Dance Area Talk: Devi Dee Mucina
Performing Black and Indigenous Governance
January 29, 2021 | 12:30 PM 鈥� 2:00 PM (PST) | ZOOM | FREE
Please join us for the second in a series of free talks organized by the SCA's Henry Daniel and presented by the SCA's Dance Area.
Biography
Devi Dee Mucina (University of Victoria) is an Indigenous Ubuntu from the Ngoni, Chewa, and Shone people of southern Africa. He received his PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, department of Sociology and Equity Studies, University of Toronto. His academic interests are Indigenous African philosophies, decolonizing Indigenous masculinities, Indigenous fathering and other-fathering, and using Ubuntu oralities and disability studies to understand the social memory of Indigenous children.
Professor Mucina鈥檚 current research uses three distinctive continental locations鈥擜frica, Turtle Island (North America), and Oceania鈥攖o investigate how Indigenous men's associations are nurturing men鈥檚 relational health and decolonizing masculinities. At the center of this research are questions about how Indigenous men鈥檚 associations are supporting Indigenous men to renew traditions grounded in holistic relational engagements while being grounded in decolonizing Indigenous men鈥檚 holistic wellness which is intimately connected with the wellness of intimate partners, families, communities, lands and bodies of waters. His other research explores the impact of parental and familial members鈥� incarceration on their children and questions the risk factors this creates for their future incarceration from an Indigenous intersectional theoretical framework.
Devi Dee Mucina: GULE
If you intend to participate in this event, please watch Devi Dee Mucina's video GULE in advance of his talk.
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Other Events in the Series
Talk: Bill T. Jones
In conversation with Henry Daniel
October 29, 2020 | 12:30 PM | Zoom | FREE
Webster McDonald (University of Kansas) & Nikoli Attai (University of Toronto)
Gender Roles and Black Performativity in Jamaican Dancehall
February 5, 2021 | 12:30 PM 鈥� 2:00 PM (PST) | ZOOM | FREE
Caro Novella (UC Davis) & Kevin O鈥機onnor (UC Davis)
Practicing Bodily Relations Otherwise: Improvisation Methods for Engaging Health, Science and Social Justice
March 12, 2021 | 12:30 PM 鈥� 2:00 PM (PST) | ZOOM | FREE