Northwestern Events Calendar

Feb
2
2023

CNAIR Guest Speaker: Dr Brian Burkhart, Prof of Philosophy, University of OK - "Thinking through the Land"

When: Thursday, February 2, 2023
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT

Where: Kresge Hall, 1-515, 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: none

Contact: Michaela Marchi   (312) 593-7649

Group: Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)

Category: Multicultural & Diversity, Academic

Description:

Please join us for a presentation with guest speaker, Dr Brian Burkhart, Professor of Philosophy from University of Oklahoma.

If you can't make it in person, join us via zoom, but please also register:  https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98701922059

Title: Thinking through the Land: An Indigenous Decolonial Framework for Engagement and Planning During Climate Chaos

Description: Indigenous thinking through the land has a decolonial force that provides a transformative framework for Tribal engagement and Indigenous planning in the context of climate chaos. In this talk, I will present a summary of the basic framework of thinking through the land and its decolonial force. Thinking through the land, where land is the ground of kinship, gives rise to grounded reflective and normative decision-making procedures, I will argue, that provide a transformative framework for Tribal engagement and Indigenous planning in the context of climate chaos. 

BIO: Dr. Burkhart is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and has taught at OU since 2018. Before that he was Director and Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at California State University, Northridge. His research specialization is in Native American and Indigenous philosophy, specifically Indigenous land-based conceptions of well-being and environmental ethics. His 2019 book, Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures, claims that land is key to both the operations of coloniality as well the anti-colonial power that grounds Indigenous liberation. Land as a material, conceptual, and ontological foundation for Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and valuing provides a framework for Indigenous environmental ethics that can also function as an anti-colonial force for sovereign Indigenous futures. His current book project, As Strong as the Land that Made You: Native American and Indigenous Philosophies of Well-Being through the Land extends the land-based methodologies into reflections on both environmental and individual health for Native people and Native Nations. Burkhart is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma with roots in the Jaybird Creek community of Northeastern Oklahoma as well as the Indian Wells community of the Navajo Nation in Arizona. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University.

This presentation will be immediately followed by a reception (same location) where you will have the opportunity to meet and chat with Dr Burkhart. 

Presentation: 3pm-4:30pm

Reception: 4:30-5:30pm

 

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