Denise Ferreira da Silva
Director and Professor, University of British Columbia’s Social Justice Institute

Denise Ferreira da Silva is 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 of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007) and A Divida Impagavel (2019), and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime(2013) Her artistic work includes the films Serpent Rain (2016)and 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018),Ìýin collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational art practices Poethical 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.