2020 Brown Bag Series
- This talk focuses on artistic and literary activist work emerging from and constituting Indigenous protest movements in the Pacific. Activism constructs and depends on narratives—on stories. Specifically, I present the case of West Papua, using the
- This talk focuses on artistic and literary activist work emerging from and constituting Indigenous protest movements in the Pacific. Activism constructs and depends on narratives—on stories. Specifically, I present the case of West Papua, using the
- By Ivanna Sang Een YiÌı This talk compares the use of the collective voice by leading Diné/Navajo and Korean poets Luci Tapahonso and Kim Hyesun.ÌıCountering a narrative of the diminishment of oral traditions, the talk foregrounds theÌı
- All indigenousÌılanguages inÌıRussia are endangered toÌıdifferingÌıextents, and in most casesÌıtheir transmissionÌıfromÌıgeneration to another is damaged or interrupted.ÌıIndigenous language communities areÌı
- Bolivia’s agrarianÌısindicato, or labor union, system of communal governance represents a hybrid form of democracy which draws from several political traditions -- includingÌıEuropean syndicalist theory, Bolivia's 1953 Agrarian Reform, and