"Quantum Entanglements and Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy: looking back on 50 years of Critical Indigenous scholarship on science, philosophy, and fish in Canada and the USA"
The Public Stories Lab Presents: "Quantum Entanglements and Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy: looking back on 50 years of Critical Indigenous scholarship on science, philosophy, and fish in Canada and the USA"
Virtual Event: November 6, 2024
from 11:00-12:30 pm EST
Public Stories Lab
Please join us for an enlightening dialogue with fish philosopher, artist, and activist-scholar Zoe Todd.
This talk will explore the trajectories that guide my team's 'Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy', starting with the fish philosophers that inform my current work. First and foremost, my late stepfather, Wayne Roberts, who was a Red River Métis scientist who passionately defended fish, amphibians, and all manner of creatures in his career in Alberta and ignited my passion for fish science when I was a child. I will also share how the work of founders of the discipline of Indigenous Studies, including Vine Deloria Jr and Leroy Little Bear, among others, shape my current thinking about fish, sovereignty and my team's efforts to build an anti-imperialist prairie fish science in our homelands.
Zoe Todd (Citizen, Manitoba Métis Federation) is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Indigenous Governance and Freshwater Fish Futures at Simon Fraser University. They are a fish philosopher, artist, and activist-scholar from Alberta working towards establishing better ways to honour collective human obligations to fish in the prairies. They are also a co-founder of the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures (2018), which is an interdisciplinary collective of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, scientists, lawyers, architects, journalists, historians, advocates, and trouble-makers working to acknowledge our collective responsibilities to fish and water across plural watersheds and homelands in Canada and internationally.
This event is being hosted as a part of the 2024-2025 Launch of the Public Stories lab which includes a events Co-sponsored by The Division of Professional Studies and Community Leadership Programs, The Shriver Center, The Minor in Critical Disability Studies, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, Department of American Studies, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program, Dresher Center Faculty group on Digital Storytelling.