Native American and Indigenous Conference at Bard College

We are pleased to announce that Bard College is holding a conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on Mahicantuck on October 12-14th, free for students! They will be exploring methods and experiences surrounding Indigenous studies to unpack the legacy of harm placed onto their community.

The second annual conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck explores the topic of “research” within the humanities. Building on last year’s conference surrounding methods, viewpoints, and experiences of archives within Native American and Indigenous Studies and African-American Studies, this conference explores historically marginalized epistemologies of social sciences and arts research. As a key mode of academic knowledge creation, in various ways, these lectures, conversations, performances, and workshops aim to unpack the historic and contemporary legacy of harm that social science research perpetuates on Indigenous communities. A special focus will be given to practices of research refusal with the work of Audra Simpson, and research-as-creation, particularly through musical performance, workshops in working with plants as natural fabric dye, and the re-creation and amplification of narrative through. Cross-disciplinary collaborations encourage thoughtful conversations about why, and how, individual and institutional research practices need to shift.

When:

October 12, 1:30-7:30pm

October 13, 8:15am-5:00pm