Author: zoesctodd
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Walrus Talks “We Desire a Better Country”
In March, 2017, I had the great honour of participating in the Walrus Talks National Tour: https://thewalrus.ca/canada150/ My talk is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhubUdR5OBg
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Public lecture — ETH, Zurich ‘So long, and thanks for all the fish: Navigating the impact of settler colonial violence and the Anthropocene on human-fish relations in Treaty Six Territory, Alberta, Canada’
I gave a talk at the invitation of the Architecture department at ETH in Zurich on November 10, 2016. It was entitled ‘So long, and thanks for all the fish: Navigating the impact of settler colonial violence and the Anthropocene on human-fish relations in Treaty Six Territory, Alberta, Canada’. You can watch it here: https://cast.switch.ch/vod/clips/1vy6tkcs45/streaming.html
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Interview: web exclusive on ‘political anger’ (Out in the Open, CBC)
Originally posted on speculative fish-ctions (Dr. Zoe Todd): I’m really honoured that Piya Chattopadhyay of Out in the Open on CBC interviewed me about my relationship to ‘political anger’ and expressing anger as an Indigenous feminist scholar working in Canada and the UK — here’s an edited version of the interview. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/political-anger-architects-1.3825756/web-exclusive-polite-no-more-1.3825965
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Interview on the Anthropocene with Caroline Picard at Bad At Sports
Originally posted on speculative fish-ctions (Dr. Zoe Todd): I’m really honoured to be featured on the Bad At Sports blog in this interview by Caroline Picard (who, by the way, reached out shortly after my “Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn” piece went viral and invited me to contribute an essay to a really fascinating…
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ANTH 5210F –Special Topics in Indigenous Studies: Decolonizing the Anthropocene
Originally posted on speculative fish-ctions (Dr. Zoe Todd): ? https://twitter.com/ZoeSTodd/status/755740945186955264 I’m teaching a fall term graduate seminar on ‘Decolonizing the Anthropocene’. The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) will be determining the terms and conditions (including determining the start date) of the Anthropocene this year. The term has become what anthropologist Beth Reddy calls a ‘charismatic mega-category’,…
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Daniels Public Lecture: Zoe Todd
Originally posted on speculative fish-ctions (Dr. Zoe Todd): This March I was very thrilled to give a public lecture at the Daniels School of Architecture at the University of Toronto. The talk was part of the Master of Visual Studies Proseminar Series organized generously by Charles Stankievech. Abstract (from the Youtube video): “”Fish pluralities, refraction…
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News
Very excited to share the news that, as of 01 July, I will be starting a preliminary tenure-track position as a lecturer in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. Also, I was very honoured to be invited to participate in the ‘World of Matter’ event at Concordia University in February 2015. You…
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Creating citizen spaces through Indigenous soundscapes
Last week Spacing Magazine kindly published this piece on decolonizing urban spaces through sound as part of the “Cities For People” initiative. http://spacing.ca/national/2014/10/01/creating-citizen-spaces-indigenous-soundscapes/
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On Scottish Independence – a Metis perspective
On Scottish Independence – a Metis perspective The above links to a piece recently published on ActiveHistory.ca.
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I am pursuing a PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. My work currently focuses on the relationships between people, fish and the environment in the Western Canadian Arctic in the past and present, in the context of environmental change. Using fishing as a lens, I employ a historical ethnographic…
Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy 