The UBC Department of History is pleased t o invite you to this year’s 9th Annual Burge Lecture "Savage States: Settle r Governance in an Age of Sorrow" with guest lecturer Dr. Audra Simpson\, P rofessor of Anthropology at Columbia University.
Organized by the UBC History Graduate Student Association\, the Burge Lecture is an annual endo wed lecture made possible by a generous donation from UBC alumnus William B urge. The Burge Lecture series provides students\, faculty\, alumni and com munity members the opportunity to connect with historians and scholars enga ged in exciting research.
This year’s Burge Lecture is co-sponsored b y the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program\, the Institute for Crit ical Indigenous Studies at UBC.
Lecture description:
In what world do we imagine the past to be settled in light of its r efusal to perish and allow things to start over anew? What are the conditio ns that make for this imagining\, this fantasy or rather\, demand of a new start point? In this presentation\, Simpson will consider the world of sett ler colonialism\, which demands this newness\, and a world in which Native people and their claims to territory are whittled to the status of claimant or subject in time with the fantasy of their disappearance from a modern a nd critical present. This fantasy of a world without Indians or Indians whi ttled into claimants extends itself to a mode of governance that is beyond institutional and ideological but is in this study\, deeply affective. In t his talk\, Simpson examines how the Canadian practice of settler governance has adjusted itself in line with global trends and rights paradigms away f rom overt violence to what are seen as softer and kinder\, caring modes of governing but governing\, violently still and yet\, with a language of care \, upon on still stolen land. This presentation asks not only in what world we imagine time to stop\, but takes up the ways in which those that surviv ed the time stoppage stand in critical relationship to dispossession and se ttler governance apprehend\, analyze and act upon this project of affective governance. Here an oral and textual history of the notion of "reconciliat ion" is constructed and analyzed with recourse to Indigenous criticism of t his affective project of repair.
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