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[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

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The Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and the Departments of History, Anthropology, and
Psychology are pleased to present "Transcending Disciplines, Transcending Cultures: Native American Studies Today." This lecture series will feature
five prominent scholars working at the cutting edge of contemporary Native American Studies. The lectures are open to the public and to all members of
the Columbia community. For more information, please see: http://www.music.columbia.edu/cecenter/NAST/.

The lectures, dates, and locations are:

"Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing the 19th-Century Cherokee South" - Tiya Miles
Thursday, September 21st
4:10 - 6:00 p.m.
754 Schermerhorn Extension - IRWAG Seminar Room

TIYA MILES is an Assistant Professor of American Culture and Afroamerican & African Studies at the University of Michigan. Her publications include Ties
That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (2005, University of California Press), and Crossing Waters, Crossing
Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, co-edited with Sharon P. Holland (2006, Duke University Press).


"Penobscot Indian Environmental Diplomacy as Critique: Protecting Territory and Natural Resources, 1725-2005" - Darren Ranco 
Thursday, October 5th 
4:10 - 6:00 p.m.
754 Schermerhorn Extension - IRWAG Seminar Room

DARREN RANCO is an Assistant Professor of Native American & Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College. Among his publications are "Ethics and
Regulation in American Indian Environments: Embracing Autonomy and the Environmental Citizen" in War and Border Crossings: Ethics When Cultures 
Clash, co-edited by Peter French and Jason Short Rowman and Littlefield,  2005 and "The Indian Ecologist and the Politics of Representation: 
Critiquing the Ecological Indian in the Age of Ecocide," in Perspectives on the Ecological Indian: Native Americans and the Environment, co-edited by Michael Harkin
and David Rich Lewis (in press).


"Going Native: The Racial and Cultural Politics of Being and Becoming Cherokee" - Circe Sturm 
Thursday, October 19th 
4:10 - 6:00 p.m. 
754 Schermerhorn Extension - IRWAG Seminar Room

CIRCE STURM is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Her first book is Blood Politics: Race, Culture and Identity and
the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, University of California Press, 2002.


"New England Indians In and Beyond the Nineteenth-Century Imagination" - Jean O'Brien 
Thursday, November 2nd 
4:10 - 6:00 p.m. 
754 Schermerhorn Extension - IRWAG Seminar Room

JEAN O''BRIEN is an Associate Professor of History & American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her publications include Dispossession by Degrees:
Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790, Cambridge University Press, 1997 and "'Vanishing' Indians in Nineteenth-Century New
England: Local Historians' Erasure of Still-Present Indian People" in New Perspectives on Native North America (forthcoming, University of Nebraska
Press). Her new book in progress is entitled First and Lasting: New England Indians In and Beyond 19th Century Local Imagination.


"Keeping Culture in Mind: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Therapeutic Integration in a Canadian First Nation Treatment Center" - Joseph Gone
Thursday, November 9th 
4:10 - 6:00 p.m. 
Lerner Hall, Room E569

JOSEPH GONE is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology & Native American Studies at the University of Michigan. His publications include:
"Mental health services for Native Americans in the 21st century United States" in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice (35)1, 10-18; "'As
if reviewing his life': Bull Lodge's Narrative and the Mediation of Self-Representation" in American Indian and Culture Research Journal (in
press). Works in progress include: "'We never was happy living like a Whiteman': Mental health disparities and the postcolonial predicament in
American Indian Communities" and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among ethnic minorities in the United States, with N. Pole and M. Kulkarni.