April 1, 2020
This event will be presented live online via Zoom and Facebook Live on Wednesday, April 1 at 6:30 pm (central time).
To view via Zoom: registration is required through Eventbrite. Registrants will receive access instructions and the Zoom link via email on Wednesday, April 1 prior to the event start time.
Those who wish to view via Facebook Live do NOT need to preregister through Eventbrite; simply visit the DiverseWorks Facebook page at the time of the event. The recorded lecture will also be made available on DiverseWorks’ website after the event.
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Given the present climate, this lecture will center on the relationships between Indigenous economies, extractive colonialism and its attendant metaphors of infection and sickness. Beginning in the 1800s with the Klondike Gold Rush, early forms of capitalism and resource extraction in my homelands of Yukon, Canada were commonly described as viral: “So infectious was the Klondike epidemic that that flimsiest rumor served to send hundreds dashing to the farthest corners of the northern hemisphere.” There remains a performative rhetoric of “sickness” associated with capitalist desire, one which enacts the symptoms of Western colonialism while simultaneously constituting a public acknowledgment of colonialism’s existence and its inherent violence. Through looking at the relative contingencies between Indigenous economies and wealth and colonial capitalism, this talk seeks to learn from this particular historical moment as a means to shed light on our own. — Candice Hopkins
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