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Dr. Deanna Reder | The Obligations of Stories: Missing Jim Brady and Abbie Halkett

2020, PFL 2019-2020, Arts + Culture, President's Faculty Lectures, Indigenous Voices

As a literary scholar I鈥檝e learned techniques to read and analyze stories. But I鈥檝e always been taught to use different ways to listen to the stories shared with me by my family鈥攖hat Cree and M茅tis stories are not so easy to hammer down, that they ask you to take responsibility for your interpretations, that stories can incur obligations.

In this lecture I will remember the 1967 unexplained disappearance of M茅tis leader Jim Brady and Cree councilor Abbie Halkett. I think about the stories I鈥檝e heard and learned about them and think about the responsibilities I hold because I listened.

鈥� Deanna Reder

Thu, 06 Feb 2020

6:00 p.m. (PT)


500 Granville Street, Vancouver
Room 1200

We respectfully acknowledge that this event takes place on the Unceded, Traditional, Ancestral Territories of the S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh, Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo First Nations.

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Dr. Deanna Reder

Cree-M茅tis scholar Deanna Reder is the Chair of the Department of First Nations Studies, and an Associate Professor in the Department of English at 丁香园AV. Her research focuses on the understudied archive of Indigenous literary work in Canada up to 1992 (see ). She is a founding member of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association, also called ILSA (see ), a co-chair of the Indigenous Voices Awards (see ), and the Series Editor for the Indigenous Studies Series at Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 

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