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Public Talk by Six Seasons Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jennifer Robinson
The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures is pleased to present “Community, Collaboration, Conciliation: Are We Working Together in a Good Way?,” a public talk by the Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jennifer Robinson. Her talk will take place on April 3 from 12:30PM to 1:30PM in the CRYTC Lab (3C26).
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Rocky Cree Language Event and Preview of Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow App
As part of the University of Winnipeg’s series of Indigenous language events in honour of the UN International Year of Indigenous Languages, the Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak Project will be presenting on the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak (Rocky Cree) language and giving a preview of the soon-to-be-released Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow picture book app at 12:30pm on March 28. This public event will take place in the University of Winnipeg Aboriginal Student Services Centre and will be followed by a feast.
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Restorying the Nation: The Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak Presentation
On January 18, 2019, Project Director Mavis Reimer will present "Restorying the Nation: The Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak" at the University of Alberta. -
Job Posting for RA for Six Seasons Production Team
The Production Team invites applications for a Research Assistant to work on the Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak Project. This research position will help collect material for an acoustic archaeology soundscape for inclusion in the production of the picture book app for the second text in the Six Seasons series.
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Six Seasons Presentation at 2018 Meaningful Play Conference
Mavis Reimer will be presenting “Playing for the Future: A Picture Book App for Cultural Reclamation and Reconciliation” on behalf of the Six Seasons project at the 2018 Meaningful Play conference at Michigan State University on Oct. 11. She is part of the Indigenous Games panel, and will be speaking about the game development in the Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow picture book app.
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Six Seasons Presentation at Synergy and Contradiction: How Picturebooks and Picture Books Work Conference
On September 8, Six Seasons of the Asiniskow Ithiniwakcollaborator, Naomi Hamer, will present “Transmedia storytelling, media genealogies, and picture book theory” at the Synergy and Contradiction: How Picturebooks and Picture Books Work Conference at the University of Cambridge.
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Six Seasons Project Receives Canadian Heritage Grant
The Six Seasons of the Asiniskow Ithiniwak project has received a grant from the Canadian Heritage Aboriginal Language Initiative Program to assist with the development of the Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow app.
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Six Seasons Research Assistants Presenting at Indigenous Summer Scholars Colloquium
Two research assistants–Özten Paul and Thamer Linklater–will be presenting their research on the Six Seasons of the Asiniskow Ithiniwak project this Thursday, Aug. 2 at the University of Winnipeg Indigenous Summer Scholars Colloquium held in room 2M70 on the University of Winnipeg campus.
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Collaboration and Community Engagement: The Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak Roundtable at 2018 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
On May 29, from 1:30PM to 3:00PM, members of the Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak project will be participating in a roundtable at the Association for Research in the Cultures of Young People‘s session at the 2018 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Regina. This roundtable will take place in Room LC 215 at Luther College on the University of Regina campus.
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Mavis Reimer Receives ChLA Diversity Research Grant
The Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures is pleased to announce that Mavis Reimer has been awarded the 2018 Children’s Literature Association Diversity Research Grant for Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak App Research and Development.
