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Subject: Reminder :: Scott Morgensen Talk this Tuesday @ 11:45
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:26:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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American Studies @ Macalester Colloquium Series Presents-------------
Decolonizing Health: Native AIDS Organizing & Indigenous Methodologies
a talk by
Professor Scott Morgensen,
Department of Women?s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Scholars and agencies increasingly agree with a longstanding claim by AIDS
activists, that the AIDS pandemic arose and is conditioned by social injustice.
In the U.S. and in global alliances, Native AIDS activists specifically name
colonization as a core condition of Native people?s experiences of HIV/AIDS.
This paper examines how Native AIDS activists have theorized and critiqued how
colonial governance structures disease and health. Activists destabilized the
?power over life? asserted in colonial medicine and modern sexual science, by
pursuing indigenous methodologies of health, gender, and sexuality. Native
activists thus met health needs among Native people by questioning the colonial
logic of public health in settler states and international agencies, and by
asserting decolonial methods of health care and organizing.
An ethnographer and historian, Scott Morgensen investigates the racial and
national formation of movements for sexual justice and the colonial conditions
of modern sexuality. His forthcoming book, Welcome Home: Settler Sexuality and
the Politics of Indigeneity traces how settler desires for indigenous roots
have informed U.S. sexual minority politics, through critical comparison to the
decolonial theories and practices of Native lesbian, gay, two-spirit, and AIDS
organizers.
Tuesday, October 23 ~ 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Humanities 401
A buffet style lunch will be served
Free and open to the public
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Mellon Myers Undegraduate Fellowship Program at Macalester (http://macmmuf.org)
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