August 5–6, 2022, Online & Free
Emmanuel College’s Centre for Religion and Its Contexts, Trinity–St. Paul's United Church, the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics of The Institute for Christian Studies and Broadview Magazine are hosting the third Christian Left Conference. This year's theme is "Creation, Land, and Indigeneity: Resistance on Turtle Island and Beyond."
Featured Keynote Speakers
Dan Longboat (August 5, 6 p.m. EDT); & Carmen Lansdowne and Jenny Te Paa-Daniel (August 6, 6 p.m. EDT).
Broadview Magazine Session
Guest-Edited Edition Conversation featuring Jocelyn Bell (editor) and the Rev. Murray Pruden (guest editor), and moderated by Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo (August 5, 4:15 p.m. EDT).
Conference Focus
Resistance to colonization and efforts in self-determination among Indigenous peoples across the globe are currently generating widespread and increasing awareness. The scope and urgency of these struggles for justice raise a number of questions for scholars, activists, and community members. How are Indigenous histories, traditions of storytelling, and ways of knowing challenging dominant Eurocentric narratives, epistemologies, and ways of thinking? How is the category of “Indigeneity” appealed to across the diversity of global efforts in decolonization, and how does this category function in the processes of identity construction? What is the significance of land among Indigenous resistance movements, as the subject not only of political and legal disputes but of historical and theological narratives? How are the historical, theological and biblical-hermeneutical developments of the Christian Left interrelated with Indigenous resistance, and how can the struggles of both contexts become mutually informing?
Visit the conference's web page for full details, schedule and participant biographies: uoft.me/ChristianLeftConference
Questions about the conference? Email ec.events@utoronto.ca