1:15PM

Registration & Refreshments 

1:30PM

Symposium Welcome and Land Acknowledgement

AIIC Symposium Planning Committee Members, Kendall Lovely (History) and Megan Baker (Bren School of Environmental Science)

2:00PM

UCSB Undergraduate Native Education Talks (N'Edx Talks)

Lena Hicks, "Thesis Research in Wetlands Space"

McKinley McPherson, "Bringing Higher Education Back Home"

Reese Raygoza, "Aotearoa Inspiration"

Olivia Dean Craig, "Cultural Burning"

3:00PM

University of California, Santa Barbara Faculty Spotlight

Kendall Lovely, Introducing Dr. Barnd and Dr. Jolivette as New Faculty

Conversation Moderated by Nachee Blu Barnd 

Daina Sanchez (UCSB, Chicana and Chicano Studies) will discuss her book The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging Across the U.S.-Mexico Border and Giovanni Batz, (UCSB, Chicana and Chicano Studies), will share with us his new book The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala

4:00PM

Roundtable: Indigenizing Higher Education for Native Communities 

a Conversation Between Margaret McMurtrey, Kendall Lovely, Marcus Mathias, Luther Richmond, and Vince La Pena

5:00PM

Keynote:

Natalie Avalos

introduction by Sylvia Faichney

6:00PM

Reception

8:00AM

Registration & Breakfast 

9:00AM

Symposium Welcome and Land Acknowledgement

AIIC Symposium Planning Committee Members, Damian Yazzie (Chicana and Chicano Studies) and Sylvia Faichney (History of Art and Architecture)

9:15AM

Higher Education Recruitment, Retention, and Success Stories of Native American and Indigenous Students at the University of Wyoming

Moderator: Reinette Curry, MSW 

Tyrel Mhyre, NAERCC Student Intern

Maya Molt, NAERCC Student Intern

Cynthia St. Clair, Native American Summer Institute (NASI) Student Intern

Darwin St. Clair, Co-Wyo Student Intern & Former NAERCC Student Intern

Daniel Cardenas, High Plains American Indian Research Institute (HPAIRI) Student Intern

15-min break

10:30AM

Place-Based Learning

Moderator: Megan Baker, (UCSB, Bren School)

Sangeeta Sarkar, “A Little Too Radical” – Settler Colonial Discomforts and Barriers to Land Return at Cal Poly Humboldt”

Karley Rojas, “Trauma-Informed Landscape Responsibility”

Delaney Schroeder-Echavarria, “Food Apartheid, Colonization, and Processed Junk: An Indigenous Cookbook to Build Our Youths Connection to Traditional Foodways”

TEK Class, AIISA “Three Sisters/Four Directions”

15-min break

12:00PM

Scalable Teaching: From Classrooms to Communities

Moderator: Sylvia Faichney

Kamanamaikalani Beamer, “The Pō'ai Ke Aloha 'Āina Project: Elevating Local and Global Sustainability Partnerships for a Resilient Future"

Nākoa Farrant, "'A'ohe pau ka 'ike i ka hālau ho'okahi"

brooke smiley  '"The Plains": Invisibilization of Homelands in Public School Education + Resources for Cultivating Safety in Being Seen"

1:00PM

Lunch break

2:15PM

Moment of Silence to honor Chumash Elder who recently pass over

230PM

Keynote:

Cutcha Risling Baldy

introduction by Miriam Hamburger

3:30 PM

15 minute break 

3:45PM

Language Revitalization

Moderator: Margaret McMurtrey

Fabián Pavón,”Re-membering mi lengua materna: A Xicanx Studies Revitalization Effort of the P’urhépecha Language”

Deborah Sanchez, "Sumīch Language Revitalization"

James Yee, "Barbareño Language Revitalization"

Marianne Mithun, "The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Language Revitalization"

Eric Campbell "The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Language Revitalization"

5:00PM

Closing Remarks

5:30PM

Community Dinner 

Join us for a community dinner at the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Center (Bldg 434 Room 107)

8:30AM

Breakfast & Registration

9:00AM

Welcome and Land Acknowledgement 

AIIC Symposium Planning Committee Members: McKinley McPherson and Alessandra Vidal Meza (Bren School of Environmental Science)

9:15AM

Advancing Native Inclusion in STEM

Moderator: Alessandra Vidal Meza

Featuring Presentations by Kaiju Morquecho, Rae Yee, Reina Gomez and Victoria Diaz

10:15AM

Keynote:

Amanda Tachine

Introduction by Kendall Lovely 

11:15AM

AJP (Academics for Justice in Palestine) Roundtable Discussion

Introduction by Kendall Lovely 

12:15PM

Lunch break

1:00PM

Native Films

Moderator: Kendall Lovely 

Emilia Kini, “Film Studies and Kānaka ʻŌiwi methodologies”

Catherine Scanlon,  with filmmakers Jonathan Coronado and Jade Ipiña, plus Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto and Marianne Parra (featured in the film), Screening of  quwa'

Reese Raygoza (filmmaker), screening “The Salt on Our Skin”

2:00PM

Indigeneity and Ideology

Moderator: Miriam Hamburger

Ben Olguin, “Abya Yala Ideologies: Indigenous Socialisms, Communisms, and Anarchisms in the Late 20th & Early 21st Centuries”

Carlos Cruz, “Comunalidad rooted in Indigenous Autonomy”

Diego Lazcano Avila, “Mexicayotl A Sensorial Tapestry Ceremonial Activism and Cultural Empowerment”

Chelsea Ríos Gómez, “Sabiduría del Campo: Reframing Scholarship through Vivencias Campesinas”

3:00PM

Workshop: Building Blocks for a Dream Syllabus 

During this workshop, participants will be asked to break up in several groups. Questions will be shared to generate a conversation about a dream syllabus that centers on Native Futures and Thrivance in Higher Education. We hope this will be a way to reflect on the symposium and will develop foundations for future learning and teaching. 

4:00PM

Closing Remarks