Andrea Smith, Ph.D.
Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 6:00pm
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Please join us in welcoming Andrea Smith, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California-Riverside, who will be delivering the 2013 Miranda Joseph Annual Endowed Lecture and participating in several other events, March 7-8, all of which are free and open to the public. Details for all events below. |
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Surviving and Thriving in Academia as a Scholar-Activist: A Conversation with Andrea Smith Thursday March 07, 2013 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Please join us for an informal conversation with Dr. Andrea Smith, the 2013 Miranda Joseph Lecture speaker. Dr. Smith has been an inspiration for scholars committed to combining social justice activism with their research. Come hear about her experiences and insights on integrating activism and scholarship, getting through the tenure process and creating supportive spaces. This event is open to all, but especially geared toward graduate students and junior faculty. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch. |
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Against Ethnographic Entrapment: Queering the Politics of Settler Self-Reflexivity Thursday, March 7, 2013 5:30pm-7:00pm Center for Creative Photography Auditorium 1030 Olive Road Tucson, AZ 85721 Reception: 7:00pm-8:00pm |
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This talk will focus on how Native peoples are situated in a position of ethnographic entrapment within academia and activism. Borrowing from Rey Chow, the only rhetorical position offered to the Native is that of the "protesting ethnic": if we complain eloquently, the system will give us something. Building on Chow's work, the talk will then explore how another posture created within this economy is that of the self-reflexive (settler) subject. These self-reflexive subjects are frequently on display at various anti-racist venues in which they explain how much they learned about their complicity in settler colonialism and/or white supremacy because of their exposure to Native peoples. The subjectivity of the self-reflexive subject is reaffirmed against the foil of the "oppressed" people who provide the occasion for this self-reflection. The talk concludes by exploring alternatives to self-reflexivity for anti-racist/anti-colonial thought and practice that emerge from the intersections of queer and indigenous studies. |
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MalintZINE hosts Andrea Smith: Accountability is Decolonial Fri, March 8, 2013 Doors open at 6:00 PM Free and open to the public Please join us for a community dialogue with Andrea Smith, co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and a scholar-activist with many years of experience in anti-violence movements. This event will be hosted by MalintZINE: an online (and paper) zine by radical women and queer people of color based in Tucson, AZ. Please visit our blog athttp://malintzine.com |
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Professor Smith earned her bachelor's degree at Harvard University in Comparative Study of Religion, her Master's of Divinity at the Union Theological Seminary and her doctorate in History of Consciousness Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. Professor Smith co-founded the group INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and founded the Boarding School Healing Project. She is author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide and Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliance. Smith has also edited The Color of Violence and The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex. Professor Smith currently serves as the U.S. Coordinator for the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians. |
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Department of Gender and Women's Studies