{"id":14995,"date":"2014-10-07T14:16:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T18:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=14995"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:13","slug":"oct-9-chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2014\/oct-9-chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 9 | Chet Mitchell Memorial lecture"},"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                        Oct. 9 | Chet Mitchell Memorial lecture\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h4 id=\"new-location-room-302-azrieli-theatre\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">NEW LOCATION: Room 302, Azrieli Theatre<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Fall 2014 Chet Mitchell Memorial lecture<\/strong> welcomes as its presenter, <a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.columbia.edu\/people\/profile\/375\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dr. Audra Simpson<\/strong><\/a> (Columbia University)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lecture, \u201c<strong>The Chief\u2019s Two Bodies: Theresa Spence and the Gender of Settler Colonialism<\/strong>\u201d, is an examination of the geopolitical logic of settler colonialism and Indigenous (women\u2019s) death that underwrites the incredulity and skepticism that met (Chief) Theresa Spence\u2019s hunger strike in December and January 2012-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s strategic life in the face of a stated and willed death, continued on \u2014 as hers was a life that was already predisposed to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"details\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list event-meta\">\n<li><strong>When<\/strong>: October 09, 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Time<\/strong>: 6:00 PM &#8211; 8:30 PM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Location: <\/strong>Azrieli Theatre<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Room<\/strong>: 302<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"rsvp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">RSVP<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please RSVP to this complimentary event here<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/events.carleton.ca\/chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture-w-dr-audra-simpson\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/events.carleton.ca\/chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture-w-dr-audra-simpson\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"this-event-is-also-co-sponsored-by\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">This event is also co-sponsored by: <strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>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\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW LOCATION: Room 302, Azrieli Theatre The Fall 2014 Chet Mitchell Memorial lecture welcomes as its presenter, Dr. Audra Simpson (Columbia University)! The lecture, \u201cThe Chief\u2019s Two Bodies: Theresa Spence and the Gender of Settler Colonialism\u201d, is an examination of the geopolitical logic of settler colonialism and Indigenous (women\u2019s) death that underwrites the incredulity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[33,35,32,34,36],"class_list":["post-14995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture","tag-colonialism","tag-dr-audra-simpson","tag-indigenous-women","tag-theresa-spence"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14996,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995\/revisions\/14996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}