Augmented Futures, 2023

Wellington, NZ.

Partnership with Massey University, The Dowse, PATAKA, and the University of Auckland of Technology and Design.

Global circuits transference across the Pacific, 2022

Sydney, AUS.

Partnership with the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, UNSW Galleries, and the Gallery of New South Wales.

Inuit Studies Association Conference, 2021

Winnipeg, MB.

The entire city will be taken over, with all the galleries and areas invaded with art, sound installations, academic discussions, artist and curatorial residencies, exhibitions, and workshops.

Nuit Talks - Nuit Blanche Toronto

Four week online symposium, fall 2020

Nuit Talks is a free program offering in-depth conversations, insightful discussions, panels, Q&As and performances with Nuit Blanche artists, scholars and curators. This year’s program is hosted by the University of Winnipeg and moderated by Dr. Julie Nagam. The curated 60-minute webinars tackle relevant and urgent issues of public space and art, access, opportunity, land, geopolitics, sustainability.

The Future is Indigenous

Winnipeg, MB. November 28–December 2, 2017

Dr. Nagam hosted and organized the third annual Symposium Initiative of Indigenous Futures entitled, The Future is Indigenous, which brought together a critical mass of artists, community activists, curators, and academics to present their visions of the future of Indigenous people. Over 45 speakers from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, and United States held multidisciplinary conversations about Indigenous art and media, scholarship, and cultural innovation. Performances such as Yakaskwan Mihkiwap “Light Tipi” and opening exhibition at Urban Shaman Gallery: InDigiNous Aotearoa: Virtual Histories, Augmented Futures with PATAKA Art + Museum and Urban Shaman Gallery. Dr. Nagam organized an Indigenous Video Game Arcade and Virtual Reality (VR) Stations showcasing Indigenous games, apps and hands-on makerspace activities with over 350 attendees.

The symposium is part of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) and the Transactive Memory Keepers Digital and New Media Mobile Laboratories Project (TMK), working in partnership with UWinnipeg, Concordia University and with funding support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canada Council for the Arts. With poet, Elder and visionary Dr. Duke Redbird as the keynote speaker, panel discussions will explore themes of “Dreaming of Our Future Seven Generations Ahead,” “IndigeFem and the Future,” “Games and Design as Resurgence and Presence,” “Land-Based Knowledge” and “Creative Interventions, Technology as (De)Colonial Tools, and Arctic Futurisms.”

North to South: Socially Engaged Indigenous Artists, Activists and Academics

OCAD University, Toronto, 2013

Public Art and Indigenous Public Places

Montreal, QC. April 2019

A one day symposium with 12 local and national scholars in the field of public art and Indigenous contemporary art.