Disorderly Contexts: ELAC Conference 2024

In this session, author and artist Matthew James Weigel will delve into a brief background of the numbered Treaties in Alberta, and how the presence of care, reciprocity, and respect are foundational to our present relationships with the land and history. Using multimedia works, Matthew will show exemplars of how art and writing can especially invite students to feel the importance of Treaty in contemporary life, how newcomers or new knowlege-makers fit into this conversation, and why our understandings today are complex, shifting, and require a committment to always learning more.