PRESENTERS
(Re)Claiming, (Re)Naming, and (Re)Mapping: (Re)Learning Anishinaabemowin through Language, Space, and Place
Emma Cape (she/her/hers) is Anishinaabekwe and Lënapèxkwe by descent and is a first-year Master’s student in Native American Studies, studying on Patwin land at the University of California, Davis. She was born and raised on Kaw, Comanche, Osage and Pawnee land in what is now called Great Bend, Kansas. Emma spent the previous four years on Nonotuck land completing her undergraduate degree in English and American Studies with concentration in Native American Studies at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Her current research interests center on conceptions of “home” as shaped by and in relationship with blood memory, language revitalization and land back. Emma is also a published poet.
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Aia au i ʻaneʻi me ʻoukou/I Am Here With You: Relations of Hawaiian Language to Land
Sunaina Keonaona Kale (Kanaka Maoli) is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow based at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Native American Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current book project on reggae in Hawai'i focuses on Indigenous and Black relationality and formations of Kanaka Maoli, local, and global identities in the music. Her other research interests include the intersections of food sovereignty and music in Hawai'i. She is a former Charles Eastman Fellow at Dartmouth College (2020-2022) and received the Robert Walser and Susan McClary Fellowship from the Society for American Music (2019).
Maps to the Stars
Bryce Lewis-Smith (Potawatomi) is a graduate student studying the intersection of environmental justice, public policy, and tribal sovereignty at the University of Washington. His research examines the interconnectedness and momentum of global Indigenous resurgence movements and environmental governance to inform his own tribes flight out of colonialism. Drawing inspiration from networks of mycorrhizae, Lewis-Smith looks to constellations of coresistance as a means to nourish the children of the Seventh Fire.
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Centering Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Science and Stewardship
Phoebe Racine is a seafood systems scientist, with projects spanning quantitative marine agricultural ecology and consumer behavior. In her spare time, she like to be outside and work with her hands. She appreciates a good pun and like to make jokes. Phoebe is of Blackfeet descent and mixed European ancestry.
After the End, There is Still Life Worth Living: Trans Indigenous Speculation, Apocalyptic Relationalities, and the Language of Survival
Jordan J. Tudisco (they/them) is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a member of the Trans Research in Linguistics Lab (TRILL) led by Dr. Lal Zimman. In addition to an article titled ‘Queering the French Academie: Reclaiming Linguistic Authority for Trans and Non-Binary People’ published in TWPL, Jordan has contributions forthcoming in Gender and Language and Transgender Studies Quarterly.
They are working on their dissertation titled ‘Staking Our Claim: Transness, Self-Making, and Survival in Trans-Authored Narratives’ which centers the radical understandings of transness proposed by Black, Indigenous, Brown, and Asian trans writers and sees them as political community-building tools oriented towards joy, abolition, and liberation.
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Ki’yaqliw kalmiyaš, “our language is spun into being”: Listening to Chumash Poetic/Material Practices of Language, Land, and Life
Growing up along Montecito Creek, Chumash territory, we have experienced first hand the vibrant movement for Chumash cultural resurgence that continues to shape ourselves, the connections we make, and our academic research. Our participation within canoe/maritime culture, language revitalization, food systems is central to who we are as researchers, and we understand that the relatives and elders that raised us will always be our first introduction to political theory, history, and philosophy. Our ways of knowing and being are centered on the peoples and places that make us who we are, and we aspire to continue building Indigenous futures in Chumash homelands/waters within and beyond our research.
Chimaway Lopez is a graduate student in Native American Studies at University of California Davis.
Casmali Lopez will begin a graduate program in Mathematics at the University of Washington in Fall 2023.
Speaking Earth: The folk and the Psychopolitics of Coexistence
Jerry Pyrtuh (he/him) is a doctoral student of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and is associated with the Decolonial Praxis Collective. He is of Khasi and Naga mixed-tribal backgrounds. He is interested in thinking through political economies that complicate the psychical experience. His works attend to racialized and colonial caricatures of the mental life of 'tribal people' from the Northeastern borderlands of India. He draws from critical decolonial psychology to think through pressure points of structural-systemic powers that affect negotiations of identities, violences and conflicts across the personal, the intimate, and the communal.
His poems and articles have been published in Raiot.
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Heartfelt thanks to our 2023 AIIC Symposium co-sponsors:
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management; The Global Latinidades Project; UCSB Walter Capps Center; UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC); English Department’s American Cultures in a Global Context Center (ACGCC); Hull Professor and Chair of Women's Studies Program; American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group (AIIC RFG); English Department’s Literature and the Environment; The Blum Center ; UCSB Department of Environmental Studies; UCSB Department of Asian American Studies; UCSB Department of Chicana/o Studies; UCSB Department of English; UCSB Department of Feminist Studies; UCSB Department of Global Studies; UCSB Department of History; UCSB Department of Linguistics; UCSB Department of Religious Studies; UCSB Graduate Division; UCSB Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention; UCSB Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; UCSB Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office; UCSB Associated Students (AS); AS Food Bank
