Storytelling, Resistance and Love: Notes from Alberta
- Date
- January 18, 2024
- Time
- 12:00 PM EST - 1:00 PM EST
- Location
- POD-457 | Lunch will be provided
- Open To
- Lincoln Alexander School of Law Community
Law provides a venue for telling stories about a place. It can reify dominant narratives or it can challenge them. A dominant narrative of Alberta is one of stultifying, unvarying conservatism, symbolized by a cowboy, a roughneck or a farmer who, invariably, drives a large truck. It is male, white and Christian.
And yet, this narrative has never accurately represented the many peoples who have called, and do call, the territory now known as Alberta, home. By drawing together historical and contemporary examples of how litigation has been used to trouble the dominant narrative of who Albertans are, this talk will reflect on how the storytelling power of litigation can be used as a tool of resistance, but also an act of love.
Speaker
Anna Lund is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Law. She researches and teaches in the areas of bankruptcy and insolvency, debtor creditor law, civil procedure, access to justice, and housing. Dr Lund's current research interests include mortgage enforcement proceedings, insolvency law, and non-standard legal forms (e.g. cooperatives and non-profit organizations). Her book Trustees at Work: Financial Pressures, Emotional Labour, and Canadian Bankruptcy Law was published in December 2019 by the University of British Columbia Press.
Dr. Lund continues to practice on a pro bono basis through the Edmonton Community Legal Centre and the Court of Queen's Bench Amicus Program. She serves on the Canadian Bar Association (Alberta Branch)'s Access to Justice Committee, as well as on the editorial board of the Annual Review of Insolvency Law.
This event is part of the 2023/24 Lincoln Alexander Law Speaker Series.
The Lincoln Alexander Law Speaker Series brings together distinguished scholars, activists and practitioners to discuss today's most pressing legal issues. These sessions are interactive and offer the opportunity to engage with speakers on their scholarly projects in law. The speaker series creates a venue to present a body of work in a forum that is open to students, faculty, and staff.