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Land Back/Language Back
10th Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium
Friday, April 21 - Sunday, April 23, 2023
McCune Conference Center
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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Zoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87146095700
All times listed are in Pacific Time.
All times listed are in Pacific Time.
Please note that our schedule is subject to change, so check back for updates.
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
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