2022 RLSC Colloquium - Resisting Settler Colonialism
The 2022 RLSC Colloquium - Resisting Settler Colonialism - will bring together organizers, legal practitioners and activist scholars to unpack the status of the United States as a settler colonialism state and explore the ways in which settler colonialism manifests itself in its laws, policies and practices. This Colloquium puts many different facets of settler colonialism in conversation with one another - panels will cover topics like Indigenous land defense, gentrification, migrant and refugee defense, Palestinian liberation and climate displacement.
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Please find an overview of the four panels below. The entire event will be held over Zoom remotely and is open to the public. More information on the event is available here.
Closed captioning as well as ASL and Spanish interpretation will be available.
This event was planned in collaboration with BALSA, the Center on Race and Inequality, CoLR, DALSA, Immigrant Rights Project, LSJP, NLG, OUTLaw, SALSA, SRP and WoCC, and with the support of more than 20 co-sponsoring student organizations. Thank you to all of our supporters!
Panel Overviews
Day 1 - February, 9th 2021
Panel 1 | 4:30 - 6:00 PM EST
What is Settler Colonialism? - Discuss the theoretical concept and history of settler colonialism generally, and the ways in which U.S. law and culture maintains settler colonialism.
Panel 2 | 6:30 - 8:00 PM EST
Landlessness, Displacement & Migration - Address the ways in which settler colonialism manifests as displacement, landlessness and exploitation of migrants. Panelists will address intersections of migration with criminalization and anti-carceral organizing, disability justice, and racial justice.
Day 2 - February, 10th 2021
Panel 3 | 4:30 - 6:00 PM EST
Reclaiming Decolonial Sovereignty - Discuss current fights for Indigenous sovereignty over lands with a large population of settlers and U.S. based advocacy in defense of indegenous people. Potential topics include: Resistance by the peoples indigenous to what is currently known as the United States, Canada and Mexico, and Palestinian liberation.
Panel 4 | 6:30 - 8:00 PM EST
Resisting Settler Colonialism in Occupied Lenapehoking (NYC) - Resistance to settler colonialism isn't a distant concept. This panel will hear from organizers, attorneys and organizations in the Lenapehoking territory engaged in resisting settler colonialism in all of its forms and give them an opportunity to discuss their work and how people can become engaged.