{"id":51286,"date":"2018-05-30T11:44:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T15:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=51286"},"modified":"2018-07-16T15:32:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T19:32:37","slug":"brock-prof-to-speak-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-at-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/05\/brock-prof-to-speak-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-at-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock prof to speak on missing and murdered Indigenous women at book launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robyn Bourgeois, Assistant Professor in Brock\u2019s Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, will give a public talk and reading at the launch of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/903-9781772123678-keetsahnak-our-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-sisters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters<\/a><\/em> in Toronto this week.<\/p>\n<p>The book, released this month by the University of Alberta Press, features academic and non-academic writing about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Bourgeois, a leading scholarly expert and survivor of violence herself, contributed a chapter entitled, \u201cGenerations of Genocide: The Historical Context of MMIWG.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bourgeois, along with other contributors, will present a panel discussion and engage in a Q&amp;A session with the audience before signing copies of the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/keetsahnakour-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-sisters-in-her-voice-festival-tickets-45591620765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets<\/a> for the event are available for purchase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/benmcnallybooks.com\/event\/keetsahnakour-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-sisters-in-her-voice-festival\/\">Book launch<\/a> for <em>Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters<\/em>, featuring Robyn Bourgeois and other contributors<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> Thursday, May 31 from 6:30 to 8 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> CSI Annex Lounge at 720 Bathurst St., Toronto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robyn Bourgeois, Assistant Professor in Brock\u2019s Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, will give a public talk and reading at the launch of Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters in Toronto this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6833,1,4,38],"tags":[6055,6056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52298,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51286\/revisions\/52298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}