On Wednesday, March 15 at 12:30 p.m., Kim TallBear, professor of Native studies at the University of Alberta and this year’s Provost’s Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow, will deliver the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity: Beyond Inclusion and Reconciliation to Decolonization in Science Technology.

While Indigenous peoples are usually at the receiving end of the scientific gaze, this talk highlights Indigenous resistance to colonial research, specifically through a lens of decolonization—the restitution of “land and life”—that goes beyond the dominant “diversity and inclusion” approaches of the academy in the U.S. and Canada. It also discusses efforts to transform scientific research, technology use, and training in order to increase the benefit of science and technology for Indigenous peoples, as scientific research, technology development, and related policy interventions aimed at Indigenous populations have historically been structured by colonial world views that scientists and other researchers are often unaware they possess.

The lecture will be held at the Zellerbach Theatre in the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost.

Please register at https://upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2mCkHTpII727nAq.