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

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