{"id":69977,"date":"2021-01-13T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=69977"},"modified":"2021-03-06T20:19:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T01:19:38","slug":"decolonial-reading-circle-to-welcome-mikmaw-lawyer-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/01\/decolonial-reading-circle-to-welcome-mikmaw-lawyer-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonial Reading Circle to welcome Mi\u2019kmaw lawyer, scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/09\/new-members-welcome-to-decolonial-reading-circle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Decolonial Reading Circle (DRC)<\/a> will virtually welcome Mi\u2019kmaw lawyer and scholar Pamela Palmater to discuss her book <em>Warrior Life<\/em> on Wednesday, Jan. 20 from 7 to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Formed in September 2019, the DRC meets monthly in two online circles from September to April to discuss the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls as well as to examine decolonial readings by Indigenous writers.<\/p>\n<p>Palmater\u2019s work addresses a range of Indigenous issues and clarifies legal and political implications for the public.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Robyn Bourgeois, Brock\u2019s Acting Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement, said the information Palmater will share is more important than ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Palmater\u2019s astute critiques of historical and ongoing colonialism expose the hard work that still needs to be done to decolonize Canada,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the DRC or to participate in this month\u2019s circle, contact Bourgeois at <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/womens-studies\/people\/robyn-bourgeois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/womens-studies\/robyn-bourgeois<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Decolonial Reading Circle (DRC) will virtually welcome Mi\u2019kmaw lawyer and scholar Pamela Palmater to discuss her book Warrior Life on Wednesday, Jan. 20 from 7 to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":69978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,6833],"tags":[9281,9863,9864,6056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69977"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70902,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69977\/revisions\/70902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}