Description:

Contemporary Native American art making is as an act of conversation with the past, construction of the present, and envisioning of the future. This symposium will host interdisciplinary discussions focusing on image, sound, text, and body in relation to historical trauma, sovereignty, and nation building.

Presented by the Colloquium on Indigeneity and Native American Studies in partnership with One Book One Northwestern, Block Museum, Office of the Provost, Center for the Writing Arts, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, International Program Development, Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and African American Studies

8:30 Breakfast and Registration

9:00 Panel 1: Word
Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo)
Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)
Kelly Wisecup

10:30 Break

10:45 Panel 2: Image
Tom Greyeyes (Navajo)
Julie Nagam (Anishinaabe/Métis)
Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha/Nde and Chicana)

12:15 Lunch

1:30 Panel 3: Sound
Jerod Tate (Chickasaw)
Tezozomoc (Xicano Nahuatl)
John Marquez (Chiricuaha)

3:00 Break

3:15 Panel 4: Body
Randy Reinholz (Choctaw)
Ernest Whiteman III (Northern Arapaho)
Adrienne Keene (Cherokee)

4:45 Break

5:00 Keynote: Simon Ortiz “History and Home: Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community”

6:30 Reception