Provost Presents

Provost Presents… is a speaker series organized by Dr. Diane Purvey, Provost & Vice President, Academic, at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Each event will provide opportunities for KPU students, staff and faculty to hear from experts in higher education about timely, compelling issues that are pertinent to work and study in the field of academia.


Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre

killyjoy handbook“Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre” by Niigaanwewidam Sinclair

Niigaan Sinclair is Anishinaabe from Peguis First Nation and a professor at the University of Manitoba, where he holds the Faculty of Arts Professorship in Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics in the Department of Indigenous Studies. He is the award-winning author of the national bestseller Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) and was co-editor of Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water (Highwater Press), - the book voted by Manitobans in the “On the Same Page” competition as the top book to read in 2012.

Niigaan is a multiple nominee of Canadian columnist of the year (winning in 2018) and is a featured member of the Friday "Power Panel" on CBC's Power & Politics who was recently named to the “Power List” by Maclean’s magazine as one of the most influential individuals in Canada.

He is also a former secondary school teacher who won the 2019 Peace Educator of the Year from the Peace and Justice Studies Association based at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Unfortunately, due to some unforeseen circumstances, the Provost Presents on October 24th needs to be cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event at some point in the future.

Past Speakers

Robin Wall Kimmerer Discusses her Book, Braiding Sweetgrass - February 21, 2024

Sara Ahmed - Killjoys at Work - October 26,2023

Kumari Beck, PhD. & Sharon Stein, PhD. - Living With/in the Complexities of Internationalization - April 27, 2023

Jean Teillet - The North-West is Our Mother - January 19, 2023

Sunera Thobani, Benita Bunjun, Enakshi Dua - Coloniality and Racial (in)Justice in the University: Counting for Nothing? - March 10, 2022