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SUMMARY: Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present
DESCRIPTION: This talk offers a critical reflection of the invisibility in
working on Indigeneity in southwest Asia within the structural imperatives
of the academy. It takes up each of these themes by examining the fields of
international relations and Iraqi studies to show how the story of Assyria
ns is invisible or unintelligible across these fields of […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: This talk offers a critical reflection of
the invisibility in working on Indigeneity in southwest Asia within the str
uctural imperatives of the academy. It takes up each of these themes by exa
mining the fields of international relations and Iraqi studies to show how
the story of Assyrians is invisible or unintelligible across these fields o
f political science and Middle East studies. Moreover\, what the Assyrian s
tory tells us about these disciplines and the multiplicity of coloniality (
Patel 2019) is also rendered invisible. Despite the absence of Assyrians fr
om Indigenous studies\, Dr. Georgis sees this field as a site from which to
potentially globalize Indigeneities. Specifically\, she uses Indigenous fe
minism to construct a more nuanced framework into Assyrian histories\, a fr
amework that uses the lens of colonialism\, land theft\, erasure\, and geno
cide to reframe the Assyrian experience as a remnant of the colonial global
order.
Date & Time:
Wednesday\, February 26\,
2025 | 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Location:
Room 120
\, C.K. Choi Building\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC V6T 1Z2
This
talk is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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Speaker
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M
ariam Georgis is Assistant Professor of Global Indigeneity in the
Department of Gender\, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser Univer
sity. She is Assyrian\, Indigenous to present-day Iraq and currently living
on and sustained by the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salis
h Peoples\, including the Tsleil-Waututh\, Kwikwetlem\, Squamish\, and Musq
ueam Nations. Grounded in embodied decolonial feminist epistemologies\, her
scholarship is located at the nexus of global politics\, critical Indigeno
us studies\, and Middle East studies. Her research interests include issues
of global violence and security\; global colonialism\, Indigeneities\, and
decolonization\; and politics of southwest Asia.
This event
is hosted by the UBC Asian Studies Indigenous Asia Initiative Steering Comm
ittee.
Contact: Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura\, the committee chair
Email:
fuyubi.nakamura@ubc.ca
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