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Please join the Political Theory Colloquium from noon-1:30pm CST, Feb 7 for Professor Glen Coulthard's presentation of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition and conversation with Professor Jackie Stevens.

Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book, the Canadian Political Science Association’s CB Macpherson Award for Best Book in Political Theory, published in English or French, in 2014/2015, and the Rik Davidson Studies in Political Economy Award for Best Book in 2016. He is also a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a decolonial, Indigenous land-based post-secondary program operating on his traditional territories in Denendeh(Northwest Territories).

The event will be hosted in hybrid format. You may attend in person in Scott Hall 212 or participate on Zoom. For Zoom meeting, please register below. 

A limited quantity of funded copies of Professor Coulthard's book are available.  You may pick up one up in Scott Hall, Rm. 20, Thursday 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on February 3.