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From听climate change, to听pipeline protests and听environmental justice movements, to conceptualizations of kinship with living and non-living beings, emerging scholarship from Indigenous Studies is broadening visions of how to听live in the twenty-first century.听

This keynote lecture and panel discussion features scholars whose work is pushing the boundaries of science and technology studies through questions such as, how have the biopolitics of settler societies foreclosed possible conceptions of family, health, and environmental resilience? How do Indigenous understandings of human-animal relations and human-land relations challenge existing systems of governance? And how are science and technology being used to limit or strengthen Native sovereignty under twenty-first century multiculturalism?

Poster art: The Indigenous Studies Program听would like to thank Elizabeth LaPens茅e, whose art (from听the 2017 video game,听) is featured in the event poster. She is Anishinaabe from Baawaating with relations at Bay Mills Indian Community and M茅tis. She is an Assistant Professor at听Michigan State University. Discover more about this award-winning artist on her .

This event is free and open to the public.

Keynote Lecture: "Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming:听#IdleNoMore, #BlackLivesMatter, and #NoDAPL"

In this lecture, Dr. Kim TallBear will听examine the caretaking of relations that she sees embodied in several recent social movements led by women, two-spirit, and queer people. #IdleNoMore, #NoDAPL, and #BlackLivesMatter are commonly understood as environmental and/or social justice/anti-racist movements that call settler-colonial states, including the US and Canada, to make good on their treaty promises or civil and human rights law, to live up to their supposed dreams of liberty and inclusion. Since 2012, Dr. TallBear has听watched these movements unfold. Looming large in her vision fed by the 24-hour news cycle and more importantly by friends and colleagues on the ground of those movements and on social media, is Indigenous and black women and queer people caretaking their peoples. In the case of Indigenous-led movements, she听also sees a caretaking of other-than-human kin, the land and water鈥攁ll our relations. In this moment of crisis鈥攏ew to some but ongoing for many鈥攊s an opportunity to unsettle the American Dream that brings violence to so many at home and abroad. Turning our redemptive attention away from empire to instead focus on caretaking relations defies a foundational settler-colonial narrative鈥攖hat nature/culture binary that puts humans at the top of a hierarchy of life, and white men at the top of that. American dreaming is rooted in a vision that cannot see bodies in mutually sustaining relation. It objectifies black and brown bodies, women鈥檚 bodies, land and water bodies, and many bodies on down its hierarchy. The usually white men at the top鈥攂e they clergy, statesmen, or scientists鈥攈ave long viewed it as their civilized prerogative to alternately exploit or steward life according to their animacy hierarchy. Their narratives script a particular structure of violence. This talk proposes instead another productive script.听

Dr. Kim TallBear听is Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and听Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment.听You can follow her research group at 听(or on Twitter @indigenous_sts).听She is the author of听Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science听(University of Minnesota Press, 2013), and has most recently turned her attention听to听address issues of decolonial and Indigenous sexualities. TallBear is author of听Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science听(2013).听Her recent work on decolonial sexualities builds on lessons learned with geneticists about how race categories get settled. Her next book addresses relationships between Euro-American settlement, nationalism, and monogamy.听She is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota. She tweets @KimTallBear.
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Panellists:

Jennifer Brown is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington and received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research draws on science & technology studies, environmental studies, and indigenous critical theory to examine听human responses to climate change in Southeast Alaska.听In the past, she worked as听a tribal health researcher for Southcentral Foundation in Anchorage, Alaska. She is a member of the K铆is Xadaay (Haida) and听the Ketchikan Indian community in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Rico Kleinstein Chenyek is an MD/PhD candidate in the Institute of Communications Research and the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.听Their research focuses on the politics of inclusion in U.S. medicine through a case study of the institutionalization of alternative medicine at the National Institutes of Health.听As a scholar of the social and cultural studies of science, medicine, and technology, they also draw on indigenous studies, Latina/o studies, and gender & women鈥檚 studies.

Kristen Simmons is a citizen of the Moapa Band of Southern Paiutes and a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her work engages energy projects in the Mojave Desert as part and parcel of the settler colonial project in the American West: white supremacist militia land battles, solar energy development, national security, and new New Age movements. Key to her work is unsettling treatments of indigenous political nations: in settler states, institutions, and disciplines.

Rosanna Dent听(moderator, organizer) is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and Classical Studies at 91社区. As a historian of science, she studies how Indigenous people and academic scientists have engaged one another in Brazil over the past sixty years. She uses feminist science studies to analyze field-based scholarship across the human sciences, including human genetics, anthropology, and public health. She grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania, a settler on Lenape land.听