Denise Ferreira da Silva聽is director and professor at the University of British Columbia鈥檚 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聽Toward a Global Idea of Race聽(2007) and聽A Divida Impagavel聽(2019), and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of聽Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime(2013) Her artistic work聽includes the films Serpent Rain聽(2016)and聽4Waters-Deep Implicancy聽(2018),听in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational art practices聽Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon,听in collaboration with Valentina Desideri.She lives and works on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam (x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m) people.