This one hour program will explore the use visual and literary arts in Indigenous land back movements through a femi nist lens.
\nAbout \;Native Lands: \;
\n" Native Lands analyzes the role of visual and literary culture in contempor ary Indigenous campaigns for territorial rights. In the post-1960s era\, I ndigenous artists and writers have created works that align with the goals and strategies of new Native land-based movements. These works represent Native histories and epistemologies in ways that complement activist endea vors\, while also probing the limits of these political projects\, especia lly with regard to gender. The social marginalization of Native women was integral to dispossession. And yet its enduring consequences have remained largely neglected\, even in Native organizing\, as a pressing concern ass ociated with the status of Indigenous people in settler nation-states. The cultural works discussed in this book provide an urgent Indigenous femini st rethinking of Native politics that exposes the innate gendered dimensio ns of ongoing settler colonialism. They insist that Indigenous campaigns f or territorial rights must entail gender justice for Native women."
\n< p>About Shari Huhndorf: \;\nShari M. Huhndorf received her Ph.D. i n Comparative Literature from New York University\, and she is currently C lass of 1938 Professor of Native American Studies in the Department of Eth nic Studies at UC Berkeley. Her research and teaching focus on the areas o f interdisciplinary Native American studies\, Alaska Native studies\, cont emporary literary and visual culture\, cultural studies\, gender studies\, and American studies.
\nProfessor Huhndorf is the author of three b ooks\, including Native Lands: Culture\, Gender\, and Indigenous Territori al Claims (forthcoming\, University of California Press). Her previous boo ks include Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination (Cor nell University Press\, 2001) and Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Cornell University Press\, 2009)\ , along with the co-edited volume Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics\ , Activism\, Culture (University of British Columbia Press\, 2010)\, winne r of the Canadian Women&rsquo\;s Studies Association prize for Outstanding Scholarship. Another co-edited work\, Sovereignty\, Indigeneity\, and the Law (Duke University Press\, 2011)\, a special issue of South Atlantic Qu arterly\, won the Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for best sp ecial issue of a journal as well as the award for outstanding indigenous s cholarship from the American Indian and Alaska Native Professors Associati on for 2011. Her work has also appeared in journals including Critical Inq uiry\, Signs\, PMLA\, American Quarterly\, American Anthropologist\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, Social Identities\, and Annals of Scholarship. She h as received major fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foun dation\, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation\, the Ford Foundation\, and the Ame rican Association of University Women. Currently she is working (with Roy Huhndorf) on a Native community history of the Alaska Native Claims Settle ment Act\, the largest Indigenous land claims settlement in US history.
\nProfessor Huhndorf is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Natio nal Museum of the American Indian\, Smithsonian Institution\, where she se rves as chair of the repatriation committee. She is a former member and ch air of the executive committee of the Division of Twentieth-Century Americ an Literature of the Modern Language Association. She also served for a de cade on the board of directors of the CIRI Foundation\, which provides edu cational funding and supports cultural programs for Alaska Natives in her home community. At Berkeley\, Professor Huhndorf is affiliated with the Ce nter for Race and Gender\, the Interdisciplinary Program in American Studi es\, the Designated Emphasis in Gender and Women&rsquo\;s Studies\, the Jo seph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues\, the Canadian Studies Program\, and the Joint Medical Program MD/MS. She received a Pre sident&rsquo\;s Award from the Alaska Federation of Natives for her contri butions to Native education as well as a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Division of Social Sciences and a Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award from the Graduate Assembly at UC Berkeley. Huhndorf is Yup&rsquo\;ik and w as raised in her home community in Alaska.
\nEvent Accessibi lity: \;Wheelchair accessible. Request sign language interpre ter\, real-time captioning\, materials in large print\, braille\, or other accommodations by calling 510-981-6195 (Library) or the 510-981-6347 (Cit y of Berkeley TDD line). Please refrain from scented products during publi c programs.
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