[nativestudies-l] Native American Studies Lecture Series

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

Dear
colleagues:
I am
writing to announce the Native American Studies Lecture Series that will
be held at Wesleyan University this fall. The event is sponsored by
University Lectures administered by the Center for the Study of Public
Life, and the American Studies program.  

All
of the talks will be held at the Center for African American Studies at
the corner of High St. and Washington St/Rte 66 in Middletown, CT on the
Wesleyan University campus. The various dates are listed below each brief
bio provided here. 

The
series features: 
*Jean O’Brien (White Earth
Ojibwe), Professor of History and American Indian Studies at the
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, president of the Native American and
Indigenous Studies Association, and author of Dispossession by Degrees: Indian land and Identity in Natick Massachusetts,
1650-1790 (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and a new
book, Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence
in New England. (University of Minnesota Press,
2010);
**Dr. Jean O’Brien - Wednesday, September 15th
from 4:15-6pm
 

*Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone),
Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, and author
of Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early
American West (Harvard University Press, 2008) which won the 2007
Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians, along
with five other notable awards; and
**Dr. Ned Blackhawk - Thursday, October 28th from
4:15-6pm 


*Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Assistant
Professor of History and Literature and of Folklore and Mythology at
Harvard University, and author of The Common Pot: The Recovery of
Native Space in the Northeast (University of Minnesota Press 2008),
which focuses on the role of writing as a tool of social reconstruction
and land reclamation in the Native networks of the northeast.  
**Dr. Lisa Brooks -Thursday, November 18th from
4:15-6pm
I
will send individual announcements (with lecture titles) to the list serve
as each date approaches.  Please feel free to
contact me with any questions regarding the series.  The Center for
African American Studies has disability access. If you or someone you know
needs assistance, please contact me.


  

Sincerely, 
Kehaulani 

J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of American Studies
and Anthropology
Center for the Americas
255 High Street
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06459
860-685-3768
http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
http://www.indigenouspolitics.com/

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