Decolonizing Settler Colonialism

Decolonizing Settler Colonialism: “Kill the settler in him and save the man”

A talk by Lorenzo Veracini
Associate Professor, History and Politics
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Editor-in-Chief, Settler Colonial Studies

Thursday, March 16, 4 p.m.
BIOL 106, Biology Building

In 1892, Capt. Richard H. Pratt famously proclaimed: “kill the Indian in him and save the man.” In the spirit of international reconciliation, this talk revises the phrase by removing it from its former context of Indigenous cultural genocide. Instead, it calls upon us all to: “kill the settler in him and save the man,” or to decolonize our hearts and minds.
Settler Colonial Studies, applied as interpretative framework, has recently been the object of sustained critique. This state of the field talk will present a rejoinder to this criticism and then reflect upon the uses of Settler Colonial Studies to further decolonizing agendas.

For more information contact Maurice Jr. Labelle

Sponsors: Departments of History, English, Sociology, Indigenous Studies, and Psychology, the Office of the Vice-Dean Academic and the Office Associate Dean of Aboriginal Affairs (College of Arts and Science), Humanities Research Unit and St. Thomas More College.