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Quantum Entanglements and Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy with Zoe Todd

Public Stories Lab

Location

Online

Date & Time

November 6, 2024, 11:00 am12:30 pm

Description

The Public Stories Lab presents:

Quantum Entanglements and Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy: Looking Back on 50 Years of Critical Indigenous Scholarship on Science, Philosophy, and Fish in Canada and the USA


This talk will explore the trajectories that guide Zoe Todd's team, Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy, starting with the fish philosophers that inform their current work. Their late stepfather Wayne Roberts was a Red River Métis scientist who passionately defended fish, amphibians, and all manner of creatures in his career in Alberta; this ignited Todd's passion for fish science. Todd will also share how the work of founders of the discipline of Indigenous Studies, including Vine Deloria Jr and Leroy Little Bear, among others, shape their current thinking about fish, sovereignty and efforts to build an anti-imperialist prairie fish science in their homelands. 

Questions? Contact Viridiana Colosio-Martinez: vcolosi1@umbc.edu


This event is being hosted as a part of the 2024-2025 launch of the Public Stories Lab which includes a events co-sponsored by The Division of Professional Studies and Community Leadership Programs, The Shriver Center, The Minor in Critical Disability Studies, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, Department of American Studies, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program, and the Dresher Center's Digital Storytelling Working Group.

Zoe Todd (Citizen, Manitoba Métis Federation) is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Indigenous Governance and Freshwater Fish Futures at Simon Fraser University. They are a fish philosopher, artist, and activist-scholar from Alberta working towards establishing better ways to honor collective human obligations to fish in the prairies. They are also a co-founder of the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures (2018), which is an interdisciplinary collective of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, scientists, lawyers, architects, journalists, historians, advocates, and trouble-makers working to acknowledge our collective responsibilities to fish and water across plural watersheds and homelands in Canada and internationally.
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