Engaging traditional Indigenous knowledge and pedagogy can provide important insight into how to build stronger communities and greener futures, says Lindsay Morcom.

Associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Language Revitalization and Decolonizing Education at Queen’s University, she will address the topic in a colloquium entitled “Language, land, and community: How language revitalization helps build healthier relations,” Thursday, Feb. 10, at 4 p.m. on the Zoom videoconferencing platform

Dr. Morcom is an interdisciplinary researcher with experience in education, Aboriginal languages, language revitalization, and linguistics. She is of German, French, and Anishinaabe heritage and is a member of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation.

In her talk, she will discuss the results of research done for language revitalization with Indigenous communities in urban and rural contexts, including both formal culture-based language immersion education and informal language revitalization projects serving community members outside of a formal education setting.

The event is part of the Department of Psychology Colloquium Series and co-sponsored by the Psychology Department BIPOC Committee. Join here on Zoom.