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 YiÌý This talk compares the use of the collective voice by leading Diné/Navajo and Korean poets Luci Tapahonso and Kim Hyesun.ÌýCountering a narrative of the diminishment of oral traditions, the talk foregrounds theÌý
All indigenousÌýlanguages inÌýRussia are endangered toÌýdifferingÌýextents, and in most casesÌýtheir transmissionÌýfromÌýgeneration to another is damaged or interrupted.ÌýIndigenous language communities areÌý
Bolivia’s agrarianÌýsindicato, or labor union, system of communal governance represents a hybrid form of democracy which draws from several political traditions -- includingÌýEuropean syndicalist theory, Bolivia's 1953 Agrarian Reform, and