S茅ance l'茅crivain et ses lecteurs avec la professeure Audra Simpon, auteure de "Mohawk Interruptus"
Le cours de th茅orie critique de la race accueille la professeure Audra Simpson, auteure of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States.
[en anglais seulement]
(Duke University Press, 2014) is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnaw脿:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism.
About the author
Audra Simpson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her book Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press) garnered several 鈥渇irst book鈥� awards and honourable mentions. She is co-editor of the collection Theorizing Native Studies, (Duke University Press). She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Fulbright, the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, Dartmouth College, the American Anthropological Association, Cornell University and the School for Advanced Research.
Coffee and snacks will be served.
Professor Simpson鈥檚 visit is co-sponsored by the Law Teaching Network and the Annie MacDonald Langstaff Series, and supported by the Margot E. Halpenny Fund.
