The Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies and the Centre for Feminist Research present:
The Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies Annual Lecture
From Resistance to “Reconciliation”: Ruminations on Decolonization from a Feminist Metis Academic
With Dr. Emma LaRocque
TALK: 2.30-4.30PM
RECEPTION: 4.30PM
WHEN: October 5, 2017
WHERE: 519 Kaneff Tower, York University
Welcoming and opening remarks by Dr. Ruth Koleszar-Green, the Chair of the Indigenous Council at York University
The current trend to conflate “reconciliation” as decolonization threatens to obscure and obstruct Indigenous decolonization efforts. In particular, race and gender power imbalances continue to figure large in our society. The question arises: how can we resist colonizing forces under the pressure of reconciliation? And can feminist analysis (and allies) assist in shattering colonial lenses and in the rebuilding of Indigenous cultures and presence?
About the Speaker
Dr. Emma LaRocque is a scholar, author, poet and professor in the Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba, and one of the most recognized and respected Native Studies scholars today.
Dr. LaRocque has been a significant figure in the growth and development of Native Studies as a teaching discipline and an intellectual field of study. She has developed most of the core undergraduate courses and contributed to the development of graduate studies in the Native Studies Department at the University of Manitoba, where she has been teaching since 1977.
Dr. LaRocque’s work has focussed on the deconstruction of colonial misrepresentation and on the advancement of an Indigenous-based critical resistance theory in scholarship. Her prolific career includes numerous publications in areas of colonization/decolonization, racism, violence against women, and First Nation and Metis literatures and identities. Her poems are widely anthologized in prestigious collections and journals. She is frequently cited in a wide variety of venues and has lectured locally, nationally and internationally on Indigenous/Re-settler, or colonizer/colonized relations.
In 2005, Dr. LaRocque received the National Aboriginal Achievement Award. She is author of Defeathering The Indian (1975) and of When the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse 1850 - 1990 (2010), which won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction.
LaRocque is originally from a Cree-speaking and land-based Metis family and community from northeastern Alberta.
Co-sponsored by: Centre for Aboriginal Student Services, Faculty of Education, Department of Equity Studies, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode, Department of Politics, Social and Political Thought, Department of Social Science, Department of Social Justice Education at OISE, Chair for Indigenous Governance, Ryerson University.
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