Events
Fall 2019 public events in Thunder Bay
Decolonial reading group (weekly), Public lectures (monthly), Art and activism workshops (November 23-24)
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Events hosted, co-sponsored or joined by the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL)
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Fall 2019 lecture series: Imagination, Anxiety, Revenge
RiVAL and the Thunder Bay Public Library are pleased to present a series of three lectures by RiVAL’s co-director and Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University Dr. Max Haiven. Saturday, September 21, 2pm: The Power and Poverty of the Imagination Saturday, October 26, 2pm: Read more…
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The bank, the mine, the colony, the crime: A walk for the radical imagination against Bay Street – October 5
Please submit proposals to present or participate, or sign up for updates here by July 15: https://forms.gle/WKH9WhuBt8cXR5Va9 Toronto’s financial district, built on stolen Haudenosaunee and Mississauga lands, is home to many ghosts, notably those dispossessed by the global extractive industry headquartered on the city’s infamous Bay Street. The violence of Read more…
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RiVAL fall 2018 events in Thunder Bay for social justice and decolonization
This is a quick note to tell you about all the exciting events we have planned for the fall, which is already underway. First comes a quick calendar and beneath that descriptions of the events. RiVAL is a workshop for the radical imagination located physically in Thunder Bay’s North Core Read more…
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Three fall 2017 visitors
RiVAL is pleased to welcome three visiting speakers/presenters this fall. Anti-Ethnography: Indigenous responses to colonial gaze Film screening and discussion with Brooklyn-based Ojibwe film-makers Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil: a curated selection of video works which examines the violence inherent in the ethnographic impulse, and unveils the absurd fetishism underpinning the Read more…
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Games Against Empire board-games night
Join us each month to experiment with social justice-themed board games! For more information, visit: rival.lakeheadu.ca/games
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Feminist Economics Yoga – Tuesdays at noon
Join us! RiVAL Research-Creation Associate Cassie Thornton will be leading a series of ‘free’ yoga classes dedicated to exploring feminist economics and liberation from money throughout fall 2017. For more information please visit: rival.lakeheadu.ca/yoga.
Collaborations
Colonial Debts, Extractive Nostalgias, Imperial Insolvencies: ReImagining Financialization
RiVAL is pleased to be co-organizing this important scholarly gathering in London, UK, September 22-23 2017. For more information, visit: http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/colonial-debts-extractive-nostalgias-imperial-insolvencies-reimagining-financialization/