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> Hi folks. If you have any interest in the ontological foundations of
> Indigenous knowledge claims, my university has a colloquium series that
> we're conducting via Zoom this year. See below for the synopsis for Dr. Kim
> Tallbear's talk scheduled for Oct. 23 and the zoom link to attend. Best,
> -Joe
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>  2020-2021 Sociology Colloquium Series
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> Science v. the Sacred, a Dead-end Settler Ontology -- And Then What?
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> *11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Friday, Oct 23*
> *A virtual event on Zoom*
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> Settler-colonial society works hard to separate so-called spirituality
> from the material. This worldview inhibits settler society grasping
> Indigenous knowledges as knowledge based on centuries of observations and
> intimate relations with other-than-human relatives. Instead, Indigenous
> peoples are viewed as exceedingly “spiritual,” and dominant scientific
> traditions (including the social sciences and humanities) tend to denigrate
> Indigenous understandings of the world as beliefs rather than knowledges.
> The knowledge/belief divide stems from a hierarchy of life that the
> sciences share with major religious traditions. Within this understanding
> of sentience and agency, some humans rank above others, and humans rank
> above other life forms. More recently, thinkers such as the “new
> materialists” and multi-species ethnographers commit themselves to
> understanding other-than-humans in less hierarchical and more “vibrant” or
> agential, if still secular terms. But that “ontological turn,” while
> fascinating, may not be a sufficiently encouraging response in this moment
> of settler-colonial existential crisis. For those paying attention,
> Indigenous worldviews compel and edify. That is not to say that Indigenous
> understandings of the world can save settler society from itself.
> Non-Indigenous people must learn to live well together here, and it does
> not look good. Nonetheless, in an act of edification, I bring Indigenous
> ideas of being in good relation into conversation with the more sensible
> ideas of thinkers working within the settler state academy.
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> Dr. Kim TallBear
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> CRC in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment
> Faculty of Native Studies
> University of Alberta
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> Kim TallBear is 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 Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the
> False Promise of Genetic Science.
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> 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, Media Indigena. She is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in
> South Dakota.
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