SJS Annual Lecture
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Dear Friends of SJS,
Please join us this Thursday, March 17th for the Social Justice Studies Annual Lecture:
Dr. Dian MillionUniversity of Washington
Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights: A Conversation with a literature of damages, marketability, truth and telling.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
7 pm - 9 pm
David Turpin Building A120
University of Victoria, Songhees, Esquimalt & WSÁNEĆ Traditional Lands
Dr Million will also be our guest and keynote speaker on Friday, March 18th for a TRC Action Event:
"Practicing 'Decolonial Love': Damages, Relations, Truth and Telling"
Friday, March 18, 2016
10:30 am – 1:30 pm
Ceremonial Hall, First Peoples House
University of Victoria,
If you’re on FACEBOOK:
Annual Lecture:
https://www.facebook.com/events/206317899729932/
Practicing 'Decolonial Love'
https://www.facebook.com/events/537172989798576/
See posters for details and website for more information: https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/dianmillion/
Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) is an Associate Professor in American Indian Studies and Affiliated Faculty in Canadian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Million is the author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights (University of Arizona Press, 2013). As an active writer and poet she strives to bring experiential and felt thought to classrooms. Dian Million has been part of an ongoing Indigenous conversation on theory and Native studies. Million is the author of “Felt Theory: An Indigenous Feminist Approach to Affect and History,” “Intense Dreaming: Theories, Narratives and Our Search for Home,” and most recently “There is a River in Me: Theory from Life” in Theorizing Native Studies (Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith, Eds., Duke University Press, 2013). She teaches courses on Indigenous politics, literatures, feminisms and social issues.
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Margo MatwychukDirector
Social Justice Studies ProgramUniversity of Victoriaweb.uvic.ca/socialjustice/@UVicSJS on TwitterUVicSJS on FacebookUVicSJS on YouTube
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