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 poems from a special issue of Hawai‘i Review, Wansolwara: Voices for West Papua, to...

By Ivanna Sang Een Yi This talk compares the use of the collective voice by leading Diné/Navajo and Korean poets Luci Tapahonso and Kim Hyesun. Countering a narrative of the diminishment of oral traditions, the talk foregrounds the significance and flourishing of the oral tradition in (post)colonial contexts. About the...

All indigenous languages in Russia are endangered to differing extents, and in most cases their transmission from generation to another is damaged or interrupted. Indigenous language communities are interested in urgent revitalisation projects and long-term planning, while the authorities are seeking to promote «good practices» and «centuries-long experience» in safeguarding...

Bolivia’s agrarian sindicato , or labor union, system of communal governance represents a hybrid form of democracy which draws from several political traditions -- including 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...