Tag: Guest speaker

Phillip Carroll Morgan (Choctaw/Chickasaw) will read from his work at UGA, October 13, 2022, 7:00 p.m. at UGA, location TBA.  Morgan is an award-winning author of four Chickasaw Press titles: Chickasaw Renaissance and Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors and Their Intellectual Legacy, and, co-author of Dynamic Chickasaw Women. Anompolichi: The Word Master, and his forthcoming, The Lost River, (2022) are both published by…

Chadwick Allen will overview his new book, Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts and discuss examples of how contemporary Indigenous communities are reengaging—and reimagining—ancient traditions of building large-scale earthworks. How do these post-Removal mounds make meaning for tribal citizens and broader audiences, especially when they are part of state-of-the-art public venues for Indigenous self-…

 

2022 Torrance Festival of Ideas (Apr 19-21) Activist Bonn Baudelaire will share their experience working with Navajo women (in AZ) through a recorded interview and be present for a live Q&A discussion. Several other panels will also be on topics relevant to your students and faculty. REGISTER HERE The annual Torrance Festival of Ideas is a free online educational…

1:50 pm-2:50 pm EST (12:50-1:50 pm CST) Wednesday April 6, Professor Fay Yarbrough, Associate Dean of Humanities at Rice University, will present “Women, Labor, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation,” co-hosted by UGA professors Ervan Garrison and Jim Wilson for the Homeland Returns series at UGA. Yarbrough will discuss Choctaw women’s roles in Choctaw society during the tumultuous nineteenth century, which included the removal of…

March 25 at 3pm join us for a discussion on a North Carolina Cherokee Community's Determination to Remain during the Trail of Tears. Meet at 221 LeConte Hall- event is free!! You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Mar 25, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlde6sqjsvH9U4uwQj0nG8Xw0sou0nM7DP

This presentation offers an opportunity to learn with the presenters as they cultivate profound relationships among native students, faculty, an organic rural farm Cooperative, and the land. The presenters highlight how indigenous communities land based praxis makes the revolution irresistible. This event is cosponsored by the Wilson Center for the Humanities and Arts the Mary Frances Early College of Education's Department and the Institute of…

Jerod Impichaachaaha-Tate, a Chickasaw Composer part of the "Homeland Returns" Series with Dr. Garrison, Department of Anthropology and Mr. Wilson, Department of English present a zoom talk on February 10th 2022, 11:00 am EST. zoom. Jerod Impichaachaaha-Tate is a classical composer, citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma and is dedicated to the development of American Indian classical composition. Tate was appointed 2021 Cultural…

Meet the speaker of the upcoming Lab Talk, "Ancient DNA for Archaeology in the Genomic Era" on Friday, Jan. 28 at 4:00 PM Eastern. Dr. Logan Kistler is a Curator and Research Anthropologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He is an environmental archaeologist whose research program uses ancient DNA and genomics to study the evolution of domestic plants and other human–environment interactions. Register at https…

Dr. Mónica García Blizzard of Emory University will present her Virtual Talk: "The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade in the Golden Age" on zoom. Email rnavitsk@uga.edu for registration and zoom link. Presented by the Department of Theatre and Film Studies.