American Indian and Indigenous Collective Archives - Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB

22 Apr

Symposium: 11th Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective Symposium: Indigenous Health and Well-being

The 11th Annual American Indian & Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium, Indigenous Health and Well-being, brings together individual papers, performances, and panels from across disciplines (humanities, fine arts, social sciences, ITEK, and STEM) within and outside of the academy, including practitioners and community members. This annual...

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14 Mar

10th Annual AIIC Symposium: Land Back/Language Back

In pondering the lush promise of living languages, worlds, waterways and lands, this symposium will share conversations on Indigenous praxis on the survival and continuance of living worlds linked to living words through relationships to the land. With this theme, participants can locate these conversations...

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28 Feb

9th Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium: “Imagining Indigenous Futurities”

The Ninth Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium, "Imagining Indigenous Futurities," is an interdisciplinary conference, featuring presentations from across the academy – including from the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and sciences – and from community members and practitioners beyond academic borders. This...

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09 Feb

AIIC 2021 8th Annual Symposium: Native Feminisms

REGISTER NOW The Eighth Annual AIIC Symposium, “Native Feminisms: Centering American Indian and Indigenous Land and People,” seeks to focus Native feminisms by privileging the knowledge of Native women, girls, trans, non-binary, and two spirit people. As Mishuana Goeman shows, drawing attention to embodied experience, positionality,...

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09 Dec

Living Democracy Talk: Land Grab U: Land-Grant Universities and Indigenous Peoples

Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which distributed public domain lands to raise funds for fledgling colleges across the nation. The creation story told around this event is that land-grant universities were...

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12 Feb

6th Annual AIIC RFG Symposium: Decolonizing Our Lives

The American Indian and Indigenous Collective IHC Research Focus Group's 2019 Symposium addresses and critically examines decolonization as a multi-layered project that is always-already in process. We, as Native and Indigenous peoples, and we as contemporary walkers upon these lands continue to participate (wittingly and...

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22 Feb

Research Focus Group Symposium: Cross-Currents: Navigating Translation

Please join the American Indian & Indigenous Collective (AIIC) and keynote speakers Dr. Cutcha Risling-Baldy and Dr. Donald Fixico for three days of panels, presentations and discussions exploring the cross-current of translation writ large for Native and Indigenous peoples. Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, Assistant Professor of...

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06 Mar

Native Foodways, Environmentalism, and Biocolonialism

Debra Harry (Gender, Race & Identity, University of Nevada, Reno) Andrea McComb Sanchez (Religious Studies, University of Arizona,Tuscon) Friday, March 6 , 2015 / 8:30 AM -5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Join keynote speakers, Debra Harry and Andrea McComb Sanchez for a lively discussion...

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23 May

Workshop on Historical Trauma

Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart (Psychiatry, University of New Mexico) Friday, May 23, 2014 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Registration is required for this workshop. Please register at http://tinyurl.com/reg-histtr-2014 to receive the preparatory readings. Under colonial occupation, Native communities across the Americas endured devastating...

19 Jun

American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group

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