Philosophy Speaker Series

Speaker Series Talk “We Hear an Angel: Land Back and Rematriation” Abstract
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST
In this talk I argue that decolonization cannot be a mere transfer of land between settlers and Indigenous Peoples; it entails a much longer process of repairing Indigenous social relations to land. Responses to settler colonialism must not merely seek to repossess land as a fungible object, but take the even more challenging step of healing relationships to land as an ethical subject in decolonization. Because Indigenous Peoples generally see this relationship as maternal, Indigenous women and two-spirit peoples must be placed at the absolute center of our decolonizing projects and ameliorative politics. Without taking this step, our struggles will merely reify the very structures and processes of dispossession, patriarchal proprietorship, and Oedipal Empire that they ostensibly oppose. Land Back is an ameliorative politics of territorial rematriation.

Film Screening of Luk’Luk’I
5:45pm to 7:45pm EST
Film Synopsis
A portrait of five Vancouverites living on society’s fringes during the 2010 Winter Olympics, Luk’Luk’I takes us into uncharted territory, falling somewhere between a fiction we need to see and a documentary we wish didn’t have to exist

Speaker:

Wayne Wapeemukwa, PhD.

Everybody is welcome: community members, undergraduate students, graduate students, post docs, colleagues from other Departments, friends and family.