Day 1 - Thu Dec 5

11:00am - 12:00pm

Opening Keynotes


Venue: UC140

15 King's College Circle, University College, University of Toronto, Room 140

Event Type:

On-site

Art in a State – Wanda Nanibush

Genocide and the Limits of History: Notes from Gaza – Esmat Elhalaby

About the Artists

Wanda Nanibush
Wanda Nanibush
Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation, Canada. Based in Toronto, Nanibush is the founding director of aabaakwad, an international yearly gathering of over 80 Indigenous curators, writers and artists for talks and performances that last took place at Venice Biennale and is in Toronto Dec... Read more
Esmat Elhalaby
Esmat Elhalaby
Esmat Elhalaby is an Assistant Professor of Transnational History at the University of Toronto. Parting Gifts of Empire, his book on the intellectual history of decolonization, is forthcoming from the University of California Press next year.  Read more