American and Indigenous Studies Program Presents
The DRE: Disturbance, Re-Animation, and Emergent Archives
Friday, October 21, 2022 – Saturday, October 22, 2022
A Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Conference
Please join us for the inaugural fall conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, a Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times project. This conference considers the topic of archives from a range of humanistic perspectives, with keynotes showcasing methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies and African and African American Studies, as well as offering the viewpoints of contemporary artists on these topics. Multimedia Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang will be opening the conference with a screening and talk on Thursday evening in Weis Cinema, followed by an opening reception at the Center for Experimental Humanities (New Annandale House). Keynotes by award-winning scholars Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes, presidential term chair in African American history, Rutgers University, and Dr. Elizabeth Ellis, assistant professor of history, Princeton University, and citizen, Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, bracket a day of smaller sessions exploring and modeling ethical practices in the archive, open to students, faculty, and staff on Friday. Recipients of Rethinking Place student research funding will present on their work on Saturday morning, and the conference concludes with a talk open to the public by Oglala Lakota scholar and multimedia artist Kite (MFA ’15) at LUMA Theater at 2 pm on Saturday. The DRE is the first of three annual conferences supported by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.
Schedule
Thursday, October 20, 2022 (Weis Cinema)
5pm: Screening and presentation with Bently Spang with reception directly following at the Center for Experimental Humanities
Friday, October 21, 2022 (RKC)
8:30 am: Coffee
9:00 am: Welcome and introductions
9:30 am: Opening keynote with Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes, “Buried ‘Without Care’: Social Death, Discarded Lives, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade”
10:30 am: Break
11:00 am: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations
- Talaya Robinson-Dancy: “Finding Your Place in the Archives: Black Women and Research”
- Wikipedia “Edit-a-Thon”
- Williams College Student-led Session
2:00–3:45 pm: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations
- Olivia Tencer: “On Research, Life, and Archives: a Conversation”
- Wikipedia “Edit-a-Thon”
- Film Screening
4:00–5:00 pm: Closing keynote with Dr. Elizabeth Ellis, “Recovering Indigenous Histories of Survival: Enduring Louisiana Nations”
Saturday, October 22, 2022
11:00 am: Student Presentations with Vivian Hoyden and Nine Reed-Meera at the Center for Experimental Humanities (New Annandale House)
2:00 pm: Closing lecture and reception with Suzanne Kite MFA ’15, “Makȟóčheowápi Akézaptaŋ (Fifteen Maps).” (LUMA Theater)
Conference Information
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].