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Towards a Decolonial Phenomenology of the Lifeworld
The Two Row Wampum is a 1613 treaty between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Dutch traders. Two rows of purple beads on a white background express a commitment to mutual respect and non-domination that has long since been betrayed by European colonizers. What would it take to reactivate the potentiality of the Two Row Wampum today, not as an agreement in the distant past but as an invitation to participate in building a lifeworld based on peace, friendship and respect? My reflections on this question are shaped by Anishinaabe legal scholar Aaron Mills’ account of the lifeworlds of law and Edmund Husserl’s late phenomenology of the lifeworld.
► This event is in-person. Join in person at the Centre for Ethics (Larkin Building room 200).
Lisa Guenther
Philosophy
Queen’s University
Fri, Mar 14, 2025
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
200 Larkin