Dr. M Murphy on Bird-Song and Place-thought in the Aftermath (Hybrid Event)

Hybrid Event

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The in-person event will be at the York Amphitheatre at Concordia's Sir George Williams Campus EV Building Room 1.605.

This event is affiliated with the Situated Emergences - Media Conference, but is open to the public (in-person and online).

Bird-Song and Place-thought in the Aftermath

Starlings sing new songs when they grow-up in persistently polluted lands. Desires and being shift. The relations of our situatedness go far beyond bodies, stretching outwards to lands, waters, non-humans, ancestors, and those yet to come. We make one another in difficult conditions. What can we become? How can we reach towards land-body desires when fossil fuel capitalism and colonialism continues to thrive? Following Frantz Fanon’s example of ‘inserting invention into existence,’ this brings Red River Métis feminist and queer land-body relations in dialogue with Vanessa Watt’s Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee understanding of place-thought to offer a desire-based and after-pessimism vision of anti-colonial justice.

Dr. M Murphy is a anti-colonial feminist science and technology studies scholar. They are Professor of the School of Environment and WGSI, as well as Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Environmental Data Justice and Science and Technology Studies at the University of Toronto. They co-direct the Technoscience Research Unit and its Indigenous Environmental Data Justice Lab, as well as the recent Indigenous Science, Technology and Environment Research Hub. They are the lead social science PI in the Acceleration Consortium’s CFREF grant with a focus on Indigenous approaches to ethical substance. They are the author of The Economization of Life (2017), Seizing the Means of Reproduction (2012), Sick Building Syndrome and the Politics of Uncertainty (2007), as well as the forthcoming co-authored Fear of a Dead White Planet, all published with Duke University Press. Murphy has twice been awarded the Fleck Prize form the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Their current research focuses on Indigenous feminist STS approaches to reimagining chemicals, exposures, and data justice. Their current project is called Alterlife in the Ongoing Aftermath. They are Red River Métis from Winnipeg.

This event is also part of the 7th Season of Disrupting Disruptions: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. Our series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC, Digital Citizen Research, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), the DIGS Lab, Milieux, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, ReQEF, and more.

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