storytelling & epistemic reparations

​What forms can storytelling take beyond those told in words and print? What role can storytelling play in the healing process for victims of gross violations of human rights?

​In this free public event, Epistemic Reparations Global Working Group Project Lead, Jennifer Lackey (Professor of Philosophy and Law (courtesy) & Director, Northwestern Prison Education Program) will moderate a panel discussion with Senator Mary Jane McCallum and Photo Laureate of Toronto, Nadya Kwandibens on “Storytelling and Epistemic Reparations”. 

Join us for a lively interactive discussion. Stay afterwards and check out the latest exhibit at Qaumajuc, Inuit Sanaugangit – Art Across Time!

Where: Qaumajuc-WAG, Ilipvik Learning Steps
When: 6-7pm, Friday, Sept 15, 2023
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Nadya Kwandibens is Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) from the Animakee Wa Zhing #37 First Nation in northwestern Ontario. She is an award winning portrait and events photographer, Canon Ambassador, and the current Photo Laureate for the City of Toronto. In 2008 she founded Red Works Photography. Red Works is a dynamic photography company empowering contemporary Indigenous lifestyles and cultures through photographic essays, features, and portraits. She currently resides in Tkarón:to on Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Mississauga of the Credit River & Dish With One Spoon Territory.

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​Dr. Mary Jane McCallum is a citizen of the Barren Lands First Nation in Brochet, Manitoba. She attended the Guy Hill Residential School in The Pas for 11 years. She is an advocate for social justice who, over the course of her distinguished career, has provided dental care to First Nations communities across Manitoba. In addition to her professional endeavours, Dr. McCallum leads workshops and presentations in which she shares her personal experience as a residential school survivor in an effort to raise awareness and understanding.

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This event is generously supported by the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of Manitoba, and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Organized by Cameron Boult and the Department of Philosophy, BU

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The Epistemic Reparations Group examines how reparative work can encompass not only material restitution but also what we might call “epistemic reparations” — reparations that concern knowledge, knowing, or making known. A central aim is to work with partners to make spaces for victims of human rights violations to share their knowledge and experiences with others as a form of epistemically reparative work. Another aim is to investigate how epistemically reparative work can misfire, fall short, or otherwise create opportunities for reflection on how to improve.
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