Fisher Center: Todd on Indigenous Feminism
11 March 2016 Fisher Center: Todd on Indigenous Feminism
Zoe Todd will deliver the second talk in the Fisher Center spring series, Indigenizing the Anthropocene: Prairie Indigenous Feminisms and FishCo-Conspirators, on Wednesday, March 30.
Since atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen popularized the term in 2000, the Anthropocene has become a political marker, designating the epoch in which human actions began to have geologic impact.For 2015-16, the Fisher Center is investigating the gendered dimensions of the Anthropocene; considering where we are geologically as a species; raising up the movements and creative responses crucial to politics in the Anthropocene; and highlighting local activism and mapping the global terrain of the current struggle for climate justice.
Taking the year 1610 as a possiblestart date of the Anthropocene as it coincides not only with themovement of species between continents in expanding global trade routes, but also with the genocide of 50 million Indigenous people in the Americas Todd will examine the intertwined experiences of humans and more-than-human beings. She will focus on the experiences of Indigenous peoples in what is today known as Canada, dwelling on the stories and historiesofgenerations of women in her Metis (Indigenous) family and the fish they shared territory with.
Todd (Metis) is from Amiskwaciwskahikan (Edmonton) in the Treaty Six Area of Alberta, Canada. She writes about indigeneity, art, architecture, decolonization and healing in urban contexts. She also studies human-animal relations, colonialism and environmental change in northern Canada. She is a lecturer in anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and a Ph.D. candidate in social anthropology at Aberdeen University, Scotland.
Her talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Fisher Center, Demarest Hall Room 212.
The Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Menbrings together faculty, students, and experts in gender-related fields in the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences to foster mutual understanding and social justice in contemporary society. Building upon their long-held commitment to interdisciplinary liberal arts education for men and women, both separately and together, In 1998, Hobart and William Smith Colleges established the Fisher Center to support curricular, programmatic, and scholarly projects which address the question: How do we more nearly realize, through our educational program, scholarship, and presence in the larger community, our democratic ideals of equity, mutual respect, and common interest in relations between men and women?