{"id":12330,"date":"2014-10-07T08:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T12:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=12330"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:19:54","slug":"chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture-w-dr-audra-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2014\/chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture-w-dr-audra-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture w\/ Dr. Audra Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture w\/ Dr. Audra Simpson\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Chief\u2019s Two Bodies: Theresa Spence and the Gender of Settler Colonialism\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us for this examination of the geopolitical logic of settler colonialism and Indigenous (women&#8217;s) death that underwrites the incredulity and skepticism that met (Chief) Theresa Spence&#8217;s hunger strike in December and January 2012-13. Dr. Simpson argues that the structure of settler colonialism in Canada showed its public face in blog posts, editorial commentary and popular discourse (not to mention formal politics) when Spence&#8217;s strategic life in the face of a stated and willed death, continued on &#8212; as hers was a life that was already predisposed to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 id=\"when-thursday-october-09-2014\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">When: Thursday, October 09, 2014<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 id=\"where-azrieli-theatre-302\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where: Azrieli Theatre 302<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 id=\"cost-free\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cost: Free<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 id=\"registration-limited-register-now\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Registration: <a href=\"http:\/\/events.carleton.ca\/chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture-w-dr-audra-simpson\/#reg\">Limited &#8211; Register Now<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is co-sponsored by: Department of Law and Legal Studies | School of Canadian Studies | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies | Department of Anthropology &amp; Sociology | Department of Geography &amp; Environmental Studies | Pauline Jewett Institute of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies | Faculty of Public Affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Chief\u2019s Two Bodies: Theresa Spence and the Gender of Settler Colonialism\u201d Join us for this examination of the geopolitical logic of settler colonialism and Indigenous (women&#8217;s) death that underwrites the incredulity and skepticism that met (Chief) Theresa Spence&#8217;s hunger strike in December and January 2012-13. 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