05/25/2026
Building on the foundation laid during the 2025 Transatlantic Workshop, our international partnership is entering its second year through a collaboration together with Crimean Tatar, Turkish and Ukrainian colleagues.
From June 9–12, 2026, "The Meeting Point: Turtle Island and Qırım Indigenous Epistemologies" Summer Institute will bring together Indigenous scholars, knowledge keepers and community partners in Tekirdağ, Türkiye, to continue an ongoing dialogue. The Institute creates space to reflect on how Indigenous Studies in Canada, grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, relationality and responsibility, and Crimean Tatar scholarship, shaped through displacement, resilience and the ongoing occupation of Crimea, can speak to one another across histories, geographies and cultural contexts.
Over four days, participants will engage with questions of Indigenous knowledge, sovereignty, language revitalization, cultural continuance, memory and decolonial research practices. Through presentations, conversations, community engagement and shared experiences, the Institute aims to foster meaningful relationships and explore what it means to pursue indigeneity within transnational and international contexts.
This initiative is organized in collaboration with MacEwan University kihêw waciston, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and The Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, Namık Kemal Üniversitesi Resmi Sayfa, Şefika Gaspıralı Uluslararası Kadın Birliği.
