Here is the program:

Program

Thursday evening April 22, 2010

6:00 Reception and check-in, LookOUT! Gallery, Snyder-Phillips Hall

8:00 Keynote Address, “My People Will Sleep for 100 Years: Art, Activism and Visual Sovereignty,” Dr. Dylan A.T. Miner, Michigan State Residential College in Arts and Humanities, Snyder Phillips Hall Auditorium

Friday April 23, 2010

All events at Snyder Phillips Hall Auditorium unless otherwise noted

8:00 Breakfast and registration

8:30 Welcome and Introductions, Sakina Hughes, Michigan State History

8:45 Opening, Dr. Phil Bellfy, Michigan State Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures

Session 1:  Structures of Early Colonialism

9:00 Ashley Wiersma, Michigan State History, “Re-envisioning the Origins of Orientalism and France’s Mission Civilisatrice in New France”

9:15 Deirdre McMurtry, Ohio State History, “The Post-Tridentine Trap:  Exploring the Authority of Indigenous Laity in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century Missions, Canada and Beyond”

9:30 Richard Weyhing, Chicago, “Early America/Ethnohistory/Atlantic World; “’A Great French Chief of Many Voices:’ The Pursuit of Power and the Fragmentation of Authority in the Pays d’en Haut”

9:45 Discussion, Dr. Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State History; Director, American Indian Studies Program Graduate Student Consortium

10:00 Break

Session 2:  Engaging Scholarship and Questioning Narratives

10:15 Libby R. Tronnes, Wisconsin-Madison History, “Displacing the Indigenous: The Storying of Aztalan in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin”

10:30 Devon Miller, Michigan State Anthropology, “Telling Our Stories:  An Ethnohistorical Approach to Social Reconciliation”

10:45 Sarah Dees, Indiana Religious Studies; “Disappearing Culture?:  Tensions in Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Salvage”

11:00 Kelley Fayard, Michigan Anthropology, “Collaborative Research in One’s Own Community”

11:15 Discussion, Dr. Mindy Morgan, Michigan State Anthropology

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