Center for Indigenous Studies Presents
Antíkoni: A Symposium
Thursday, April 25, 2024 – Friday, April 26, 2024
The Inaugural Symposium of the Center for Indigenous Studies
The Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies will host its inaugural symposium on Thursday, April 25, and Friday, April 26, at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The symposium includes workshops, lectures, and discussions centered around Dr. Beth Piatote’s (Nez Perce enrolled Colville Confederated Tribes) brilliant play Antíkoni, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone. Piatote will give her public keynote address “Antíkoni and the Question of Adaptation” on Thursday, April 25, 2:00–3:30 pm ET in Weis Cinema, located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. A closing public lecture “Between the Heart and Horizon Line: Culturally Responsive Care in Collection Management” will be delivered by Yale University’s Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf (Hiraacá, Nu’eta, and Sosore, ancestral Apsáalooke and Nʉmʉnʉʉ) on Friday, April 26, 4:30–5:30 pm ET in the Bito ’60 Auditorium, located in the Reem-Kayden Center, Room 103, at Bard College. All talks are open to the public and do not require registration.Dr. Beth Piatote’s (Nez Perce enrolled Colville Confederated Tribes) play Antíkoni is from her collection The Beadworkers and was written in part while in residence as a fellow at Bard Graduate Center. Inspired by this work’s themes of possession, belonging, and inheritance, the Center for Indigenous Studies has invited speakers to discuss tribal preservation, NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act), and the universality of the values that run through both Sophocles’ Antigone and Piatote’s adaptation. Invited guests include Dr. Laurie Arnold (Sinixt Band Colville Confederated Tribes), the director of Native American Studies and Professor of History at Gonzaga University; Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican), tribal historic preservation manager for the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans; Dr. Julie Burelle, performance studies scholar, dramaturg, and assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California San Diego; and Dr. Sailakshmi Ramgopal, classicist, artist, and assistant professor of history at Columbia University.
Symposium Schedule
Apr 25, 2024
2:00–3:30 pm, Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center
Opening Keynote: “Antíkoni and the Question of Adaptation”
Dr. Beth Piatote (Nez Perce, Colville Confederated Tribes)
Staged Reading of scenes
4:30-5:30pm, Blithewood
Information to follow
6:00–7:00 pm, Blithewood Manor
“Possession, Belongings and Inheritance: Stockbridge-Munsee Community’s Approach to NAGPRA”
Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee Community)
Apr 26, 2024
9:15–10:45 am, Finberg House (seating is limited, please arrive early)
“Antíkoni in a Settler Classroom on Kumeyaay Land: Storytelling ‘in the Meantime’ to Imagine ‘Beyond’ It”
Dr. Julie Burelle, associate professor of performance studies in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego
11:00–12:00 pm, Finberg House (seating is limited, please arrive early)
“Antíkoni as Public History”
Dr. Laurie Arnold (Sinixt Band of the Colville Confederated Tribes), professor of history and director of Native American Studies; Powers Chair of the Humanities at Gonzaga University
1:15–2:30 pm, Finberg House (seating is limited, please arrive early)
Dr. Sailakshmi Ramgopal, assistant professor of history at Columbia University
“Teaching Antigone and Antíkoni”
2:45–4:00 pm, Finberg House (seating is limited, please arrive early)
Dr. Amy Pistone, assistant professor of classical civilizations at Gonzaga University
Tyler Archer, postdoctoral fellow in classical studies at Bard College
4:30–5:30 pm, Bito ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center 103
Closing Keynote: “Between the Heart and Horizon Line: Culturally Responsive Care in Collection Management”
Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf (Hiraacá, Nu’eta, and Sosore, ancestral Apsáalooke and Nʉmʉnʉʉ)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].