Join us on September 18th at 11am ET to discuss Matt Hooley’s book, Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities (Duke UP 2024). The author will join us for the second hour of the conversation, with a short break in between the hours. 

We will focus on the Introduction and Chapter 1. Feel free, of course, to explore other chapters as well.

We’ll also discuss the works central to the selection:

     -  Art by George Morrison – available on this arts publication and this timeline

     -  History of the Ojibway People (1885) by William Whipple Warren – available on HathiTrust

Our interest in Hooley’s book is twofold: 1) rethinking environmentalism and modernism from indigenous perspectives; 2) as a primer to our upcoming roundtable on transnational archives for the Crossings Symposium. The chapter on Warren in particular speaks to long-standing debates on modernism’s relationship to ethnography and to the ethics of cultural interpretation that will be of interest to many.