Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair lecture

Super Savages and Sovereign Traces A public lecture about indigenous graphic novels and comics, as part of a two-day visit to University of Calgary and Mount Royal University, in which Dr. Sinclair will be discussing indigenization of the university, his research on indigenous popular genres, and launching the book The Winter We Danced. For more information about all events, go to http://www.tiahouse.ca. TFDL Gallery Hall 1.30-3.30pm Launch and public talk, The Winter We Danced Loft 112, 535 8 Ave SE in Calgary’s East Village, 7pm-9pm Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair is Anishinaabe (St. Peter’s/Little Peguis) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. He is a regular commentator on Indigenous issues nationally on CTV, CBC, and APTN and internationally in The Guardian and Al-Jazeera America. His written work can be found in the pages of The Exile Edition of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama, newspapers like The Globe and Mail and The Winnipeg Free Press, and online with CBC Books: Canada Writes. Niigaan is the co-editor of the award-winning Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water (Highwater Press, 2011) Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories (Michigan State University Press, 2013) and The Winter We Danced: The Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement (Arbeiter Ring, 2014). He is also the Editorial Director of The Debwe Series with Portage and Main Press.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/niigaanwewidam-james-sinclair-lecture