Monthly Brown Bag Conversations: Discussing Decolonization Series
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Is it possible to decolonize academia?
We invite participants to prepare for this session by reading Marie Battiste’s Decolonizing Education (Saskatoon: Purich Press, 2013), Chapter 5 “Animating Ethical Trans-Systemic Education Systems” pp.101-124; and Rauna Kuokkanen’s Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007), Chapter 5 “Hospitality and the Logic of the Gift in the Academy” pp.128-155. Both books are available as ebooks through Queen’s libraries. Participants are still welcome to the discussion if they don’t complete the readings.
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