SCHEDULE

Land Back/Language Back
10th Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium
Friday, April 21 - Sunday, April 23, 2023
McCune Conference Center

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, HSSB 6th Floor

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All times listed are in Pacific Time.

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Friday April 21, 2023
McCune Conference Center (6th Floor HSSB)

3:30         On-site registration 


4:00   Land Acknowledgement

4:10   Welcome - Mia Lopez and the Chumash Family Singers


4:30   10th Anniversary - Looking Back and Look Forward 


4:45   Keynote:
                        Sweeney “Hawk” Windchief (Fort Peck Assiniboine)

        Associate Professor State University of Montana

            “Learning From Where the Buffalo Roam: Relationships to Land, Language 

                      and Culture in Contemporary Scholarship”

    

5:30    Reception -  McCune Conference Center



         Saturday, April 22 2023

  McCune Conference Center (6th Floor HSSB)      

8:00 On­site Registration and Breakfast Snacks
         

8:45 -9:00 Land Acknowledgement and Welcome to Symposium - Kendall

                        Housekeeping and Overview of the Day 


9:00-9:30 Undergraduate N’ED Talks
         Moderator - Cameran Bahnsen

9:30-12:00     Panel #1: Mobilizing Native Archives and Cartographies 

                        Kendall Lovely, Moderator

                        1) Refusal to record: Intentional Silences as a method of arcvhial justice for descendants of  

                             genocide survivors and victims - Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky (Virtual)

                        2)  Maps to the Stars - Bryce Lewis Smith

3)  Ki’yaqliw kalmiyaš- Casmali  Lopez & Chimaway Lopez (Virtual)

 10 Min Break

4)  (Re)Claiming, (Re)Naming, and (Re)Mapping: (Re)Learning Anishinaabemowin

      through Language, Space, and Place - Emma Cape

5)  Counter Mapping: The Land Speaks - Margaret McMurtrey 


12:00 -1:00 Announcements and Lunch 


1:00­ - 2:00    Keynote:  Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner (Payómkawichum, Kuupangaxwichem)  

Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

“The Archive is an Acorn Granary: Intergenerational Caretaking of Indigenous Knowledge”


2:00 - 3:15       Panel #2 - Chumash Community Panel

                 

3:15 ­3:30  Break 

3:30 ­4:45 Panel #3 – Rematriation: Land Protectors
                        Margaret McMurtrey, Moderator

                         1) Land Back: Plant Relatives- Cameran Bahnsen, Terra Wallin, 

            Richie Montes Lemus and Lily Melendez

                         2) Sogorea Te’ Land Trust - Deja Goud, Corrina Gould, Cheyenne Zepeda (Virtual)

        3) UCSB Mauna Kea Protectors


5:00- 7:00 PM - Community Dinner at AIIC/AIIS Center- Bldg 434 Room 107



        Sunday,  April 23rd, 2023

McCune Conference Center (6th Floor HSSB)

8:30 AM       Breakfast Snacks 

9:00 AM       Brief Welcome, Housekeeping and Overview of the Day 

9:15­ 10:00  Panel #4 - Indigenous Languages in Resistance: Towards a Politics of Survival
                        Maisnam Arnapal, Moderator

        1) Speaking Earth: The folk and the Psychopolitics of Coexistence- Jerry Lucius (Virtual)

        2) After the End, There is Still Life Worth Living: Trans Indigenous Speculation, Apocalyptic   

                              Relationalities, and the Language of Survival - Jordan Tudisco         

10:00­-11:00 Panel #5 - Sovereignty Through Land Stewardship
                        Nākoa Farrant, Moderator

                       1) Indigenous Energy Sovereignty- Marissa Sisk

                        2) Centering Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Science and Stewardship - Phoebe Racine

                        3) From Colonial Plantations to Indigenous Food Systems in Hawaiʻi - Nākoa Farrant

11:00-11:15 Morning Break  

11:15-­12:30 Keynote Panel: “Governmateriality and Indigenous Religions: Fraught Categories, 

                        Failed Technologies and Novel Methods

                       1) Global Connections, Local Issues- Greg Johnson 

                       2) Land Back / Language Back / Religion Back?- Bjørn Ola Tafjord

                       3) Sakha oiuun: Embodying Shamanism and Primitivism at the American Museum of Natural History- 

                             Liudmila Nikanorova

                       4) Graphic Novel as Method: Animating Naga Repatriation - Arkotong Longkumer

12:30-­1:15 Lunch Break  

1:15­-2:15 Keynote: Beth Rose Middleton Manning (Afro-Carribbean, Eastern European)

        Professor, University of California Davis

        “Looking Upstream: Restoring Rivers and Homelands”

2:15-3:00         Panel #6 Interconnectedness of Indigenous Languages and Land­

                        Sylvia Faichney, Moderator

                        1) Language and Land Back Journeys, Aia au i ʻaneʻi me ʻoukou-Sunaina Kale (Virtual)

                        2) Everything Everywhere All at Once and Back Again-Mia Lopez

3:00-­ 3:30 Closing: Conference Wrap-­up – Conference Planning Committee



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