3/19: Assassins, Nominations, Movies

 THE BRICK WALL YOU CANNOT SEE: ON THE LIMITS OF KNOWING FOR ANTI-RACIST FUTURES 

WHEN: TODAY March 19, 2018, 10-11 a.m.
WHERE: Burnside 426

A talk by Prof. Kate D. Derickson from the Department of Geography, Environment & Society at the University of Minnesota. "The often unstated presumption of scholarship that seeks to advance decolonial, environmentally just and anti-racist projects is that forms of new knowledge ought to be generated in order to contribute to those projects.  In this talk, I question that presumption.  I engage Lorraine Code's concept of "ecological thinking," Kristie Dotson's work on "epistemic back grounding," Donna Haraway's work on "response-ability" and Katherine McKittrick's piece "Mathematics Black Life" to argue that how we go about knowing is as important for anti-racist futures as what we ultimately know. Informed by 10 years of collaborations with community-based organizations and social movements, I argue for a processual conception of anti-racist and decolonial knowledges that are attentive to the social relations engendered by acts of knowing and conclude that we ought not seek to know revolutionary and anti-racist things, but rather know in anti-racist and revolutionary ways."
 

 MAPATHON TWO: OMG MCGILL AND SALU MAP KHAIPUR 
WHEN: Tues, 20 March, 6-9pm
WHERE: GIC room 511, Burnside Hall

OMG McGill is all students, profs, staff, and people of the world interested in open mapping for humanitarian purposes! (Open mapping is mapmaking online using freely-accessible data). They will be hosting a mapathon in collaboration with Shah Abdul Latif University in Pakistan on March 20 from 6-9 PM. Mappers will be using open satellite imagery and mapping online with OpenStreetMap to help update the map of Khairpur, Pakistan. This information will be used by SALU students to empower residents in their demands for infrastructure improvements in their community. No previous mapping experience is necessary, and all majors and degree levels are welcome! As per their ~identity~ as a campus group, there will be lots of delicious pizza for all attendees 🍕🍕Check out the event on Facebook!

 THE NATURE OF BORDER CONTROL : WALLS, LEGAL WAIVERS, AND THE PROLIFERATION OF INSECURITIES FOR MULTISPECIES COMMUNITIES IN THE US MEXICO BORDERLANDS 

WHEN: March 20, 2018, 10-11 a.m.
WHERE: Thomson House Ball Room

A talk by Prof. Juanita Sundberg from the Department of Geography at University of British Columbia. "Boundary making and enforcement are more-than-human processes involving the often violent (re)configuration of interspecies relations. Indeed, I argue, boundary enforcement operations are mechanisms of multispecies worlding, practices that organize the world through onto-epistemological and material separations, distinctions, exclusions, and exceptions. This presentation examines the multispecies dimensions of the current boundary enforcement regime, which, according to Donald Trump, is committed to "complete operational control" of the border. Of particular importance are the legal waivers used by the Department of Homeland Security to build border infrastructure while avoiding legislation designed to regulate federal projects and govern relations with non-human worlds. My objective is to highlight the implications for intimately connected multispecies communities in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, which are made up of people, but also non-human animals, plants, and other beings living in relation to geologic and climatic processes." You can find more information on the Sustainability Research Symposium here.

 PLANET EARTH II VIEWING PARTY 
MUGS is hosting a Planet Earth II viewing event this Thursday. You can check out the trailer here. Come join us for snacks, a movie, and good times.  Donations will go to the undergraduate geography journal FieldNotes. 

 CAMPUS CROPS 
Campus Crops is a collective garden at McGill located behind the School of Environment on University. The goal is to allow all members of the McGill community the opportunity to learn and practice urban agriculture in a hands-on way. This month they're hosting two intro events: the first is a garden planning session (register here, and the second is a seeding session (register here). For regular updates on future events and the garden schedule, you can join their Facebook group.
 

 BRANCHES VOLUME 7 LAUNCH
WHEN: April 6th
WHERE: Leacock B-12

The time has come to celebrate the launch of the 7th issue of Branches! Come by the Arts Lounge and pick up a copy while enjoying some free drinks and sweet tunes, courtesy of the McGill Environment Students' Society! For more information, check out their FB event.