2020 Brown Bag Series /cnais/ en Weaving Trans-Indigenous Solidarities in the Pacific: The Case of West Papua /cnais/2020/11/05/weaving-trans-indigenous-solidarities-pacific-case-west-papua-0 <span> Weaving Trans-Indigenous Solidarities in the Pacific: The Case of West Papua</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-11-05T11:55:22-07:00" title="Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 11:55">Thu, 11/05/2020 - 11:55</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/wansolwara.jpg?h=5791b321&amp;itok=9sC0UqtJ" width="1200" height="600" alt="Wansolwara"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/387"> 2020 Brown Bag Series </a> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/4"> Events </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/389" hreflang="en">2020 Brown Bag Series</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-above"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle large_image_style"> <img loading="lazy" src="/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/large_image_style/public/article-image/wansolwara.jpg?itok=a4uY1wbG" width="1500" height="2318" alt="Wansolara"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-text d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p class="text-align-center">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 poems from a special issue of <em>Hawai‘i Review, Wansolwara: Voices for West Papua,</em> to bring a literary lens to contemporary expressions of Papuan protest by West Papuans and by other Indigenous authors for West Papua. These poems articulate material and embodied acts of story-making as critical for mapping the Pacific as Indigenous space. Such acts of storied activism are not only responses to colonialism but part of creating coalitions that assert interconnected Indigenous presences and persistence in the Pacific. They theorize frameworks for transoceanic decolonial futures that emphasize the Pacific’s multiplicity of stories while also making visible relationships beyond the forced connections of empire.&nbsp;</p> <p class="text-align-center"></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="text-align-center">Bonnie Etherington is the Environmental Futures Postdoctoral Fellow at CU Boulder. She earned her PhD in English from Northwestern University, and she is at work on a book manuscript entitled <em>One Salt Water: Writing the Pacific Ocean in Contemporary Indigenous Protest Literatures.</em>&nbsp;Her scholarly work is forthcoming in <em>The Contemporary Pacific</em>, and recently published in <em>New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific</em> (Routledge, 2019). Her first novel, <em>The Earth Cries Out</em> (Vintage NZ, 2017), was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and long-listed for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. &nbsp;Bonnie was born in Aotearoa New Zealand and raised in West Papua.</p> <p class="text-align-center">Zoom:&nbsp;</p> <p class="text-align-center">Time: Nov 13, 2020 12:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)</p> <p class="text-align-center">Join Zoom Meeting<br> https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98651871346</p> <p class="text-align-center">Meeting ID: 986 5187 1346</p> <p class="text-align-center">&nbsp;</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:55:22 +0000 Anonymous 757 at /cnais Changing Woman and the Collective Voice in Navajo and Korean Literature: Oral Tradition and the Poetry of Luci Tapahonso and Kim Hyesun /cnais/2020/10/09/changing-woman-and-collective-voice-navajo-and-korean-literature-oral-tradition-and <span>Changing Woman and the Collective Voice in Navajo and Korean Literature: Oral Tradition and the Poetry of Luci Tapahonso and Kim Hyesun</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-10-09T13:26:06-06:00" title="Friday, October 9, 2020 - 13:26">Fri, 10/09/2020 - 13:26</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/yi_photo_2020_resized.jpg?h=59fd08a9&amp;itok=6z5ISm-c" width="1200" height="600" alt="Ivanna Yi"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/387"> 2020 Brown Bag Series </a> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/4"> Events </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/389" hreflang="en">2020 Brown Bag Series</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-above"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-text d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>By Ivanna Sang Een Yi&nbsp;</p> <p>This talk compares the use of the collective voice by leading Diné/Navajo and Korean poets Luci Tapahonso and Kim Hyesun.&nbsp;Countering a narrative of the diminishment of oral traditions, the talk foregrounds the&nbsp;significance and flourishing of the oral tradition in (post)colonial contexts.</p> <p>About the speaker:&nbsp;Ivanna Sang Een Yi is a scholar of Korean literature, culture, and performance. Her research focuses on the performative dimensions of living oral traditions as they interact with written literature and the environment from the late Chosŏn period to the present. Her current book project,&nbsp;<em>Continuing Orality and the Environment in Korean Literature</em>, examines the flourishing of Korean oral traditions such as&nbsp;<em>p'ansori</em>&nbsp;(epic dramatic storytelling) and&nbsp;<em>sijo</em>&nbsp;(lyric poetry) through transformative encounters with writing, the environment, and recording technology. The monograph engages Indigenous perspectives and theories from the Americas to illuminate ways in which land has been treated as a sentient interlocutor rather than a commodity by Korean singers and writers both before and after the rise of global capitalism. She is also working on a second monograph project which examines the representation of nonhuman animals and interspecies relationships in modern and contemporary Korean literature. Before coming to Cornell, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.</p> <p><strong>Friday, October 30th, 2020 from 12:00- 1:00pm&nbsp;</strong></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:26:06 +0000 Anonymous 751 at /cnais Karelian and other Indigenous Languages of Russia: endangerment and revitalization efforts /cnais/2020/10/07/karelian-and-other-indigenous-languages-russia-endangerment-and-revitalization-efforts <span>Karelian and other Indigenous Languages of Russia: endangerment and revitalization efforts</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-10-07T13:49:34-06:00" title="Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 13:49">Wed, 10/07/2020 - 13:49</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/aleksei_tsykarev_russian_children.jpg?h=3e71859a&amp;itok=D05M-csp" width="1200" height="600" alt="Aleksei Tsykarev "> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/387"> 2020 Brown Bag Series </a> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/4"> Events </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/389" hreflang="en">2020 Brown Bag Series</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-above"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle large_image_style"> <img loading="lazy" src="/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/large_image_style/public/article-image/karelian_languages_aleksei.jpg?itok=U6xW-nvT" width="1500" height="999" alt="Aleksei Tsykarev"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-text d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p class="text-align-center"><br> All indigenous&nbsp;languages in&nbsp;Russia are endangered to&nbsp;differing&nbsp;extents, and in most cases&nbsp;their transmission&nbsp;from&nbsp;generation to another is damaged or interrupted.&nbsp;Indigenous language communities are&nbsp;interested in urgent&nbsp;revitalisation projects and long-term planning, while the authorities are seeking to promote&nbsp;«good practices» and&nbsp;«centuries-long experience» in safeguarding linguistic diversity. &nbsp;Karelian,&nbsp;Komi, Mari,&nbsp;Nenets, Sami and dozens of other languages will not survive without a logical&nbsp;and effective model for&nbsp;coexistence of&nbsp;endangered and dominant languages that includes setting&nbsp;priorities, restoring prestige, and&nbsp;promoting true revitalisation activities.&nbsp;As the world prepares for the United Nation’s International Decade of&nbsp;Indigenous Languages 2022-2032, my research considers questions of how to make expectations a reality&nbsp;and who should participate in language policy&nbsp;development and&nbsp;implementation in Russia and beyond.<br> </p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:49:34 +0000 Anonymous 745 at /cnais Coca, Cocaine, and the New Left in Bolivia: Ethnographic Fieldwork on the ‘Drug War’ and Sindicato Democracy. /cnais/2020/09/28/coca-cocaine-and-new-left-bolivia-ethnographic-fieldwork-drug-war-and-sindicato-democracy <span>Coca, Cocaine, and the New Left in Bolivia: Ethnographic Fieldwork on the ‘Drug War’ and Sindicato Democracy.</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-09-28T17:19:18-06:00" title="Monday, September 28, 2020 - 17:19">Mon, 09/28/2020 - 17:19</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/entrevista_with_don_ignacio.jpg?h=5ac13e3d&amp;itok=qZMmyGst" width="1200" height="600" alt="entrevista "> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/387"> 2020 Brown Bag Series </a> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/4"> Events </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/cnais/taxonomy/term/389" hreflang="en">2020 Brown Bag Series</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-above"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-text d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>Bolivia’s agrarian&nbsp;<em>sindicato</em>, or labor union, system of communal governance represents a hybrid form of democracy which draws from several political traditions -- including&nbsp;European syndicalist theory, Bolivia's 1953 Agrarian Reform, and Andean cultural traditions -- and has contributed to the rise in indigenous participation and representation in national politics. Former President Evo Morales’s leadership style was forged through the agrarian sindicato system and its resistance to forced eradication of coca leaf via the U.S. “war on drugs.” My ethnographic research shows how the lucrative and highly symbolic coca leaf economy is the issue around which agrarian sindicato activity has been organized since the 1980s, utilizing such measures as assemblies, protest marches, road blockades, and summit meetings. I analyze these classic syndicalist methods of collective popular participation and show how sindicato governance contributed to Morales’s “democratic revolution” as part of the New Left and innovative coca policies centered on harm reduction.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 23:19:18 +0000 Anonymous 727 at /cnais