palmer, Evelyn Nimmo, and Kelsey Speakman with the UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, and the Food, Learning and Growing (FLOW) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership
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