The Spokane river at sunset
April 23, 2021

Re-thinking Ourselves in a Time of Truth and Healing

Event Details

Date & Time

Friday, Apr 23, 2021 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM


Location

Zoom; Please register below.


Event Type & Tags

  • Academics
  • Diversity Inclusion
  • Global Impact

About This Event

Through presentations, conversations, and reflections, we will consider how invisible structures of an unjust past impact us today, specifically as they relate to the First Peoples of this land, and how we might work together for a more just present and future.

Special Lectures:

The Legacy of Christian Supremacy

Jeannine Hill Fletcher, PhD
A constructive theologian at Fordham University and author of The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, & Religious Diversity in America.

Disrupting Constructions of Western Knowledge and Coloniality

Samuel Torres (Mexica/Nahua), EdD
Director of Research and Programs at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and author of Beyond Colonizing Epistemicides: Toward a Decolonizing Framework for Indigenous Education [dissertation and forthcoming book].

 

Fr. Van Christoph Lecture series in association with the Office of Tribal Relations and the Office of a Pedagogy of Hope