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Theorizing Violence Against Indigenous Women
- Workshop Series
- September 8, 2023
Distinguished Guest
Marion Buller is a judge and human rights advocate who helped form the First Nations Courts in British Columbia and is the first woman Indigenous judge in Canada. She was the Chief Commissioner for the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. She is currently Chancellor of the University of Victoria, BC.
Presenters
Dr. Sherene H. Razack
Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair Emerita in Gender Studies Her most recent book is: Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism (2022).
Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale
Chair of the Navajo Human Rights Commission, co-author, Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation (2021) and author of Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita (2007).
She is the director of UNM’s Institute for American Indian Research (IfAIR).
Dr. Gina Starblanket
Cree and Saulteaux, member of the Star Blanket Cree Nation, co-author of Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial (2020). She is the principal investigator of the SSHRC-funded Prairie Relationality Network and co-editor of Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada (2019).
Dr. Jaskiran Dhillon
Author of Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization and the
Politics of Intervention (2017) and co-editor of Standing With Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement (2019).
Dr. Shannon Speed
Author of Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State (2019). She is Director of the American Indian Studies Center (AISC) at UCLA and recently co-edited Indigenous Women and Violence: Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice (2021).