Panel Abstracts

Breakout Session 1

Bodies
Confronting Being
Enacting Consciousness

Breakout Session 2

Spaces of Contestation
Time and Story

Breakout Session 3

Re-Sources
Reclamation

Breakout Session 4

Land Agents
Indigenizing Epistemologies

All Panel Abstracts (PDF)


Bodies
Curtin 118
Panel Chair: Deborah Wilk (UW-Whitewater)

Jinah Kim (Communication Studies / CSU Northridge)
“Unburied Dead and Watery Graves in the Pacific Theater”

Aimee Carrillo Rowe (Communication Studies / CSU Northridge)
“‘Ofrendas of the Flesh’: Xicana Art and the Cultural Production of an Indigenist Landbody”

Franklin K. R. Cline (English / UW-Milwaukee)
“American Cherokee” (a performance piece)


Confronting Being
Curtin 221
Panel Chair: Caroline Seymour-Jorn (UWM)

Noura Elwazani (Women’s Studies / Texas Woman’s University)
“Neo-Cartesianism, Ontological Ignorance, and (Un)Correlated Knowing and Being: An Andzalduan Perspective on Western Speculative Ontologies”

David Temin (Political Science / University of Minnesota)
“Against the Politics of Erasure: Founding Moments in Pan-Indigenous Political Discourse, 1969-1975”

Alice Kehoe (Anthropology, emerita / Marquette University)
“‘Indigeneity’ – Background to the Politically Correct Term”


Enacting Consciousness
Curtin 327
Panel Chair: Gloria Kim

Benjamin Campbell (Anthropology / UW-Milwaukee)
“Animal Body: San Hunting Practices and Trance Dancing as Indigeneity”

Maria Regina Firmino-Castillo (Anthropology & Transdisciplinary Studies / California Institute of Integral Studies & University of New Mexico)
“Indigenous Survivance through Performance: An Embodied and Telluric Ontological Praxis”

P. J. Brendese (Political Science / Johns Hopkins)
“Environmental Racism, First Nations and Segregated Time”


Spaces of Contestation
Curtin 118
Panel Chair: Aneesh Aneesh (UWM)

Audra Mitchell (Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) and Zoe Todd (Carleton University)
“Earth Violence: Indigeneity and the Anthropocene”

Kerstin Reibold (Global Studies / University of Mannheim, Germany)
What Can Rawls Tell Us about Indigenous Land Rights?

Ashkan Rezvani (Urban Studies / UW-Milwaukee)
“From Qahvihkhanif (Coffeehouse) to Café: Westernization through Placelessness”


Time and Story
Curtin 221
Panel Chair: Jane Gallop (UWM)

Eva-Maria Müller (Literary and Cultural Studies / University of Giessen, Germany)
“Narrating the Mountainbody: Critical Consumptions in Travel Literature of the Alps and Rockies”

Diana Rose (Visual Studies / UC Santa Cruz)
“Enduring Time in Maya Practices of Renewal”

Naomi Greyser (Rhetoric and English / University of Iowa)
“Affective Geographies across Paper and Ink, Land and Body, Time and Space”


Re-Sources
Curtin 118
Panel Chair: Carolyn Eichner (UWM)

Jubin Cheruvelil (Anthropology / Michigan State University)
“Justice in Natural Places: Tribal Challenges in Natural Resources Sovereignty, Governance, and Management”

Nan Kim (History / UW-Milwaukee)
“Ruins of Global Militarism, Embodiment of Dissent: Gangjeong Village’s Culture of Peace and Life Movement”

Rachel Cypher (Anthropology / UC Santa Cruz)
“Belonging in the Pampas”


Reclamation
Curtin 109
Panel Chair: Rachel Buff (UWM)

Annemarie McLaren (History / Australian National University)
“Bounty, Barter or Bond? Material Transactions and Aboriginal-Colonial Relations in Early New South Wales”

Melinda Hinkson (History / Deakin University, Australia)
“Of Place and its Faultlines: A View from Walpiri County”


Land Agents
Curtin 118
Panel Chair: Kristin Pitt (UWM)

Stina Attebery (English / UC Riverside)
“‘Gas Masks as Medicine’: Toxic Landbodies in Indigenous Speculative Art”

Shanae Aurora Martinez (English / UW–Milwaukee)
“Intervening on Academic Tourism: Indigenous Narrative Agency in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians

Snežana Vuletić (Literary and Cultural Studies / The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Germany & University of Stockholm, Sweden)
“Indigenous Igbo Land and Stories of the Colonial Disruption in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart


Indigenizing Epistemologies
Curtin 109
Panel Chair: Ivan Ascher (UWM)

Lara Ghisleni (Anthropology / UW–Milwaukee
Landscape and (In)visibility in Archaeological Narratives of Transition and Rupture

Robert Geroux (Political Science / Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis [IUPUI])
“From Code to Colonized Body: Genomics, Biomial Health and the Native Subject”