FYI.
An International Conference on "Missing Women: Decolonization, Third Wave Feminisms and Indigenous People of Canada and Mexico" will be held August 14-17, 2008 in Regina, Saskatchewan. For more information and to register, visit our website
www.missingwomenreg ina.com.
Presented by Luther College in conjunction with the Women's Studies Department and the University of Regina.
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From the northern border city of Juárez, Chihuahua to the west and east coasts of Canada, Indigenous girls and women are at far higher risk to be kidnapped, sexually abused or raped, and murdered.
According to the Native Women's Association of Canada's Sisters in Spirit initiative, there are more than 500 missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. In Mexico, thousands of women have disappeared and hundreds of
women have been killed in Juárez since the early 1990s. This violence is now spreading throughout the country, leaving a trail of grief and trauma in its wake.
Deemed femicide, a phenomenon that has been described as "gender extermination" , the taking of Indigenous women reveals a violence spurred by sexualized racism thereby tracing the legacy of colonization. While the conference provides a forum to examine this violence, it also maps a path to justice.
The goals of the conference are the following:
• to raise public awareness about violence against indigenous women on a global context, but specifically in Canada and Mexico;
• to participate in the ongoing development of a critical analysis of systemic sexualized racism;
• to create a forum for multi-disciplinary organizations to meet and discuss both the theoretical and the grassroots activist work that needs to happen to stem this tide of violence;
• to
facilitate support and activist networks for family members of missing women.
Anticipated outcomes include:
* creating a documentary DVD of the conference for the purpose of secondary and post-secondary education
* the installation of a memorial art piece created by Adrian Stimson, as part of The Healing Gardens, First Nations University
* networking specific to interests of participants through facilitated affinity groups.
Speakers will discuss issues that are common to Indigenous women living in colonized countries, specifically patterns of violence, sexualized racism, the impact of residential schools, poverty, and the lack of access to education.
Confirmed Speakers:
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Lourdes Portillo (San Francisco)
From Mexico:
* Isabel Arvide, journalist and author
* Cynthia
Bejaranos, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University
* Rev. Kim Erno, Susanna Tores and others from ELCA Centre, Mexico City
* Paula Flores & Eva Arce from Ciudad Juarez, mothers of missing women
From Canada:
* Maria Campbell, author Half-Breed and public educator
* Amber Dean, editor, "Representations of Murdered and Missing Women" West Coast Line 53
* Bev Jacobs, President of Native Women's Association of Canada
* Laura Madison, curator of Lost Treasures Art Gallery
* Morningstar Mercredi, author of Warrior Women
* Ian Peach, Special Advisor, Office of the Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians
* Gwenda Yuzicappi, mother of Amber Redman, Standing Buffalo Reserve
with many other local panelists
Visit:
www.missingwomenreg ina.com for further information and registration
Dr. Darlene Juschka
Associate Professor, Women's Studies and Religious Studies
University of Regina,
Regina, SK
S4S 0A2
Darlene.Juschka@ uregina.ca
http://www.uregina. ca/arts/womens- studies/
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