Join the Department of English for the third event of the speaker series\u00a0How to Do Anti-Racist and Decolonial Work in the Academy and Beyond<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n February 9, 2021 from 5pm – 6pm<\/p>\n In Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang\u2019s seminal 2012 article, \u201cDecolonization is not a metaphor,\u201d they define decolonization as bringing about \u201cthe repatriation of Indigenous land and life.\u201d With this concrete transfer of (re)sources in mind, Dr. TallBear will address the differences between \u201cdiversity and inclusion\u201d vs. decolonization. Also drawing on Adam Gaudry\u2019s and Danielle Lorenz\u2019s 2018 article \u201cIndigenization as inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonization,\u201d TallBear argues for a more critical approach than the settler state\u2019s multicultural model of inclusion\u2014one that seeks to aid repatriatiation of \u201cland and life.\u201d Dr. TallBear will provide concrete examples of what repatriation looks like in the context of academic decolonization.<\/p>\n Kim TallBear<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment. She is also a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow. Dr. TallBear is the author of\u00a0Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science<\/em>. Building on her research on the role of technoscience in settler colonialism, Dr. TallBear also studies the colonization of Indigenous sexuality. She is a regular commentator in US, Canadian, and UK media outlets on issues related to Indigenous peoples, science, and technology as well as Indigenous sexualities. She is a regular panelist on the weekly podcast,\u00a0Media Indigena<\/em>. She is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota.<\/p>\n\n\t\tDiversity V. Decolonization in the Academy, a Conversation with Kim TallBear<\/h4>\n