Keynote Speaker: Dr. Danika Medak-Saltzman (from Syracuse University)
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Time: 6:00-7:00pm
Location: HYBRID EVENT
      -    ZOOM LINK:  https://tcu.zoom.us/j/98268486933

IN PERSON LOCATION: SCHAR 3004/CLC

Radical Relationality and “No Island is an Island”: Transpacific Indigeneity, Inter-imperiality and Expanding our Frames of Reference

•  Event Description: The past decade has seen a tremendous uptick in academic engagement with scholarship related to Indigenous peoples, and these have, importantly, included work by and about Pacific Islanders and Native Hawai’ians. Where conventional and “continental” frameworks have excluded and long overwritten the knowledges of other(ed) peoples across the Pacific, Indigenous studies approaches amplify the voices, traditions, perspectives, knowledges and histories that reveal the radical relationality and mobility of Islanders. From Haudeosaunee (Iroquois) country in the U.S. Northeast, through the Great Lakes, up and down the Northwest Pacific coast, across the Hawai’ian Islands, and throughout Pasifika, reviving traditions of water travel across home territories has become a revitalizing force for Indigenous peoples. This talk will weave together strands of scholarly, student-centered, and re-awakened Indigenous water travel traditions as a counterpoint to the limitations of Euro-western, inter-imperially informed perspectives to highlight how embracing relational ways of being, thinking, and engaging the world can better prepare us for the challenges and opportunities of the future.

•    Keynote Bio: Dr. Danika Medak-Saltzman is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, at Syracuse University.

For more information, contact Dr. Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland, Director of Asian Studies, at b.ireland@tcu.edu.

                                         Sponsored by Asian Studies and CRES