Encouraging Relational Technologies in British Columbia

Daisy Rosenblum teaches in Critical Indigenous Studies and Anthropology at UBC-Vancouver on Musqueam territory. She co-founded and directs CEDaR Space, a lab for community-led development of relational technologies to support cultural and linguistic continuity. Her partnerships with communities engaged in language reclamation draw on her training and experience as a discourse-functional linguist, an elementary school art teacher, and maker-organizer-advocate of art and community gardens in urban and rural contexts. She has worked closely with Bak̕wa̱mk̓ala and Kwak̓wala language revitalization programs for over fifteen years, as well as with scholars and students from around the world, toward long-term goals of linguistic and territorial sovereignty.

David Gaertner is a settler scholar and an associate professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at UBC-Vancouver. He writes, researches, and teaches new media, critical Indigenous studies, Indigenous literatures, contemporary Canadian literature, cultural theories of reconciliation, and speculative fiction. His most recent writing appears in Transmotion, Anglistica AION, and Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities. He is the author of The Theatre of Regret: Literature, Art and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada (UBC Press) and editor of Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe (WLU Press).