Tag: Guest speaker


Lab Talk: "Ancient DNA for Archaeology in the Genomic Era"

Meet the speaker of the upcoming Lab Talk, "Ancient DNA for Archaeology in the Genomic Era" on Friday, Jan. 28 at 4:00 PM Eastern. Dr. Logan Kistler is a Curator and Research Anthropologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He is an environmental archaeologist whose research program uses ancient DNA and genomics to study the evolution of domestic plants and other human–environment interactions. Register at https…


Virtual Talk: "The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade in the Golden Age"

Dr. Mónica García Blizzard of Emory University will present her Virtual Talk: "The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade in the Golden Age" on zoom. Email rnavitsk@uga.edu for registration and zoom link. Presented by the Department of Theatre and Film Studies. 


Dr. Lee Hester, "Pretindians and Modern Culture"

The Institute of Native American Studies and the Department of Philosophy present a lecture by       Dr. Lee Hester  "Pretendians and Modern Culture:  A Rambling Native American Narrative on Cultural Imposters   Dr. Hester is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation and as a professor and Director of American Indian Studies at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, he is one of the leading Native…


Conference: Transnationalism and the Red Atlantic

Transnationalism and the Red Atlantic February 7-8, 2020 Recentering Atlantic world history on the Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, as Paul Gilroy recentered it around the African Diaspora in The Black Atlantic has taken a central place in Native American studies since 2010.  In this first major reassessment of the Red Atlantic in a decade, INAS brings together the leading scholars working in the area for an international…


Stacy Leeds' Talk Postponed. New Time and Date to follow.

Title: "CHEROKEE JUSTICE: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" Stacy Leeds is a former justice on the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. From 2011-2018, Leeds served as the dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law and was the first native woman to serve as dean of a law school in the United States. She is a recipient of the American Bar Association's Spirit of Excellence Award and an elected member of the American Law Institute. She is a former…


"Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears: The Unlearned Lessons of Populism Today." Chad Smith (Cherokee Nation)

"Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears: The Unlearned Lessons of Populism Today." Chad Smith, Former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Chad Smith looks at the rise of a hard-edged populism with Andrew Jackson, leading to Cherokee Removal from their homeland in Georgia and the Southeast.  He then will examine what that example tells us about our present situation in the United States. This event is sponsored by the Institute of…


A Reading by William S. Yellowrobe, Jr.

The Institute of Native American Studies invites you to join us for a reading by celebrated playwright William S. YellowRobe. He is presently an adjunct faculty member in the English Department at the University of Maine and a Faculty Affiliate of the Creative Writing Department at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. His books include; Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers: and Other Untold Stories, a collection of…


"Across and Through These Lands: Earthworks, Indigenous Identity, and Return"

Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature LeAnne Howe presents scholar and author Chadwick Allen for her annual American Indian Returnings (AIR) Talk.  This year's AIR Talk will take place on the Autumnal Equinox, Thursday, September 20th, at 4:15 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium at the Georgia Museum, 90 Carlton St, Athens, GA 30602: https://georgiamuseum.org/.     The title of his talk is "Across…


From Mashpee to Standing Rock: Reading William Apess in the 21st Century

Drew Lopenzina, professor of Early American and Native American Literatures at Old Dominion University will speak on "From Mashpee to Standing Rock: Reading William Apess in the 21st Century," focusing on Apess's activism.  Dr. Lopenzina is the author of Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period (2011) and Through an Indian's Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequout (2017).


What Is Native Pop?

Brent Learned is an award winning Native American artist, who draws, paints, and sculpts.  He was born and raised in Oklahoma and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes.  His works are in collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and the Oklahoma Governor’s Mansion, among many other venues.  His work has been shown extensively abroad, including in…
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