DeniseÌýFerreira da Silva
- Director and Professor, University of British Columbia’s Social Justice Institute
Denise Ferreira da SilvaÌýis director and professor at the University of British Columbia’s Social Justice Institute (GRSJ) and a 2019 Wall Scholar. Her academic and artistic works address the ethico-political challenges of the global present. She is the author ofÌýToward a Global Idea of RaceÌý(2007) andÌýA Divida ImpagavelÌý(2019), and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) ofÌýRace, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime(2013) Her artistic workÌýincludes the films Serpent RainÌý(2016)andÌý4Waters-Deep ImplicancyÌý(2018),Ìýin collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational art practicesÌýPoethical Readings and Sensing Salon,Ìýin collaboration with Valentina Desideri.She lives and works on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam (xÊ·məθkÊ·É™yÌ“É™m) people.