The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Series presents:
“Living Resurgence: Dre aming in Dangerous Times”
Co-sponsored by The Transformative Memory Network and the C entre for the Imaginative Ethnography
WHEN & WHERE
November 17th\, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Venue: xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)\, Liu Institu
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Seating is limited – RSVP to reserve yo ur seat in advance. Please note that all guests will be required to wear non-medical masks and have proof o f vaccination accompanied with a government-issued ID upon entrance .
All events are free and open to the public.
I se ek an invitation to a conversation on what Indigeneity means to the aboliti onist call for practices of “freedom” in places. It is to speak to the some times fraught and sometimes generous questions that are posed between Black and Indigenous Feminisms\, about land and about the after lives of enslave ment and what we might dream of just futures together if we think relationa lly\, in “constellations” rather than from silos (Simpson\, 2017). What is a promise of Indigenous economies as a practice of life making in place s in this moment rather than as a shadow of capitalism\; the lure of t urning Indigenous places into corporate mini-economies\, where the “implacable logic of debt takes over for the implacable logic of the white man’s burden…of the need for people cut off from circuits of capital accum ulation to develop their capacities\, to adjust to the standards of the mor e advanced world\, to reform their backward ways (Byrd\, et al.\,2018).”
Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) is Associate Pr ofessor and Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies\, Affiliate faculty in Canadian Studies\, and the Comparative History of Ideas Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. Professor Million holds a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from U.C. Berkeley. She is the author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights \, along with s everal enduring articles: “There Is A River in Me: Theory From Life\,” “In tense Dreaming: Theories\, Narratives and Our Search for Home\,” and “Felt Theory: An Indigenous Feminist Approach to Affect and History.” A forthcomi ng work “Spirit as Matter: Resurgence as rising and (re)creation as ethos” in an edited collection on Indigenous Resurgence in the Age of Reconciliati on edited by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark\, Aimée Craft\, and Hoku Aikau c ontinues her deep interest in affect and its’ power in Indigenous revitaliz ation and movement. Dr. Million centers her work on the effect/affect of ra cial capitalism/settler colonialism on Indigenous family and community heal th in North America. Informed by two generations of Indigenous Feminist sch olarship\, Dian Million seeks to illuminate the ways in which Indigenous li fe reorganizes and resurges in the face of colonial violence.
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