{"id":14637,"date":"2021-01-28T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=14637"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:45:03","slug":"feminist-futures-in-a-time-of-pandemic-loneliness-and-the-affective-life-of-settler-colonialism","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/event\/feminist-futures-in-a-time-of-pandemic-loneliness-and-the-affective-life-of-settler-colonialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Futures in A Time of Pandemic: Loneliness and the Affective Life of Settler Colonialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Feminist Futures in A Time of Pandemic: <\/strong><strong>Loneliness and the Affective Life of Settler Colonialism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>A conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us for a conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt about his newest book, <em>A History of My Brief Body<\/em>, and his engagement with queer affect theory and critical race theory in his previous books <em>This Wound Is a World<\/em> and <em>NDN Coping Mechanisms<\/em>.&nbsp; We will explore Belcourt\u2019s provocative notion that \u201cloneliness is endemic to the affective life of settler colonialism.\u201d&nbsp; The event is hosted by Ann Cvetkovich, Director of the Institute of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, in conjunction with her course on Queer Public Feelings in A Time of Pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Billy-Ray Belcourt<\/strong> is from the Driftpile Cree Nation and Assistant Prof of Creating Writing at the University of British Columbia.&nbsp; A 2016 Rhodes Scholar, he holds a M.St. in Women\u2019s Studies from Oxford University. A 2018 P.E. Trudeau Foundation Scholar, he has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Alberta. He is the author of <em>This Wound is a World<\/em>&nbsp;(Frontenac House 2017), winner of the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize,&nbsp;<em>NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field<\/em>&nbsp;(House of Anansi Press 2019), and <em>A History of My Brief Body<\/em>&nbsp;(Hamish Hamilton 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/j\/97057624138\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Passcode: femfutures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[59],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-14637","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-feminist-futures"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2021-02-11T13:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2021-02-11T14:15:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14647,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14637\/revisions\/14647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=14637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}