Events hosted, co-sponsored or joined by the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL)
A workshop on March 21 at the Institute for Advanced Study at UCL on Marxist methods for analyzing the intersection of culture and political economy.
An itinerant gathering including performances, talks and interventions by individuals and collectives including: Alvis Choi Vanessa Gray ICE, Eva-Lynn Jagoe and Imre Szeman Zannah Madson and Christopher Alton Jamie Magnusson New Mineral Collective The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network Sherry Ostopovich and Anita Castelino Christopher Smith Please pre-register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-bank-the-mine-the-colony-the-crime-a-collaborative-walking-tour-tickets-72465453121 We Read more…
Decolonial reading group (weekly), Public lectures (monthly), Art and activism workshops (November 23-24)
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…
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…
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…
Join us each month to experiment with social justice-themed board games! For more information, visit: rival.lakeheadu.ca/games
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.
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/
