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NU EVENTS ARCHIVE
2016 - see also archived One Book events on the One Book website
April
University of California, Berkeley
“Legal Landscapes and Contracting Worlds in James Welch's Fools Crow”
April 19, 5:00 PM
University Hall 201
Co-sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English, the Department of History,
One Book, One Northwestern, the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies,
the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, and the Mellon Dance Initiative
March
Thursday, March 31
An evening of short films by Native American women directors.
The evening will be curated by Ernest Whiteman III, one of the panelists for Creating Nations: Past, Present, and Future on Friday, April 1. There will be a reception at 6 pm followed by the screening at 7 pm.
The Block Museum
Creating Nations: Past, Present, and Future
Friday, April 1, 2016
Symposium on contemporary Native American arts and culture
in relation to historical trauma, sovereignty, and nation building
The Block Museum
Maple Tree Tapping - Feb 8 - April 6
Contact Eli Suzukovich or One Book One Northwestern for more information.
Session 1 - Monday, Feb. 22
Session 2 - Wed., Feb. 24
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (Monday)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Wednesday)
Swift Hall, 104c
2029 Sheridan Rd.
We will explore the long standing tradition of maple sap harvesting in the Chicago Area and the Great Lakes Region's Native American Communities. This program will cover Native American culture and land management, urban forestry, and land based education of the NU campus. Participants will learn to harvest maple sap and will be able to make their own maple syrup at the end of the program. All are welcome!
Robin Kimmerer
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York
Founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
"The Honorable Harvest: Indigenous Knowledge for Biodiversity Conservation"
Friday, February 26, 2016, 4:00 pm
Annenberg G15
February, 2016
Kelly Wisecup
Department of English, NU
"Epidemics and Native American Literature: Rethinking Narratives of Disease and Disappearance"
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
12:00
University Hall Room 201
co-sponsored by Global Health Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of History
January, 2016
Panel on Historical Trauma
January 7, 2016, 3:00 pm
Discussant: Lindsay Chase Lansdale (Northwestern University)
Panelists:
Ramona Beltrán (University of Denver)
Megan Bang, Karina Walters (University of Washington)
Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart (University of New Mexico)
Technological Institute (Tech) room LR3
January 8 - Keynote Address, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Karina Walters (Indigenous Wellness Center, University of Washington)
Harris room 107
Sponosored by the Edith Kreeger Wolf Endowment in Weinberg College
2015 ____________________________________________________________________
November, 2015
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration
Saturday, November 21
Sponsored by Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA)
and Multicultural Student Affairs
Begins at the Alumni Center, 1800 Sheridan Rd.
See details here
Kelly Wisecup (NU)
Reimagining Writing
Fred Hoxie (IU)
How I Met Pretty Eagle at the Newberry Library
Thursday, November 12, 6:00-8:00 pm
Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago
co-sponsored by One Book One Northwestern
Chabraja Center for Historical Studies
NU English Department and American Studies Program
D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies
May, 2015
NU Legal Studies Lecture Series
Native Americans and the Law: Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Society
May 5 -David Nichol, Professor of History, Indiana State
May 14 - LindsayRobertson, Law Professor and the director of the University of Oklahoma’s Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy
May 17 (Sunday)
Inaugural Native and Indigenous Community Dinner
Guild Lounge, 6:00-8:00pm
RSVP to Noor.ali@northwestern.edu
Tuesday, May 5
David Nichols, Indiana State University
Charters of Sovereignty:
Treaties and Nation-Building in Native North America, 1790-1870
4:30-6:00 in the basement of 620 Lincoln St.
sponsored by The Center for Legal Studies and the American Studies Department
Tuesday, May 5
Denise Ferreira Da Silva and Andrea Smith
Settler Colonialism and Blackness, a Critical Ethnic Studies Workshop
Sponsored by CINAS, the Comparative Race and Diaspora Cluster
and the Center for African American History
Friday, April 24
Chadwick Allen
Just How Radical Were Native Poetics?
Friday, April 24, Haris Hall room 108, 2:00-3:15
part of a symposium titled
Radical Poetics: Archives, Forms, Social Movements
sponsored by
The Northwestern Poetry & Poetics Colloquium in association with Post45
Hosted by CINAS - graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and staff are welcome
Friday, April 3
Informal Coffee Hour with Philip Deloria
Friday, April 3, 9-11am
Crowe 5-138 (African American Studies Seminar Room)
Thursday, April 2
Philip Deloria
Thursday April 2, 5:30 pm, University Hall 201
sponsored by
Colloquium on Indigeneity and Native American Studies (CINAS), African American Studies Department, History Department, English Department, American Studies Program, TGS, and the Center for Legal Studies
March-April, various dates
Maple Sugaring at NU
(in partnership with the American Indian Center of Chicago)
Spring, 2015 as weather allows
Adopt a tree and collect the sap for syrup making
First training session - March 12, 4:00 pm in Swift 210
(additional training sessions may be available)
contact Eli Suzukovich (copperserpent@live.com) to RSVP for the training or for more information
2014 __________________________________________________________________________
November 22
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration
beginning at the Arch - public invited
Event supported by SESP Dean, WCAS Dean, ASG Wild Idea, and
Native American and Indigenous Students Alliance
November 12
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
5th Annual Dr. Carlos Montezuma Honorary Lecture.
Richard West
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Sponsors: Menominee Community Center of Chicago, CINAS
2013 __________________________________________________________________
November 9
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
4th Annual Dr. Carlos Montezuma Honorary Lecture.
Henrietta Mann
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Sponsors: BMO Harris, Menominee Community Center of Chicago
Mrs. Frances Hageman
Kellogg School of Management Dispute Resolution Research Center
SESP, NAISA, CINAS, WCAS
2010 ___________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - Winona LaDuke
Building a Green Economy:Indigenous Strategies for a Sustainable Future
Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is an internationally renowned activist working on sustainable development,climate change & environmental justice in Native America.
Sponsored by: American Indian Center of Chicago
Northwestern University: Program in Cognitive Studies of the Environment;
Program in Environmental Policy and Culture; Dean’s Office, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Friday, April 23, 2010 - Stephanie A. Fryberg
“From Stereotyping to Invisibility:
The Psychological Consequences of using American Indian Mascots”
University of Arizona Assistant Professor in Psychology and
Affiliate Faculty in American Indian Studies
Sponsored by Northwestern University American Indian Studies Committee
American Indian Center of Chicago.
One Book One Northwestern Announces book for 2015-16
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Faculty Publications:
Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki: Queen of the Woods - a novel by Simon Pokagon
new edition with essays by John Low and others (2011)
(Lecturer, 2011-12)
Stephanie Fryberg (University of Arizona) and Nicole Stephens (Kellogg). 2010. When the World is Colorblind, American Indians are invisible. Psychological Inquiry. 21: 115-119.
updated - 10-20-15