Neoliberal Memorialization and Indigenous Resurgence

Neoliberal Memorialization and Indigenous Resurgence

Categories: Lectures and Seminars

Friday, October 09, 2015

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Add to calendar

1811 Dunton Tower

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Stuart Murray, 2314, rhetoric@carleton.ca

Registration

No registration required.

Cost

Free

About this Event

Host Organization: Department of English Language and Literature: Research Talks

Neoliberal Memorialization and Indigenous Resurgence

Jennifer Henderson (Department of English Language and Literature)

What does the Monument to the Victims of Communism have to do with the controlled admittance of residential schooling into a public narrative of Canadian history? This paper argues that the subjectification of residential school survivors is joined to the production of a ‘state-phobic’ social imaginary in the current moment. The work of a major theorist of Indigenous resurgence, the Anishinabe writer and activist, Leanne Simpson, may be read as an intervention in this context.

Bio:
Jennifer Henderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. She is the author of Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada (2003), the co-editor of the essay collections, Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress (2013) and Trans/Acting Culture, Writing and Memory (2013), and the author of numerous articles on literature, governmentality, and settler-colonial situations. Most recently, she has published on media coverage of residential school litigation (Journal of Canadian Studies) and on the genealogy of the newly ubiquitous concept of psychosocial ‘resilience’ (Biosocieties).

Small reception to follow; everyone is welcome.