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downstream: reimagining water relations through interdisciplinary writing and Indigenous perspectives A discussion between writers and scholars Lee Maracle, Rita Wong and Dorothy Christian
January 25, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Great Lakes Waterworks 2017-2018 Discussion Series @New College, University of Toronto
downstream:
reimagining water relations through interdisciplinary writing and Indigenous perspectivesA discussion between writers and scholars Lee Maracle, Rita Wong and Dorothy Christian
When: January 25, 2017|6:30 p.m-8:30 p.m.
Where: Wilson Lounge @New College, University of Toronto, 40 Willcocks St
Join us for a talk with renowned Canadian writers and scholars Lee Maracle, Rita Wong and Dorothy Christian as they discuss their collection downstream: reimagining water (2016). Moderated by York University geographer Chaya Ocampo Go, the authors and editors of this book will discuss their collaborative work and the possibilities that interdisciplinary writing practices and Indigenous perspectives offer to reimagine our relationships to water.
About downstream: Growing out of a conference organized by Lee Maracle, on Imagining Asian and Native Women, downstream brings together artists, scientists, writers, Elders, environmentalists, scholars, and activists to focus on cultivating peaceful and creative cultures that foreground water as a builder of relationships.
Refreshments will be served. Questions? Contact justin.langille@mail.utoronto.ca
About the Authors and Moderator
Dorothy Christian Cucw-la7 is a visual storyteller who is from the Secwepemc and Syilx Nations of BC. Ms. Christian completed her PhD in early 2017 at UBC’s Department of Educational Studies. Her dissertation “Gathering Knowledge: Visual Storytellers & Indigenous Storywork” links land, story and cultural protocols. Publications include chapters in Thinking with Water (2013), Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity (2011) and Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous and non-Indigenous Relationships (2010).”
Lee Maracle is the Traditional Teacher in Residence at the University of Toronto First Nations House and author of a number of critically acclaimed literary works. She is also co-editor of a number of anthologies including the award-winning My Home as I Remember and Telling It: Women and Language across Culture. She is published worldwide. Maracle was born in North Vancouver and is a member of the Sto:Loh nation.
Rita Wong learns from and with water as an (un)settler living on unceded Coast Salish Territories, who has responsibilities to build better relationships than colonization could imagine. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and has written four books of poetry-mokeypuzzle, forage, sybil unrest (with Larissa Lai), and undercurrent.
Chaya Ocampo Go is a transnational Filipina scholar whose work is a commitment to life and resurgence in ravaged ecologies-communities at the front lines of the climate crisis. She is currently a PhD student at York University’s Geography Department, and a research fellow for the Citizens’ Disaster Response Centre in the Philippines.