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DESCRIPTION:From climate change\, to pipeline protests and environmental ju
 stice movements\, to conceptualizations of kinship with living and non-liv
 ing beings\, emerging scholarship from Indigenous Studies is broadening vi
 sions of how to live in the twenty-first century. \n\nThis keynote lecture
  and panel discussion features scholars whose work is pushing the boundari
 es of science and technology studies through questions such as\, how have 
 the biopolitics of settler societies foreclosed possible conceptions of fa
 mily\, health\, and environmental resilience? How do Indigenous understand
 ings of human-animal relations and human-land relations challenge existing
  systems of governance? And how are science and technology being used to l
 imit or strengthen Native sovereignty under twenty-first century multicult
 uralism?\n\nPoster art: The Indigenous Studies Program would like to thank
  Elizabeth LaPensée\, whose art (from the 2017 video game\, Thunderbird St
 rike) is featured in the event poster. She is Anishinaabe from Baawaating 
 with relations at Bay Mills Indian Community and Métis. She is an Assistan
 t Professor at Michigan State University. Discover more about this award-w
 inning artist on her website.\n\n\n	This event is free and open to the publ
 ic.\n\n\nKeynote Lecture: 'Caretaking Relations\, Not American Dreaming: #
 IdleNoMore\, #BlackLivesMatter\, and #NoDAPL'\n\nIn this lecture\, Dr. Kim
  TallBear will examine the caretaking of relations that she sees embodied 
 in several recent social movements led by women\, two-spirit\, and queer p
 eople. #IdleNoMore\, #NoDAPL\, and #BlackLivesMatter are commonly understo
 od as environmental and/or social justice/anti-racist movements that call 
 settler-colonial states\, including the US and Canada\, to make good on th
 eir treaty promises or civil and human rights law\, to live up to their su
 pposed dreams of liberty and inclusion. Since 2012\, Dr. TallBear has watc
 hed these movements unfold. Looming large in her vision fed by the 24-hour
  news cycle and more importantly by friends and colleagues on the ground o
 f those movements and on social media\, is Indigenous and black women and 
 queer people caretaking their peoples. In the case of Indigenous-led movem
 ents\, she also sees a caretaking of other-than-human kin\, the land and w
 ater—all our relations. In this moment of crisis—new to some but ongoing f
 or many—is an opportunity to unsettle the American Dream that brings viole
 nce to so many at home and abroad. Turning our redemptive attention away f
 rom empire to instead focus on caretaking relations defies a foundational 
 settler-colonial narrative—that nature/culture binary that puts humans at 
 the top of a hierarchy of life\, and white men at the top of that. America
 n dreaming is rooted in a vision that cannot see bodies in mutually sustai
 ning relation. It objectifies black and brown bodies\, women’s bodies\, la
 nd and water bodies\, and many bodies on down its hierarchy. The usually w
 hite men at the top—be they clergy\, statesmen\, or scientists—have long v
 iewed it as their civilized prerogative to alternately exploit or steward 
 life according to their animacy hierarchy. Their narratives script a parti
 cular structure of violence. This talk proposes instead another productive
  script. \n\nDr. Kim TallBear is Associate Professor\, Faculty of Native S
 tudies\, University of Alberta\, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous P
 eoples\, Technoscience & Environment. You can follow her research group at
  Indigenous Science\, Technology\, and Society (or on Twitter @indigenous_
 sts). She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the F
 alse Promise of Genetic Science (University of Minnesota Press\, 2013)\, a
 nd has most recently turned her attention to address issues of decolonial 
 and Indigenous sexualities. TallBear is author of Native American DNA: Tri
 bal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (2013). Her recent 
 work on decolonial sexualities builds on lessons learned with geneticists 
 about how race categories get settled. Her next book addresses relationshi
 ps between Euro-American settlement\, nationalism\, and monogamy. She is a
  citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota. She tweets @KimTa
 llBear.\n	 \n\nPanellists:\n\nJennifer Brown is an Assistant Professor of A
 nthropology at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma\, Washington and rece
 ived her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her re
 search draws on science & technology studies\, environmental studies\, and
  indigenous critical theory to examine human responses to climate change i
 n Southeast Alaska. In the past\, she worked as a tribal health researcher
  for Southcentral Foundation in Anchorage\, Alaska. She is a member of the
  Kíis Xadaay (Haida) and the Ketchikan Indian community in Ketchikan\, Ala
 ska.\n\nRico Kleinstein Chenyek is an MD/PhD candidate in the Institute of
  Communications Research and the Medical Scholars Program at the Universit
 y of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Their research focuses on the politics 
 of inclusion in U.S. medicine through a case study of the institutionaliza
 tion of alternative medicine at the National Institutes of Health. As a sc
 holar of the social and cultural studies of science\, medicine\, and techn
 ology\, they also draw on indigenous studies\, Latina/o studies\, and gend
 er & women’s studies.\n\nKristen Simmons is a citizen of the Moapa Band of
  Southern Paiutes and a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology
  at the University of Chicago. Her work engages energy projects in the Moj
 ave Desert as part and parcel of the settler colonial project in the Ameri
 can West: white supremacist militia land battles\, solar energy developmen
 t\, national security\, and new New Age movements. Key to her work is unse
 ttling treatments of indigenous political nations: in settler states\, ins
 titutions\, and disciplines.\n\nRosanna Dent (moderator\, organizer) is a 
 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and Classical Stud
 ies at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ. As a historian of science\, she studies how Indigenous peop
 le and academic scientists have engaged one another in Brazil over the pas
 t sixty years. She uses feminist science studies to analyze field-based sc
 holarship across the human sciences\, including human genetics\, anthropol
 ogy\, and public health. She grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania\, a sett
 ler on Lenape land. \n
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LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Feb. 2\, 2018 - Biopolitics and Beyond: New Directions in Indigenou
 s Studies\, lecture and panel discussion
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