DIALOG (Réseau de recherche et de connaissances relatives aux peuples autochtones)
in collaboration with
the Department of Political Science, the School of Community and Public Affairs and the First Peoples Studies Program
PRESENTS
A PUBLIC LECTURE ON
Transnational Indigenous Feminisms
by Dr. Cheryl Suzack, (University of Toronto)
Thursday, November 1st, 2018 5:30-7:30 pm
Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, room 1220
Free admission
Dr. Cheryl Suzack is an Anishnaabe scholar from the Batchewana First Nation community in northern Ontario and Associate Professor of Indigenous literatures in the Department of English and the Aboriginal Studies Program at the University of Toronto. She has published extensively on Indigenous women’s writing and on the interface of Indigenous law and literature. She is the author of Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law (University of Toronto Press, 2017) and co-editor of the award-winning collection Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture (UBC Press, 2010). Her current research focuses on the papers of Justice Thurgood Marshall in the context of the Indian civil rights claims from the 1960s.