The Department of English at New York University invites you to its first-ever Emerging Scholars Symposium: a three-part Lecture Series on Native American and Indigenous Literatures. Supported by NYU Arts and Science, the Emerging Scholars Program aims to assist in building a vibrant, diverse and inclusive community of scholars and educators by bringing a small number of excellent early career scholars to NYU to present their research. This April, we're delighted to host:
1. Alika Bourgette (The University of Washington)
[April 14th; 244 Greene St 106; 5:30 PM]
Lecture Title: "Look to the Source: Genealogies and Politics of Family and Place in Early Twentieth Century Kakaʻako, Honolulu"Through intimate accounts of childbirth and youth education, "Look to the Source" investigates the ways Native Hawaiian mothers, midwives, and schoolteachers engaged in placental politics in their refusal of settler colonial politics of recognition, race, and belonging in the early U.S. territorial period.
2. Rae Kuruhara ( The University of California, Los Angeles)
[April 21st; 244 Greene St 106; 5:30 PM]
Lecture Title: "Man(g)a, Moʻolelo, and the Many Bodied Forms of Indigenous Comics"By exploring the potential that mimetic language and olfactory aesthetics have in the development of an Indigenous approach to comics and visual media, this presentation follows a Native Hawaiian cartoonist's mission to discover and develop methods that meld the ecological intimacies of land-based literacy with the graphic form instead of yielding to its traditional conventions.
3. Tarren Andrews (The University of Colorado, Boulder)
[April 28th; 244 Greene St 106; 5:30 PM]
Lecture Title: "Strings, Beads, Threads, and Linen: Reading the Bayeux Embroidery from a Wampum Epistemology" This lecture will "re-read" the Bayeux Embroidery, a famous textile depicting the Battle of Hastings in 1066, from an epistemological perspective informed by Indigenous worldviews shaped by the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace and practices of wampum belt diplomacy.
All lectures will occur in-person at The Event Space, 244 Greene St. Please RSVP here to attend one or more of the lectures.
We look forward to having you join us; please be in touch with questions or concerns by writing to ess.english@nyu.edu