The Indigenous Futures Centre is excited to host A/Professor Glen Coulthard as he presents a public lecture, followed by a masterclass.
LECTURE OVERVIEW:
A/Professor Coulthard’s lecture will provide a reconstructed history of Red Power radicalization and Indigenous-Marxist cross-fertilization during Canada’s “long seventies.” It examines the political work undertaken by numerous Red Power activists and organizations from 1967 to 1982. It argues that Indigenous political organizing and theory-building during this period borrowed substantively and productively from a Third World-adapted Marxism which provided an appealing international language of political contestation that they not only inherited but sought to radically transform through a critical engagement with their own cultural traditions and land-based struggles. Not unlike many radicalized communities of colour during this period, these activists moulded and adapted the insights they gleaned from Third World Marxism abroad into their own critiques of racial capitalism, patriarchy, and internal colonialism at home.
This lecture will be presented face to face at the University of Queensland St Lucia, with in person attendance only.
When: Wednesday 6th May, 4:30pm
Where: Student Central (Prentice Building) Learning Theatre (42-216), University of Queensland St Lucia 4072
Register for the Public Lecture: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-lecture-maoism-without-guarantees-tickets-1984447363484?aff=oddtdtcreator
MASTERCLASS OVERVIEW:
Diving deeper into the theme of the public lecture, this seminar will explore - through radical press outlets, print media, material from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and state obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI), secondary literature, and oral historical accounts - a history of Red Power radicalization and Indigenous-Marxist cross-fertilization in Canada from 1967-1982. We will examine the political work undertaken by several dedicated Native organizations and activists active at the time, including the Lee Maracle, Gerry Ambers, and Ray Bobb of the Native Alliance for Red Power (NARP), George Manuel, Marie Smallface Marule and the National Indian Brotherhood, Gina Blondin and Georges Erasmus of the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories, etc. It will show that the political organizing and theory-building of these people and groups borrowed substantively and productively from a Third World-adapted Marxism which provided an appealing international language of political contestation that they not only inherited but sought to radically transform through a critical engagement with their own cultural traditions and land-based struggles. Linkages will be made with similar efforts and intellectual exchanges in anti-colonial movements in Aotearoa and Australia. Readings may include selections from Mao Zedong, Micheal Hardt, Stuart Hall, Robbie Shilliam, Lee Maracle, the Native Study Group, the IBNWT, George Manuel and A/Prof Glen Coulthard.
This masterclass will be presented face to face at the Atrium, University of Queensland Brisbane City, with in person attendance only.
When: Wednesday 7th May & Thursday 8th May
Where: The Atrium, University of Queensland Brisbane City
Cost: $300 (support available for those experiencing hardship)
Express interest to Attend the Masterclass here: https://form.jotform.com/260617347028053
Expressions of Interest are due by COB Monday 13th April
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book, the Canadian Political Science Association’s CB Macpherson Award for Best Book in Political Theory, published in English or French, in 2014/2015, and the Rik Davidson Studies in Political Economy Award for Best Book in 2016. He is also a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a decolonial, Indigenous land-based post-secondary program operating on his traditional territories in Denendeh (Northwest Territories).
