Dr Audra Simpson, Professor at Columbia University, will give a lecture examining the invocation of trauma in the biographical accounts of well-known frauds to analyze both the content of their story of self-making and its imbrications with race and gender. She will explore how these are features of a settler colonial society that no longer only claims lands, but also claims selves, and historical experiences, as their own.
Speaker:
Dr. Audra Simpson
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Dr. Audra Simpson is a political anthropologist whose work is focused on contextualizing the force and consequences of governance through time, space and bodies. Her research and writing is rooted within Indigenous polities in the US and Canada and crosses the fields of anthropology, Indigenous Studies, American and Canadian Studies, gender and sexuality studies as well as politics. Her recent research is a genealogy of affective governance and extraction across the US and Canada.
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Co-presented with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. Co-sponsored by the Centre for Climate Justice and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice.
