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
- 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