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10th Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium
10th Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium
UC DAVIS INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (10 College Park, Davis, CA 95616)
The Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium at UC Davis, located on the lands of the Patwin-Wintun people, is one of the longest running Native American Studies conferences organized and operated by graduate students. Starting in 2011, the symposiums have included papers and presentations from NAS-related graduate students and upcoming student-scholars across and beyond the Americas, spanning themes of history and praxis to Indigenous futurity.
For our 10th Annual Graduate Symposium, we are centering discussions around Native American and Indigenous conceptualizations of (home)lands, paying particular attention to both the ways in which understandings of (home)land remain constant and deeply rooted to Creation Stories, while also moving and shifting in accordance with migration and removal, to continuously (re)imagine our futures. This symposium hopes to engage conversations around the significance of bringing these varied and expansive knowledges and (home)lands into conversation through transdisciplinary and holistic research-creation conducted with, by, and for (Atalay 2012) Indigenous communities.
Guiding questions for this year’s Symposium presentations include:
How do we think about the various and changing ways that our communities conceptualize (home)land? How do we conceptualize (home)land within the hemisphere?
How is (home)land expressed through the stories we tell, the art we create, the languages we speak, the people we engage with, etc.?
As scholars, how do we center (home)land and Indigenous ways of Knowing in our research? What is “land as pedagogy” (Simpson, 2014)?
In what ways does migration change our conceptions of (home)land? How does displacement affect our idea of what/where (home)land is?
Graduate students from all disciplines from universities nationally and worldwide are encouraged to participate in this transnational, transIndigenous (Allen 2012) dialogue. Undergraduate students are also highly encouraged to apply!
This conference will be held in person at UC Davis. Registration is free! Presentations should be 10-12 minutes in length (250-300 word abstracts). We highly encourage creative and multimedia presentation submissions. This can include but is not limited to: poems, song, dance, performance art, etc. Creative submissions can vary in length, up to 10 minutes. Examples: reading/presenting a series of poems, 1-2 short dance or song demonstrations, and so forth.
Possible areas of interest may include (but are not limited to):
Possible areas of interest may include (but are not limited to):
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