Abdenour Bouich

Strategic, community-focused professional with a strong background in Indigenous initiatives, stakeholder engagement, and project management across academic, governmental, and advocacy settings. Proven ability to lead culturally responsive programs, build respectful and reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities, and manage multi-stakeholder collaborations. Deep expertise in Indigenous data sovereignty, ethical knowledge stewardship, and AI governance, complemented by multilingual communication and cross-cultural fluency. Committed to supporting Indigenous projects and within relational, inclusive, and community-grounded approaches.

• Bouich, Abdenour. “Coeval Worlds, Alter/Native Words: Healing in the Inuit Arctic” Transmotion, Vol. 7, no. 2, Nov. 2021, pp. 77–104.
• Bouich, Abdenour. “Beyond the End: Indigenous Futurisms' Interventions in the Anthropocene.” SFRA Review, vol. 51, no. 4, 2021, pp. 160–71.
• Bouich, Abdenour. “Split Tooth, by Tanya Tagaq" Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies. University of Kent, 6 May 2021,

Workshops and Symposia Organization

• Final Symposium for iREAL: Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for Libraries to Support Respectful Management of Indigenous Knowledges. Online. November 2024.
• Workshop 3 for iREAL: Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for Libraries to Support Respectful Management of Indigenous Knowledges. Online. October 2024.
• Workshop 2 for iREAL: Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for Libraries to Support Respectful Management of Indigenous Knowledges. King's College London. London. September 2024.
• Workshop 1 for iREAL: Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for AI in Libraries to Support Respectful Management of Indigenous Knowledges. National Library of Australia. Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, (Canberra) Australia, July 2024.
  

Selected Conference Presentations

• The (Im)possibility of AI in the Management of Indigenous Knowledges in GLAMs. Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for Libraries to Support Respectful Management of Indigenous Knowledges Symposium. Online. November 2024.
• Indigenous Archives and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for Libraries to Support Respectful Management of Indigenous Knowledges Workshop. Online. October 2024.
• GLAMs and Indigenous Archives: A Note on Decolonization. Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for Libraries to Support Respectful Management of Indigenous Knowledges Workshop. King's College London. London. September 2024
• Indigenising Ai in/for GLAMs; Creating Spaces of Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-determination. Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for Libraries to Support Respectful Management of Indigenous Knowledges Workshop. National Library of Australia. Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, (Canberra) Australia, July 2024.
• Epilogues of Resistance: Sovereign Motions in Urban Native Narratives and Post-Mabo Sovereign Mentality Narratives, Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA), Winnipeg, Canada, May 2024.
• Alter/Native Wor(l)ds of the Arctic: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), University of Toronto, Tkaronto, Canada, May 2023.

• External Reviewer, Transmotion Journal for Indigenous Literatures Jan. 2022 – Present
• Exeter Decolonising Network Jan. 2021 – Present. United Kingdom
• Indigenous Theory and Method Oct. 2020 – Present. United Kingdom
• Exeter Chiefs for Change June 2020 – Present. United Kingdom

• Decolonial Methodologies Summer School, University of Exeter, 2021
• Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, University of Exeter, 2018-2019
• Leadership Development Training, The Source School of Languages, 2014
• Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française (DALF C2), Institut Français, Algeria, 2014