TRC57 Speaker Series

Season Launched February 25

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs.

We’re excited to welcome you back for another season of the TRC57 Speaker Series — a free, virtual public education experience exploring how reconciliation is practiced through learning, responsibility, and relationship with the Land and one another.

This season takes the form of a book study, bringing together authors from the anthology Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous–Settler Relations and Earth Teachings. Across the series, speakers will reflect on Indigenous laws, land-based teachings, stories, and responsibilities that continue to shape how we live together today.

Together, the series explores a central guiding question:

What if reconciliation is not a destination, but a practice — one learned through attention, responsibility, and care over time?

Each session invites participants to engage deeply with the ideas in the anthology while connecting them to public service, community life, and personal learning journeys.

Recordings from past seasons continue to reach thousands of viewers and are widely used in schools, post-secondary courses, professional development, and independent study across Canada.

Join the full season

Be part of the conversation as the ideas in Resurgence and Reconciliation unfold across the series. Register for the full season and learn alongside participants from communities across British Columbia and beyond.

Borrow the books through Vancouver Island Regional Library or purchase them through our publishing partners.

The featured Season anthology is available through University of Toronto Press (20% off with code Resurgence2026).

Books from previous seasons are available through UBC Press (20% off with code TRC57).

Register now for the series

• Recording Available - February 25, 2026 – Dr. John Borrows – What if reconciliation with one another is impossible without first reconciling ourselves to the earth?
• Recording Available - March 25, 2026 – Dr. Michael Asch – What if the future of reconciliation depends on how we understand the treaties made at the very moment Canada came into being?
• Recording Available - April 22, 2026 – Dr. James Tully – What does reconciliation look like when it is understood not as a completed task, but as an ongoing practice—here on earth, in our everyday lives?
• Recording available - May 20, 2026 – Dr. Aaron Mills – What if reconciliation is not something we achieve, but something we must stay rooted in—together?
• October 14, 2026 – Dr. Starblanket Dr. Stark – What does it really mean to live in relation—with one another, with the Land, and with the responsibilities we inherit and carry forward?
• November 18, 2026 – Kiera Ladner – How do Indigenous teachings, stories, and laws rooted upon the Lands we share point toward different possibilities for governance, kinship, and coexistence?