New Feminist Research Lecture

Title: Quantum Materialisms: Bringing Time and Matter Together in a Feminist Future
Speaker: Dr. Rachel Loewen Walker (PhD)
Date: March 23, 2022
Time: 4 pm
Location: Goodspeed Theatre, Edwards School of Business (ESB 18) and online via Zoom (registration required)

Abstract
This talk extends a section of my recently published book, Queer and Deleuzian Temporalities: Toward a Living Present, to explore new feminist materialisms alongside various quantum musings. In particular, I explore the temporality of quantum materialism, not only as it reveals itself in the entanglement between science and feminism, but also in its echoes of Indigenous ways of knowing, experiential learning and other models of community knowledge mobilization. It is through these diffractive collaborations that I explore potential for the work of co-creative and decolonial projects which start from a place of entanglement, over and above opposition.

Speaker's Bio
Dr. Rachel Loewen Walker (PhD) is the Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights with the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan (USask), where her research focuses on gender, sexuality, temporality and social justice. Prior to this, she served as the executive director of OUTSaskatoon for nearly seven years, lending to her interest in increasing collaboration across non-profit, university, governmental and other spheres. She is a graduate of the College of Arts and Science, earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2006 and her Master of Arts degree in 2008 at USask.

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