[nativestudies-l] CONF: Indigenous Visions, Sept. 15-17

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

INDIGENOUS VISIONS: REDISCOVERING THE WORLD OF FRANZ BOAS

A Centennial Symposium at Yale, Sept. 15-17, 2011

One hundred years after his landmark treatise, scholars from across the 
disciplines will gather at Yale to rediscover Franz Boas as a major mind 
of the twentieth century. This centennial symposium brings together two 
dozen international thinkers to discuss the scientist, explorer, and 
public intellectual whose ideas shaped a global America.

Subjects include: W. E. B. Du Bois, William James, Margaret Mead; 
frontier encounters from Vancouver to Baffin Island; the relationships 
between indigenous people and anthropologists; and wide-ranging 
conversation on THE MIND OF PRIMITIVE MAN, Boas' landmark treatise on 
race, culture, and modern life.

The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders will 
present the meeting, co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center, the 
MacMillan Center, the Beinecke Library, and many more Yale 
organizations. [Register here:

www.yale.edu/glc/boas <http://www.yale.edu/glc/boas>

Speakers include: Elizabeth Alexander (Yale), America's inaugural poet 
in 2009, who will discuss the relationship of Franz Boas and Zora Neale 
Hurston and the origins of interdisciplinary race studies; David A. 
Hollinger (Berkeley), the recent president of the Organization of 
American Historians, who will talk about anthropologists, missionaries, 
and the man who shot Liberty Valance; and the language theorist Michael 
Silverstein (Chicago), who will discuss 1911 as an "annus mirabilis" in 
thought.

James Tully, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, 
Indigenous Governance and Philosophy at the University of Victoria -- 
who served as a special advisor to Canada's Royal Commission on 
Aboriginal Peoples and received the prestigious Killam Prize in 2010 for 
his contributions to Canadian public life -- will deliver the Stanley T. 
Woodward Lecture, "Diversity and Democracy After Boas," at 7 p.m., 
Friday, Sept. 16, in Luce Hall Auditorium (34 Hillhouse Avenue).

There will be wine and cheese before the lecture at 6 p.m.

The symposium begins with a reception at the Beinecke Library (121 Wall 
Street), Sept. 15 at 5:30 p.m. Dean of Yale College and Sterling 
Professor of History of Art Mary Miller will offer welcoming remarks. To 
reserve a place, sign up online at www.yale.edu/glc/boas 
<http://www.yale.edu/glc/boas>. Also online: a full list of talks and 
key readings, including the 1911 edition of /The Mind of Primitive Man/.

_THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
_Beinecke Library, 121 Wall St.

5:30 p.m. *Reception*

·Campus Welcome: Mary Miller, Dean of Yale College


_FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16_

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

8:00 - 9 a.m. Coffee and Registration, Luce Hall Common Room
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome Remarks, Jay Gitlin, Yale University
9:15 - 9:30 a.m. Conference Overview, Theodore Van Alst, Yale University

9:30 - 10:30 a.m. *Round Table: Boas in Centennial Perspective*

·Moderator: Lee D. Baker, Duke University

·Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University

·Regna Darnell, University of Western Ontario

·Julia E. Liss, Scripps College

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. *Panel 1: Encountering Difference*

·Moderator: Kathryn Marie Dudley, Yale University

·Audra Simpson, Columbia University, "Anticipating Boas: Lewis Henry 
Morgan's Love of 'Aptitude' and 'Hierarchy'"

·Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University, "Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Boas, 
and the Origins of Interdisciplinary Race Studies"

·Ryan Nicolson, University of Victoria, "Right or Wrong: Boas and Hunt's 
Work on the Social Organization of the Kwakwaka'wakw"

·María Eugenia Cotera, University of Michigan, "Life Among the Boasians: 
Ella Deloria and the 'Insider's' Dilemma"

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch, Luce Hall Common Room

1:30 - 3:30 p.m. *Panel 2: The Mind of Modernity*

·Moderator: Michael Warner, Yale University

·Regna Darnell, University of Western Ontario, "The Theory of Mind and 
the Relativity of Culture: Franz Boas as Theorist"

·John Stauffer, Harvard University, "Boas, Race, and 'Primitive Man' in 
Modern America"

·Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago, "Of Two Minds About Minding 
Language in Culture"

·Kerwin Lee Klein, University of California, Berkeley, "Language, 
Culture, and Philosophy in the American Century"

3:30 - 4 p.m. Coffee, Luce Hall Common Room

  4 - 6 p.m. *Panel 3: Rethinking Race*

·Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University

·Martha Hodes, New York University, "Franz Boas and the Problem of Skin 
Color in the Era of Jim Crow"

·Harry Liebersohn, University of Illinois, "From Berlin to New York: The 
German Sources of The Mind of Primitive Man"

·Elijah Anderson, Yale University, "W. E. B. Du Bois, Franz Boas, and 
the Role of Philadelphia in the Transformation of Race"

·Isaiah Wilner, Yale University, "Evolutions of Belonging: The Global 
Route to The Mind of Primitive Man, 1894--1911"

6 p.m. *Wine and Cheese*, Luce Hall Common Room

7 p.m. *Keynote: Stanley T. Woodward Lecture*

·James Tully, University of Victoria, "Diversity and Democracy After Boas"


_SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
_Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Coffee and Registration, Luce Hall Common Room

9 - 11 a.m. *Panel 4: The Global Frontier*

·Moderator John Mack Faragher, Yale University

·David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley, "Print the 
Legend Not the Fact? Anthropologists, Missionaries, and the Man Who Shot 
Liberty Valance"

·Alice Beck Kehoe, Marquette University, "Lucy Kramer and Felix Cohen: 
Bringing Boas into the Indian New Deal"

·Stephen J. Pitti, Yale University, "Manuel Gamio and the Anthropology 
of Mexican Immigration"

·Jürgen Langenkämper, Mindener Tageblatt, "A Prophet Hath No Honor in 
His Own Country: The Fate of Franz Boas, His German Protégés, and the 
Westphalian Town of Minden"

11 - 11:30 a.m. Coffee, Luce Hall Common Room

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. *Panel 5: Revitalizing Democracy*

·Moderator: Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University

·Dale A. Turner, Dartmouth College, "Boas and Contemporary Indigenous 
Politics"

·Alondra Nelson, Columbia University, "Boas from Below:  The Politics of 
Race and Genetics at the Lower Manhattan African Burial Ground Project"

·Michael E. Harkin, University of Wyoming, "What Would Franz Boas Have 
Thought of 9/11? The Limits of Negative Capability"

·Johnny Mack, University of Victoria, "A Totemic Encounter: A Primitive 
Account of Colonialism, Constitutionalism, and Nuu-chah-nulth Political 
Imperative"

1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch, Luce Hall Common Room

2:30 - 3:30 p.m. *Round Table: Boas in the 21st Century*

·Moderator: James C. Scott, Yale University

·Ned Blackhawk, Yale University

·Aaron Glass, Bard Graduate Center

·William W. Kelly, Yale University


Sponsors: Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, 
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and 
Abolition, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, Departments of 
Anthropology, English, and History, Committee on Canadian Studies, 
European Studies Council, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, 
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Center for 
Comparative Research, Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Ezra 
Stiles College, and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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