UNSETTLING GENEALOGIES
A Forum on Pseudo Indians, Race-Shifting, Pretendians and Self-Indigenization in Media, Arts, Politics and the Academy
UPDATE (March 14, 2022): A new version of the flyer is posted above. The prior version contained a minor typographical error. The new version provides the correct name for April 15 session panelist Rick Saenz.
Please join Gordon Henry at Michigan State University for the First Annual Leslie Chair Conference on American Indian Literature, Art, and Social Justice.
The conference is titled “Unsettling Genealogies: A Forum on Pseudo Indians, Race-Shifting, Pretendians and Self-Indigenization in Media, Arts, Politics and the Academy.” Over a series of virtual sessions, experts will explore the phenomenon we know today as Pretendianism.
The first session kicks off Thursday, March 17, 2022, with opening remarks from George Cornell, Ben Barnes and Kim Tallbear. The conference concludes on April 15, 2022. Full schedule below!
Henry, a citizen of the White Earth Nation, serves as the inaugural Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in North American Indian and Indigenous Literary Studies at Michigan State University.
UNSETTLING GENEALOGIES
A Forum on Pseudo Indians, Race-Shifting, Pretendians and Self-Indigenization in Media, Arts, Politics and the Academy
All in Eastern Standard (Ojibwe) Time
MARCH 17 | 7:00 PM
UNMASKING PSEUDO INDIANS: OPENING REMARKS
GEORGE CORNELL, BEN BARNES, KIM TALLBEAR
MARCH 18 | 7:00 PM
THE ACADEMY AS FACTORY FOR SELF- INDIGENIZATION (BESHIG) TREVINO BRINGS PLENTY, HEATHER SYRETTE
MARCH 24 | 7:00 PM
COMMODIFYING NATIVE NARRATIVES
JACQUELINE KEELER, CEDAR SHERBERT
MARCH 25 | 7:00 PM
COMMODIFYING NATIVE IMAGES & CULTURE
TAHNEE GROWING THUNDER, AMERICA MEREDITH
MARCH 31 | 7:00 PM
DE-SOCIALIZING TRIBE, FAMILY & KINSHIP
LIANNA COSTANTINO, NOEL ALTAHA, DAVID LEWIS
APRIL 1 | 7:00 PM
THE ACADEMY AS FACTORY FOR SELF- INDIGENIZATION (NIIZH)
JOE CANDILLO, SANDI WEMIGWASE
APRIL 15 | 3:00 PM
RACE SHIFTING, SELF-INDIGENIZATION
VICTORIA GRIEVE-WILLIAMS, DARRYL LEROUX, LAURA JUNKA-AIKIO, RICK SAENZ