The Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies invite you to join us for the ICCJ Winter 2023 Colloquium, “Questioning the Carceral: Prison Resistance and Indigenous Life,” with Indigenous activists, authors, and academics Joey Twins, Albert Dumont, and Natasha Stirrett.
Reflecting on their decades of experience resisting the Canadian state and prison system, Twins, Dumont, and Stirrett explore the intersections between carceral dispossession and the life giving strategies of Indigenous peoples, including artistic, grass roots, and legal modes of resistance.
This is a FREE public event. All are welcome. Food will be provided.
Joey Twins is a former inmate at the infamous Prison for Women (P4W). She was involved in the P4W riots as well as the inquiry that resulted in the prison’s closure. Twins is the recipient of the 2020 Ed McIsaac Human Rights in Corrections Award and a successful plaintiff in the precedent-setting Twins vs Canada wherein the state was required to extend the Gladue Principles to parole.
Albert Dumont is currently Ottawa’s Poet Laureate (2021-2023). He has served as one of 13 Elders on the Elders Advisory Committee of the Ministry of the Attorney General, as an elder for the Parole Board of Canada, and as a Spiritual Advisor for Aboriginal offenders of J Unit at Millhaven Institution. Dumont was awarded the Public Service Alliance of Canada – National Capital Region (PSAC NCR) 2010 Human Rights Recognition Award and in January 2017 received the DreamKEEPERS Citation for Outstanding Leadership.
Natasha Stirrett, is an activist and Assistant Professor at the ICCJ. In addition to her active involvement in urban community-building and grassroots mobilization, Stirrett is the principal investigator of the SSHRC IDG project “Mapping the Sixties Scoop Diaspora, Criminalization and [Re] Imagining Indigenous Communities through Storytelling” (with Jeffrey Monaghan (ICCJ) and Colleen Cardinal (Sixties Scoop Survivors’ Network).
DATE
Thursday, March 9, 2023
TIME
12:00-2:00 p.m.
LOCATION
Carleton University
Richcraft Hall 2nd Floor
Thank you for your interest in this event. Registration is now closed.
Paid parking is available in parking lots 6, 7, and 18 on the north end of the Carleton campus.