不良研究所鈥檚 Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Family Medicine invite you to a conversation between Inuk Assistant Professor Richard Budgell and Inuk Elder Reepa Evic-Carleton. The event will feature a lighting of the qulliq, a traditional Inuit lamp, and a conversation about Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (knowledge and ways of seeing and doing), Inuit values and realities.
Event details
Date: Monday January 30
Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm (in-person only)
Location: THIRD FLOOR, at the Department of Family Medicine, 5858 C么te-des-Neiges, Montreal
Transport: 165 Bus or the C么te-des-Neiges metro (blue line)
Refreshments will be provided.
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About the speakers:
Reepa Evic-Carleton was born in Cumberland Sound, Nunavut, and then relocated to the community of Pangnirtung, Nunavut when she was 5 years old. In the North, her work experience included working for 10 years as a Housing Manager in Pangnirtung and one year as Community Social Worker in Child Protection.
In 1989, she moved to Ontario. In Ottawa, Ms. Evic-Carleton spent 7 years working as a Family Support Worker at Tungasuvvingat Inuit, working closely with the shelter CAS Ottawa and sitting on the AIDS Committee of Ottawa. Ms. Evic-Carleton also worked at Pauktuutit, the national Association for Inuit women, coordinating national activities around the issues of substance abuse. She then co-founded the Mamisarvik Healing Centre, the first Inuit-specific trauma and addictions treatment centre in Southern Canada. At Mamisarvik, she worked as a therapist and then as the Program Coordinator. In 2017, Reepa joined the Innuqatiit Centre for Inuit Children, Youth, and Families, where she works as a therapist and facilitates parenting programs and healing circles for mothers.
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Richard Budgell was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine in 2020. He is a Labrador Inuk and lectures, writes and does research on Inuit health. In 2022, he developed and began teaching the first Inuit-specific health course at 不良研究所.
Prior to joining Family Medicine, he was a federal government public servant in First Nations and Inuit health, and other Indigenous fields, for more than thirty years. Has was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002 for exemplary public service in his role in the creation of the Aboriginal Head Start program, an early childhood development program for First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis children and families. He has a Master of Arts degree in Canadian Studies (Aboriginal concentration) from Carleton University and began doctoral studies in History at 不良研究所 in 2021. He is involved in a variety of research projects, including Inuit cultural safety in health care and the Inuit community in southern Quebec.
In late 2022, the Office of Indigenous Initiatives welcomed Professor Budgell to a new role as the Special Advisor on Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit.听Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit听translates as 鈥�that which Inuit have always known to be true鈥�听and can be interpreted as encompassing the system of beliefs and knowledge characteristic of Inuit.