Keynote Address:
Philip Deloria, Director of the Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Friday, April 7, 5:00pm, Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall St.

Saturday, April 8, 8:30am-10:00am, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St., Room 211
Hemispheric Indigeneity: Resisting Boundaries

Chair/Comment: Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Yale University

Panelists:
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán- American Studies, Michigan State University
“ (De/Re)Tribe: Native Nationhood, Sovereignty, and Cherríe Moraga's Pan-Indigenous Protocols"

Alison Fields- American Studies, University of New Mexico
"New Mexico’s Cuarto Centenario: Memory and Representation"

Tina Majkowski (Oklahoma Kiowa)- Performance Studies, New York University
“Sonic Indigeneity: Alter/Native Music in the Americas”

Saturday, April 8, 10:30am-12:00pm, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St., Room 211
African and Indigenous in North America: Lives Intertwined

Chair/Comment: Ron Welburn (Gingaskin/Piscataway/Lenape/Cherokee), Professor of English and Director of Native American Indian Studies, University of Massachusetts- Amherst

Panelists:
Kimberly Solet (United Houma Nation, by marriage)- Urban Studies, University of New Orleans
" ‘So-called Indians’ Stand up and Fight: How a Jim Crow Suit Thrust a Louisiana School System into the Civil Rights Movement"

Paula Madden- Canadian Studies/Native Studies, Trent University
“Citizenship, Race and Identity”

Jesse Turner Schreier- History, University of California at Los Angeles
"Recognized as a Choctaw: Allotment, Race, and Identity in the Choctaw Nation, 1896-1907"

Kathleen Washburn- English, University of California at Los Angeles
"'Indian' Legibility and the Curious Case of Buffalo Child Long Lance"

Saturday, April 8, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St., Room 211
Asian America and Native America: Related Destinies

Chair/Comment:
Mary Ting Yi Lui, Assistant Professor of American Studies and History, Yale University

Panelists:
Paul Lai- English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“ Asian/American/Indian Literary Studies”

Ryan Burt- English, University of Washington
“ Internment, Relocation, Termination and ‘The entire One of us’: Critiquing U.S. Exceptionalism Through Comparative Analyses of Leslie Marmon Silko and Lawson Fusao Inada”

Elizabeth Guerrier- Social Anthropology, York University
“From ‘Civilization’ to ‘Americanization’: Social science, Education, and Assimilation”

Saturday, April 8, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St., Room 211
"Other" Means to Native Ends

Chair/Comment:
Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), Associate Professor of History and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panelists:
Jessica R. Metcalfe (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)- American Indian Studies, University of Arizona
“Contemporary Indigenous Haute Couture”

Brian Isaac Daniels- Anthropology/History, University of Pennsylvania
“Ethnographers and Cultural Education: The Case of Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, and the Nuuchahnulth”

Kevin J. White (Akwesasne Mohawk)- American Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo
"Understanding the Worldview of the Haudenosaunee by Examining Hewitt's Iroquois Cosmology Part I"

Daniel M. Johnson- History/Anthropology, McGill University
“Cultural Intersections in Indigenous Studies: The Responsibilities of Non-Indigenous Scholars"

Sunday, April 9, 8:30am-10:30am, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St., Room 211
Closing Roundtable/Breakfast: Native Studies and Ethnic/Area Studies

Chair: Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University

Inquiries should be sent to: angela.pulley@yale.edu