Dr. Jessica Jurgutis - Are Prisons the New Residential Schools? Understanding and teaching the relationship between imprisonment and settler colonialism in Canada.

Event Date: 
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 - 12:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
via zoom
Event Contact Name: 
Stacey Pawluk Administrative Assistant Office of Indigenous Initiatives
Event Contact E-mail: 
admin.ii@lakeheadu.ca

Are Prisons the New Residential Schools? Understanding and teaching the relationship between imprisonment and settler colonialism in Canada. 

Dr. Jessica Jurgutis

Wednesday, Oct. 6 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

via zoom

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkcOmpqTIqGdCDoFdiRP9z7nQ0r...

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Description

This workshop will examine reconcili-action in the context of teaching about the criminal justice system in Canada with a special focus on incarceration. Participants will leave the workshop with an understanding of how taking for granted mainstream understandings of the history and purpose of imprisonment in Canada perpetuate colonial institutions and ideologies. Alternatives for challenging these assumptions in our teaching and learning will also be provided.

Biography

Dr. Jessica Jurgutis is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Gender & Women’s Studies and Indigenous Learning at Lakehead University. Her work explores imprisonment in Canada through an anti-colonial and abolitionist feminist lens.

Dr. Jessica Jurgutis

EVERYONE WELCOME


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