Indigenous de/criminalization’ focus of symposium – The Brock News

March 18, 2024

A free Brock University community symposium will discuss the impact of criminalization on Indigenous communities.

Hosted by the Decolonization Working Group of Brock’s President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity and Decolonization (PACHRED), the event takes place Wednesday, March 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Pond Inlet.

Indigenous scholar and lawyer Beverly Jacobs, Senior Advisor to the President on Indigenous Relations and Outreach at University of Windsor, will present the symposium keynote.

Jacobs, whose research focuses on Indigenous legal orders, Indigenous holistic health and Indigenous research methodologies, lives and practices law part time at her home community of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in southern Ontario.

Lyn Trudeau, Lecturer for Sociology as well as Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock, said Jacobs’ perspectives on decolonization of Eurocentric law will be “incredibly valuable” to community members and institutions seeking to engage in equity, diversity and inclusion dialogue and collaboration.