Feb. 22
4:00–5:00 pm
Zoom
Attend a conversation with Prof. Doug Kiel, with an introduction by Prof. SJ Zhang and moderated by Prof. Teresa Montoya.
Doug Kiel is a citizen of the Oneida Nation and an assistant professor of history and the humanities at Northwestern University. They study Indigenous histories of the Great Lakes region and the history of federal Indian law and policy. Kiel is completing a book entitled Unsettling Territory: Oneida Nation Resurgence and Anti-Sovereignty Backlash, and is an advisor and co-curator for the Field Museum's new exhibition Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories, which opens in May. At Northwestern, he has participated in a wide range of Indigeous activities on campus, inclluding the development of the university's Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR).
SJ Zhang's research and teaching are both concerned with seventeenth through nineteenth-century archives of slavery and marronage in the United States and the Caribbean. She is interested in how resistance practices and flight from enslavement by Black and Native individuals in the Caribbean and North America shaped textual and visual production in the colonial period.
Teresa Montoya is a social scientist and media maker trained in socio-cultural anthropology, critical Indigenous studies, and filmmaking. Her current manuscript project, Permeable: Diné Politics of Extraction and Exposure, approaches territorial dispossession and environmental contamination in and around the Navajo Nation as pervasive features of contemporary Indigenous life.
This event is presented by the Land Acknowledgement Working Group with support from the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, Pozen Center Human Rights Lab, and Center for Identity + Inclusion. It is open to the public.