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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.