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SUMMARY: Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Ex
 tremes
DESCRIPTION: How have Indigenous narratives helped Indigenous peoples cope 
 with and confront climate change? What does it mean to see and story climat
 e change not so much as a problem\, but as a symptom? Drawing on a century-
 plus of collective storytelling experience across multiple realms and locat
 ions\, this seasoned panel will discuss how Indigenous narratives reframe [
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><img class="aligncenter size-medium_large 
 wp-image-18187" src="https://cfcj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/
 45/2025/10/BeyondFiresFloods_Oct24_WEB-1024x576-1-768x432.jpg" alt="" width
 ="620" height="349" /></p><p>How have Indigenous narratives helped Indigeno
 us peoples cope with and confront climate change? What does it mean to see 
 and story climate change not so much as a problem\, but as a symptom?</p><p
 >Drawing on a century-plus of collective storytelling experience across mul
 tiple realms and locations\, this seasoned panel will discuss how Indigenou
 s narratives reframe and resist mainstream media’s preoccupation with extre
 me weather events to instead forefront what legacy newsrooms all but ignore
 : the colonial conditions\, institutions and infrastructures surrounding th
 ese events.</p><p>Part of <em>Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF)</em>\, a larger w
 eekend gathering of invited international Indigenous journalists\, experts 
 and storytellers\, <em>BFF</em> will explore the ways Indigenous narratives
  work to engage what climate change means on Indigenous terms\, and their c
 apacity to both ready us for what’s coming\, and help us navigate it once i
 t’s here.</p><p><strong>Panelists:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Judi Kochon<
 /strong> (Sahtú) has over 40 years of experience as a journalist\, and is c
 urrently the Sahtú Language announcer and Director of Radio for CKLB in Yel
 lowknife</li><li><strong>Paul Seesequasis</strong> (Willow Cree) is an auth
 or\, editor\, journalist\, curator\, and founder of the online Indigenous A
 rchival Photo Project</li><li><strong>Tanya Talaga</strong> (Anishinaabe) i
 s an award-winning journalist\, author\, filmmaker\, and columnist for <em>
 The Globe and Mail</em></li><li><strong>Mark Trahant</strong> (Shoshone-Ban
 nock) has worked for more than 50 years as a journalist\, columnist\, and e
 ditor\, most recently as Editor-at-Large for <em>Indian Country Today (ICT)
 </em></li></ul><p><strong><br />Moderator:</strong></p><ul><li>Longtime jou
 rnalist <strong>Rick Harp</strong> (Cree) has hosted/produced the Indigenou
 s current affairs podcast MEDIA INDIGENA since 2016. He also hosts the APTN
  News Brief podcast.</li></ul><p><strong><br />The panel discussion is FREE
  and open to the public\, no RSVP is required.</strong></p><p>Learn more at
  the <strong><a href="https://sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/beyond-fires-floods
 /?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SPPGA-Newsletter---October-2025&utm_source=
 Envoke-SPPGA-Newsletter&utm_term=New-SPPGA-Faculty-Research-on-Mobilizing-R
 eparations-in-Cana">School of Public Policy and Global Affairs event page.<
 /a></strong></p><p>Co-convened by CCJ Affiliate Prof. <a href="https://clim
 atejustice.ubc.ca/profile/candis-callison/"><strong>Candis Callison</strong
 ></a> (SPPGA\; CIS) and<strong> Rick Harp</strong> (MEDIA INDIGENA)\, <em>B
 FF</em> is sponsored by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation\, Global Jour
 nalism Innovation Lab\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, and th
 e Museum of Anthropology.</p><p> </p><p><img class="aligncenter size-medium
  wp-image-18190" src="https://cfcj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites
 /45/2025/10/BFF_Graphic-300x133.png" alt="" width="300" height="133" /></p>
LOCATION:Museum of Anthropology
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