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 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 

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 

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