Name: ATTACKED By Indigenous Activists: Frances Widdowson Speaks Out
Uploaded: 2025-10-22T20:15:00+00:00
Duration: 47 min 37 s
Description: Frances Widdowson is a former professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary. She was attacked by indigenous activists during a Spectrum Street Epistemology session at the University of Winnipeg in Ma

Streamed on: Oct 22, 5:00 pm EDT

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Frances Widdowson is a former professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary. She was attacked by indigenous activists during a Spectrum Street Epistemology session at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba. She tells her story in this episode of Conversations with Peter Boghossian.

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Chapters
0:00 Frances attacked during Spectrum Street Epistemology exercise
9:58 How activists tried to forcibly remove Frances
15:55 University of Winnipeg should give land back
20:55 Indigenous mass graves
28:55 Parallels with Mia Hugh’s work
32:45 Asking questions is “harm”
37:18 What’s helped Peter with SSE
40:05 Peter going to Canada
44:06 Indigenous knowledge