Budd Hall, Director, Office of Community Based Research and Professor, School of Public Administration

Whose local? Whose global? Knowledge, diversity and intersectionality in a troubled world

Hall's research interests include adult education, social movement learning, globalization and learning, participatory research, community-based research and community-university engagement.

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Lorna Williams, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Knowledge and Learning and Assistant Professor, Aboriginal Education, Curriculum and Instruction

Diversity: The key to life, living, existence and community

Williams is Lil’wat from the St’at’yem’c First Nation. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Knowledge and Learning at the University of Victoria, where she is the Director of Aboriginal Teacher Education.

Williams is an educator with many years of experience in Aboriginal education, Aboriginal language revitalization, curriculum development, teacher development, mediated learning, cognitive education, effects of colonization on learning and Indigenous ways of knowing.

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Christine O'Bonsawin
Assistant Professor, History and Director, Indigenous Minor Program

Declaring the Games open: The 2010 Vancouver Olympic ceremonies and the politics of Indigenous symbolism

O'Bonsawin received her PhD from the University of Western Ontario and has taught at the University of Victoria since 2007. She is the director of the Indigenous Minor program.

Her areas of research include Indigenous sport history and Canadian sport history as well as Indigenous/Indian policy.

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