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The Music Education Colloquium Series of Engaged Research presents conversations on
Colonial Beginnings/Radical Transformations?
Dr. Lise Vaugeois, Lakehead University
“Colonialism and music education: Is there a way through?”
We will begin with a screening of I’m Not the Indian You Had in Mind, Dr. Thomas King, University of Guelph (retired) (National Screen Institute)
6:30 to 8 pm
Room 130, 80 Queen’s Park
Open to all students, faculty, music teachers and community members.
Biography:
Lise Vaugeois, PhD, is a musician, composer, scholar and activist, currently an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University. Her research analyzes colonialism and how it has marked the development of music education in Canada to establish hierarchies of who counts as “fully human.” She is interested in creating spaces in which educators and students can explore social and political issues together with questions of cultural production, community development and broader struggles for social and economic justice.
During the first part of her presentation she will offer an analysis of the colonial foundations of Toronto’s major music education institutions, noting the persistence of colonial structures and ideologies in the present. Following this, she will share what she has learned about the role of music in healing and strengthening resolve from people active in Indigenous struggles for justice and self-determination, taking up possible directions for change coming out of these, and other, movements.
She is looking forward to a lively exchange of ideas on where and how we might situate ourselves and our work as university-educated musicians.