Date and Location:
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
2-3:30 p.m.
PCN 2012
Keynote:
Indigenous Feminisms in Relational Worlds
This talk focuses on Indigenous feminist expressions and movements towards relationality with other living beings and the living earth. Through reference to the new, third edition of Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (Fernwood Publishing, 2024), Dr. Gina Starblanket explores the diverse ways that Indigenous feminists are enacting relational ethics and practices to create and hold space for critical encounters with Indigenous social and political discourses and contexts. It engages Indigenous feminist ethics and approaches to relationship and solidarity building as well as critical interventions around convergences with other transformative theories and practices
Bio:
Dr. Gina Starblanket is an associate professor in the School of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria. She is Cree/Saulteaux and a member of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Treaty 4. Dr. Starblanket studies Indigenous–settler political relations with a specific focus on Indigenous politics in the prairies, the politics of treaty implementation and Indigenous movements towards social and political transformation. She is the author of important sole and co-authored interventions theorizing relational responsibilities to the land, including Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial and the fifth edition of Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada.