Schedule

Companion Symposium

Thursday February 20, 2020

The Body as ARchive

2020 AIIC Symposium

dedicated to Dr. Inés Talamantez

We welcome you to UCSB and acknowledge the traditional custodians, the Chumash people, of this place and all land upon which the University is located. We pay our respects to the Chumash Elders past, present and future for they hold the memories, the traditions, and the culture of this area, which has become a place of learning for people from all over the world.

Friday February 21 *

*note change in location to MC Cune Conference Center, HSSB 6th floor

8:00-8:30 Sign In and Onsite Registration at McCune Conference Center HSSB 6060

Coffee and Breakfast snacks from 8:00 to 9:00 AM.

8:00-8:45 Breakfast for AISA Students with Deborah Miranda

9:00-9:15 Welcome to Symposium Housekeeping, Overview

9:15-10:30 Panel #1 “Embodied”

Bélgica Del Rio/UCB

Entering Anishinaabe Space and Ohlone Waterways:

The Performativities of Anishinaabe Water Songs in My Body

Marcelo Felipe Garzo Montalvo/UCB

Mitotiliztli ←→ Teochitontequiza: Danza Azteca as a Way of Knowing

Christina Thomas/UCD

“Dancing in the Footsteps of our Ancestors”: A Performance-Lecture

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:15 Panel #2 “Through the Body”

Alesha Claveria/UCSB

Embodied Histories: Two Case Studies in Casting for Native North American Drama

Haliehana Stepetin /UCD

Tattoos: Mapping the Indigenous Imaginary

Tannishtha Bhattacharjee/UCSB

‘Hidol Shukti’ and the identitarian anxiety in Sylheti bodies of India

Wendah P. Alvarez/UCD

One Eleven: Reclamation of Indigeneity, Ceremony and Sovereignty

Fallon Burner/UCB

Healing Through Language: Revitalization in the Wendat Confederacy

12:15-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:15 Dedication to Dr. Inés Talamantez- Julian Talamantez Brolaski,

1:15- 2:30 Round Table: Our Bodies, Our Archives

2:30-2:45 15 min Break

2:45 4:00 Speaker #1- Amy Ku'uleialona Stillman, University of Hawai’i

"Notes Toward Indigenizing Sound Studies: Thinking, for example,

about Soundscapes and Sonic Intimacies Archived in Indigenous Bodies"

Keynote sponsored by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music

4:00- 5:15 Speaker #2 Alaina Roberts,

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Revelatory Power of a Black and Native Life

Introduction and welcome by John Majewski, Dean of Humanities & Fine Arts

Opening Dinner Reception

MCCune Conference Center

5:15 -6:15 HSSB 6th Floor

American Indian and Indigenous Arts Gathering

&

Dessert Reception

Ballet Studio Theater

6:30-9:00 HSSB 1151

hosted by brooke smiley

Kio Griffth- Tin Foil

Jeike Mejier & Micheala Allen-Stolen Sisters

Alesha Claveria Native American Drama Reading

Julian Talamantez Brolaski- New Poets of Native Nations

Christina Thomas

Dance 194: Somatics and Social Justice, students share :

The Body as Movement for Change

brooke smiley- Meditations on Falling

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Saturday February 22

Saturday, Feb 22 Multi-Purpose Room (MPR), Student Resources Building (SRB)

Sign in and Registration (All day)

8:00 Onsite Registration (SRB MPR) and Breakfast Snacks (in AICRC)

8:00-8:40 Breakfast for AISA Students with Erich Fox Tree, Jean Fox Tree and Alaina Roberts

(Location to TBA)

8:40-8:45 Welcome to Symposium

8:45- 10:00 Undergraduate NED Talks – (8 to 10 speakers) 3 min talk; 3 min Q&A

10:00 10:15 Morning Break in AICRC

10:15 11:30 Speaker #3- Erich Fox Tree, Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

Seeing (Pan-) Native History Through Native Sign Languages

11:30-12:00 Chumash Welcome

12:00 12:45 Announcements and Lunch (AICRC)

12:45 -2:00 Speaker #4 Deborah Miranda,

Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia

Body As Archive(Tentative title)

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

Our Land, Our Body, Our Archive

Nakia Zavalla, Cultural Director, Santa Ynez Chumash

Kathy Morrison, Samala Language Instructor, Santa Ynez Chumash

Mia Lopez, Cultural Resources and Education Coordinator

Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation

Alicia Cordero, Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation

3:15 3:30 Break

3:30 3:45 Hinaikawaihiilei Keala and Christopher M. K. Baker

Call to Action from Our Relatives at Mauna Kea

3:45-5:00 Panel #4 - Indigenous and Native American Faculty at UCSB with Mae Hey

Amrah Salomón, English, AIIS, Visiting Assistant Professor

Unboundedness:

Indigenous descendant spatial excess beyond the archive and epistemological binaries

Daina Sanchez, Chicana/o Studies, Assistant Professor

The Children of Solaga: Ritual, Identity, and Transnationalism Among the Children of Indigenous Mexican Immigrants

brooke smiley, Theater and Dance, Lecturer

How Somatics is supporting Indigeneity in Higher Education

Mae Hey, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Critical Participation in Indian Country as a Scholar

5:00 -5:30- Rez Beats-Program Highlights

Ami Admire

Native Connections Coordinator, Indian Health Council, Inc., Valley Center, CA

Amrah Salomón

Visiting Assistant Professor, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, UCSB

5:30- 6:15 Dinner: Pizza, soda, fruit, dessert

6:15-8:45 Rez Beats, Film, Open Mic - Andrew Morrison, MFA

Check out the flyer on the HOME tab!!!

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Sunday February 23

Sunday, Feb 23rd MPR in SRB

Sign in and Registration (in AICRC) All day

8:00 am Breakfast Snacks ( AICRC )

8:00 -8:45 Breakfast for AISA Students with Lisa Hillman and Leaf Hilllman (location TBA)

8:50 am Welcome

9:00- 10:15 Panel #5 (MPR) “Whose Body”

Alejandro Echeverria/UCR

The Routes of Queerness in a Racially and Sexually Diverse Mexico

Carlos Tello Barreda/UCD

To be qhari: Ethnic and gender identity in Andean festival performance

Ana Tello/UCB

The Takanakuy: Performing Justice and Reconciliation in Cuzco, Peru

Brianna Simmons,UCR

Aesthetics of Solidarity and Possibility of Black Autonomous Resistance: An Exploration

10:15-10:30 Morning Break (AICRC)

10:30 -11:45 Panel #6 (MPR) Cosmologies & the Body

Katelyn Stiles/UCD

Salmon Relations”: Mapping Tlingit Cosmologies through Embodied Stories of Returning

Cuauhtemoc Quintero Lule/UCD

After the Tree Spoke: Yaqui Cosmologies and the Juan Banderas Revolution of 1825-1833

Wael Hegazy/UCSB

Sufi concept of Body

Lena Neuner/UCSB Alum

The tanoak tree that fed my ancestors - Retracing the steps of my people through the archive

that is Mother Nature

11:45-12:30 Lunch Break (45 min) (AICRC )

12:30-1:45 Keynote Speaker #5 Lisa R. Morehead-Hillman

Píkyav Field Institute Program Manager, Karuk Tribe-Department of Natural Resources

"nanivási vúr ikinayâach – my back is a ridge” - the embodiment of traditional knowledge

1:45-2:45 Closing Discussion - Our Bodies, Our Archives

2:45- 3:00 Closing, Conference Wrapup (MPR)

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Deborah A. Miranda (Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen and Chumash)

Deborah A. Miranda and Alaina E. Roberts. Deborah A. Miranda is an award-winning writer and poet and her poetry collection Indian Cartography won the Diane Decorah Award for First Book from the Native Writer’s Circle of the Americas. She is an enrolled member of the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation of California, and of Chumash and Jewish ancestry. Dr. Miranda is currently the Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English at Washington and Lee University where she teaches literature, creative writing, and composition.

Dr. Alaina E. Roberts

Alaina E. Roberts is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Roberts’ book manuscript I’ve Been Here All the While: Settler Colonialism and Black Reconstruction focuses on the white expansion onto Native land in Indian Territory. Her work connects events and discourses occurring in Indian Territory about belonging and Black and Native identity during the Reconstruction and Statehood Eras to the contemporary debates about nationhood and African American personhood occurring in the United States. Dr. Roberts is a UCSB alum and former American Indian Student Association (AISA) president (2010-2011).

Dr. Amy Ku'uleialona Stillman

Amy Ku'uleialona Stillman is a Professor at the University of Hawai’i (more coming soon...)

Dr. Erich Fox Tree

Erich Fox Tree is a Professor at Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada (more coming soon...)

Lisa R. Morehead-Hillman

Lisa R. Morehead-Hillman is the Píkyav Field Institute Program Manager Karuk Tribe, Department of Natural Resources, Orleans, CA (more coming soon)

PLEASE SAVE THE DATE!

UCSB AISA Presents:

AISA 50th Anniversary

POW WOW Celebration

April 25, 2020

&

AISA 7th Annual STANDS (Students Taking Action for Native Dreams and Success) Conference

April 24, 2020

For more information send email to ucsbaiic@gmail.com