This Emerging Scholars Program is organized by the American & New England Studies Program and is sponsored by Boston University Diversity & Inclusion and the College of Arts & Sciences
A One-Day Symposium at Boston University
May 4, 2023 / 10am-5pm
Metcalf Trustee Center Ballroom | One Silber Way, Rm 922 or Live Stream via Zoom
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Indigenous artists, writers, activists, and scholars working in a variety of fields, periods, and across media, have called for a reevaluation of traditional Western epistemologies that privilege textual evidence as the only reliable resource for creating historical narratives. This one-day symposium showcases scholars whose work engages Indigenous modes of knowledge production and might incorporate textual archives but also artifacts, oral traditions, and non-alphabetic material texts. Relatedly, it aims to further reflection and discussion among attendees upon the methods, resources, and aesthetic practices we use to tell stories about the past.
The symposium will begin with a welcome from jessie little doe baird (Mashpee Wampanoag), Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project Co Founder and Lead Linguist.
Participants
Johannah Bird (Peguis First Nation), McMaster University
Clementine Bordeaux (Sicangu Oglala Lakota), UC-Los Angeles
Marissa Carmi (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin), UNC-Chapel Hill
Chanel Clarke (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Waikato, Ngāti Porou), Te Whare Wānanga o wanuiārangi, NZ
David Dry (Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma), UNC-Chapel Hill
Jessica Locklear (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina), Emory University
Melanie Puka Bean (Atafu, Fakaofo – Tokelau, Sāleimoa, Faleasiu – Sāmoa), Louisiana State University
Jorge Ramirez-Lopez (Sii’cha’anja/Triqui), Dartmouth College
Respondent
Philip J. Deloria (Dakota), Harvard University
Metcalf Trustee Center Ballroom | One Silber Way, Rm 922 or Live Stream via Zoom
Registration Required
This Emerging Scholars Program is organized by the American & New England Studies Program and is sponsored by Boston University Diversity & Inclusion and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Inquiries: Prof. Joseph Rezek, Director, American & New England Studies Program: jrezek@bu.edu
This Emerging Scholars Program is organized by the American & New England Studies Program and is sponsored by Boston University Diversity & Inclusion and the College of Arts & Sciences. With assistance from ATW Research + Consulting.
