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“Navigating Place” | Visiting Artist Talk with Artist in Residence Oscar Palacio

The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes Boston-based photographer Oscar Palacio as inaugural artist in residence for a two-week visit to the school. Through this residency, Palacio aims to extend his exploration of place and environment into the vibrant cultural fabric of Athens, GA, using the Oconee River as a lens to examine the interplay between the natural and the built environment. All are invited to hear from Palacio on his practice during…


Rebecca Nagle, “By the Fire We Carry"

The  In conjunction with the Georgia Museum of Art's exhibition “asinnajaq: Three Thousand,” join us for a conversation between visiting writer and journalist Rebecca Nagle and Kathryn Hill, the museum's associate curator of modern and contemporary art. Citizen of the Cherokee nation and author of “By the Fire We Carry,” Nagle is an award-winning advocate and writer focused on advancing Native rights, expanding…


Indigenous People’s Day: Tulio Viteri, the Director of International Relations for the Indigenous Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025, the Department of Anthropology is hosting a public screening of the film Helena from Sarayaku, followed by a Q&A with the director Eriberto Gualinga, an internationally recognized Indigenous filmmaker from the Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The full-length documentary depicts Sarayaku’s struggle against environmental degradation in their territory and how this struggle gave…


Emily Bowen Cohen: “Two Tribes: Real Life Stories of a Jewish Native American"

The Emory Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies ant the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies with support from programs and units across Emory’s campus invite you to attend a very special event. Emily Bowen Cohen is Jewish and a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Her award-winning graphic novel Two Tribes was published in 2023. Copies will be available at the event, which is free and open to the public. 


Perspectives on Tribal Stewardship at Warnell

Warnell Speaker Series - Coffee and Conversation on Thursdays Throughout the Semester - PERSPECTIVE ON TRIBAL STEWARDSHIP  Join guest speakers National Program Lead for Tribal Research Forest Service R & D Serra Hoagland and Assistant Professor of Rangeland, WIldlife and Fisheries management Texas A&M Ty Werdel for a discussion of Tribal Stewardship.


Archaeology, Sovereignty, and Community in Western North Carolina

Dr. Ben Steere is an Associate Professor and the Department Head of Anthropology and Sociology at Western Carolina University (WCU) in Cullowhee, North Carolina. He directed WCU’s Cherokee Studies Program from 2017-2022. His research and teaching are focused on the archaeology of the built environment in western North Carolina. In this guest lecture, Dr. Ben Steere discusses lessons learned from ongoing archival and archaeological research about…


Supporting Native Students in Higher Education: A Talk with Dr. Cori Bazemore-James

Join INAS for this exciting talk organized by doctoral candidate, Elise Blasingame. Dr. Bazemore-James (Seneca Nation) holds expertise in Student Affairs with a research focus on supporting Indigenous students, staff and faculty. She is a UGA alum of Industrial Organizational Psychology (MS) and Education, College Student Affairs (PhD). She currently leads the Graduate School Diversity Office at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and serves…


DeLisa Hawkes, on "Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and Black/Indigenous Solidarities"

In this talk, Dr. DeLisa D. Hawkes (University of Tennessee) will discuss how the under-examined writer Olivia Ward Bush-Banks reflects on Black and Indigenous solidarities in her early twentieth-century literary works and the value of teaching-in-place to thinking about the intersections between African American Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Free and open to the…


Saving the Last of the Saltwater Gullah Geechee People Located in the Hogg Hummock Community on Sapelo Island, GA.

UGA's Warnell Scholl of Forestry and Natural Resources invites you to the WARNELL SPEAKER SERIES featuring Maurice Baily, President and CEO of SOLO Maurice Bailey, a lifelong resident of Hog Hammock Community on Sapelo Island, will discuss Save Our Legacy Ourself (SOLO) and the community preservation projects led by the Gullah Geechee.  The event will be 3:00 PM on this Thursday, September 26 in Warnell Building 1, Room 304.  The Zoom…


Oscar Hokeah, Cherokee Novelist

Cherokee novelist and winner of this year's PEN Hemingway First Novel Prize, Oscar Hokeah will discuss his novel, Calling for a Blanket Dance. Hokeah is a regionalist Native American writer of literary fiction, interested in capturing intertribal, transnational, and multicultural aspects within two tribally specific communities: Tahlequah and Lawton, Oklahoma. He holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA),…
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