Thinking with and alongside Critical Indigenous Scholarship Conference

 

We explore Indigeneity in all its diversity while celebrating the flourishing of Indigenous scholarship

Wednesday 17 April - Saturday 20 April 2024

In person and Online

Green Templeton College, St Anne's College, Taylor Institution, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Radcliffe Humanities and Wolfson College

Register here for in-person attendance.

In-person registration closes on Friday 12 April 2024. (Speakers are not required to register.)

 

Online registration is now closed. 

You will be sent the joining link within 48 hours of the event, on the day and once again 30 minutes before the event starts.

 

Please see full Conference Programme here.

 

 

TORCH – THE OXFORD RESEARCH CENTRE IN THE HUMANITIES

https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/critical-indigenous-studies-network

CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY THE CRITICAL INDIGENOUS STUDIES NETWORK

THINKING WITH AND ALONGSIDE INDIGENOUS SCHOLARSHIP

Oxford, 17-20 April 2024

VENUES

The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Green Templeton College (GTC)

Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology (ISCA)

St. Anne’s College

The Taylor Institution Library

University of Oxford

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Andrés González Dinamarca (SAME)

Elizabeth Ewart (SAME)

Laura Rival (ODID)

Malvika Gupta (ODID)

Maria Paula Prates (SAME)

Theodor Borrmann (ODID)

CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATORS

TORCH: Julia Antal, Krisztina Lugosi, Sarah Clay

Acknowledgements for financial support: John Fell Fund, TORCH; Green Templeton College (GTC); Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery; School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography (SAME); Oxford Department of International Development (ODID)

Many thanks for logistical support: Caterina Bowley, Josefina Lehnen, and team of volunteers

Cover design: Antonella Mazzone

 

CONFERENCE TIMETABLE

Wednesday 17^th April

Thursday 18^th April

Friday 19^th April

Saturday 20^th April

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

DAY ONE: WEDNESDAY, 17^th April

13:00 onwards: Registration desk at TORCH, Colin Matthew Room

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14:00 – 14:30 Opening ceremony: led by Dario Iza (Pueblo Kitukara, Ecuador)

Venue: Green Templeton College

14:30 – 15:30

Inaugural Event: The All-Hearing Bear: The Sentience of Artefacts and Experiencing the Observed in the Ethnography Museum

Convener: Anna (Anya) Gleizer (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford / Pitt Rivers Museum)

Participants: Faye Belsey (Pitt Rivers Museum); Evenki collaborators

Venue: Green Templeton College, Lecture Theatre (LT) and overflow in Colin Matthew Room

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15:30 – 16:00 Coffee/Tea Break at GTC Stables Bar

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16:00 – 18:00

Panel 1: The Speaking Land: Indigenous (Eco)Poetics and Storytelling

Conveners: Claire Williams (St. Peter’s College, Oxford), and Simon Palfrey (Brasenose College, Oxford)

Participants: Charles Pigott (University of Strathclyde); Tanya Gautam (University of Cologne); Anélia Montechiari Pietrani (UFRJ, Brasil / University of Padua); José Luís Jobim (Universidade Federal Fluminense) and Fábio Almeida Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Roraima); Doro Wiese (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands); Simon Palfrey (Brasenose College, Oxford)

Venue: GTC LT and overflow in TORCH Seminar Room

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18:00 – 18:15 Break

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18:15 – 19:30

Film Screening and Discussion: Owning our narratives: ‘Participatory Video as Revolutionary Tool’

Convener: Nick Lunch (InsightShare)

Venue: GTC LT

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DAY TWO: THURSDAY, 18^th April

9:00-11:00 

Panel 2: Textualities and Shamanic Representations

Conveners: Nehemias Pino (University of Copenhagen) and Michael Uzendoski (FLACSO, Ecuador)

Participants: Arthur Cognet (Université Lumière Lyon 2); Lisa Alvarado (Universität Bern); Michael Uzendoski (FLACSO, Ecuador), Edith Uzendoski, Sisa Marie Uzendoski Calapucha; Nehemias Pino (University of Copenhagen)

Venue:  TORCH Seminar Room and overflow in SAME (64 Banbury Road)

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Panel 3: Is there a subject for/of learning? Rethinking education through Indigenous ways of knowing within critical trends in anthropology and science

Conveners: Françoise Barbira-Freedman (University of Cambridge) and Elizabeth Rahman (University of Oxford)

Participants: José Farrujia de la Rosa (Universidad de La Laguna, Canarias, Spain); Maurizio Meloni (Deakin University); Patricia Nez Henderson (University of Arizona); Vanessa Andreotti Machado de Oliveira (University of Victoria, Canada); Susana Kolb Cadwell (University of Oxford); Françoise Barbira-Freedman (University of Cambridge); Elizabeth Rahman (University of Oxford); Camille Morissette (University of Edinburgh), Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge)

Venue: GTC LT

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11:00 – 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break (TORCH and GTC Stables Bar)

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11:30 – 13:30

Roundtable 1: Critical Indigenous Studies in the UK: Developing a Responsible and Responsive Model for Research, Collaboration and Teaching

Chair: Rebecca Macklin (University of Aberdeen)

Participants: Chiara Minestrelli (London College of Communication); Ananya Mishra (Queen Mary University of London); Rebecca Macklin (University of Aberdeen); Adelaide McGinity-Peebles (University of Nottingham); Angelos Theocharis (University of Newcastle); David Stirrup (University of York)

Venue: Taylor Institution, Main Hall

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13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break

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14:30 – 17:00

Panel 4: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage in Municipal and Postsecondary Contexts 

Convener: Patrick C. Wilson (University of Lethbridge and Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy)

Participants: Camina Weasel Moccasin (Galt Museum and Archives); Ross Kilgour (City of Lethbridge and Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy); Perry Stein (Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy); Tara Million (University of Lethbridge and Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy); Michelle Hogue (University of Lethbridge and Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy); Andrea Cuéllar (University of Lethbridge and Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy); Patrick C. Wilson (University of Lethbridge and Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy)

Venue: TORCH Seminar Room and overflow in Colin Matthew

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Panel 5: Indigenous Midwifery Knowledge(s) and its Compositions

Conveners: Maria Paula Prates (University of Oxford) and Aline Regitano (Universidade de São Paulo/City University of London)

Participants: Esther Neira (Queen’s University Belfast); Valéria Macedo and Amanda Signori (Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, Brazil), and Sandra Benites (Museu Nacional UFRJ, Brazil); Ólöf Ásta Ólafsdóttir (University of Iceland); Edilasomar Sampaio (DSEI Yanomami, SESAI, Brazil) and Maria Christina Barra (Independent scholar); Riwanon Gouez (EHESS, France) and Cristina Yalanda (Misak Indigenous Midwife and Wisdom Keeper, Colombia); José Miguel Nieto Olivar, Natália Farias, Elizângela Baré and Danielle Ichikura (University of São Paulo – USP, Brazil); Gloria Francisca Salazar (Kaqchikel Midwife, Guatemala) and Ana Isabella Gonzalez Palma (University of Oxford); Charlotte Hoskins (University of Oxford)

Venue: GTC LT

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17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break (TORCH and GTC Stables Bar)

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17:30 – 19:00

Film Screening and Discussion:

Film 1: ‘Scenes from El Alto’: Indigenous youth, participatory video, and the docufiction ‘The Roots Ahead (Las Raíces Adelante)’

Convener: Philipp Horn (University of Sheffield)

Film 2: ‘My Language is My Soul’: Indigenous Filmmaking as Critical Heritage Practice

Convener: Dr Angelos Theocharis (Newcastle University)

Venue: TORCH Seminar Room and Colin Matthew Room

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DAY THREE: FRIDAY, 19^th April

9:00 – 11:00

Panel 6: Towards a methodology for the co-production of transdisciplinary knowledge for the pluriverse

Conveners: Marc Brightman (University of Bologna) and Vanessa Grotti (University of Bologna)

Participants: Geoffrey Nwaka (Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria); Sâmela Pedrada Cardoso (University of Manchester); Irene Friesen Wolfstone (Independent scholar, Canada); Vanessa Grotti and Marc Brightman (University of Bologna, Italy); Tom Thornton (University of Alaska)

Discussant: Elizabeth Ewart (University of Oxford)

Venue:  TORCH, Seminar Room

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Panel 7: Transforming education: Indigenous practices from the Pacific

Conveners: Marcia Leenen-Young (Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland); Sereana Naepi (Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland); Krushil Watene (Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland); Vaoiva Ponton (Griffith University, Australia)

Participants in this interactive session must sign up in advance. Please find details on the website.

Venue: GTC LT

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11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break (TORCH and GTC Stables Bar)

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11:30 – 13:30

Roundtable 2: What forms of cross-cultural learning have emerged through intercultural collaborations? (Convened by the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, University of York, and University of Cambridge Indigenous Studies Group)

Chair: Professor Graham Harvey (The Open University)

Participants: Milly Mulcahey-Knight (University of York); Lianna Harrington (University of Cambridge); Marilena Proietti (Sapienza Università di Roma); Kyla Piccin (University of Cambridge)

Venue: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College

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13:30 -14:30 Lunch Break

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14:30 – 17:00

Panel 8: How do Indigenous scientists deal with specialized and expert knowledge?

Convener: Damien Lee (Toronto Metropolitan University)

Participants: Geraldine King (McGill University); John R. E. Bird (Faculty of History, University of Oxford); Kat Wehrheim (Independent researcher); Damien Lee (Toronto Metropolitan University)

Venue: TORCH Colin Matthew Room and overflow in SAME (64 Banbury Road)

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Panel 9: Indigenous political ontologies: autonomy in neoliberal times

Conveners: Malvika Gupta (University of Oxford) and Andrés González Dinamarca (University of Oxford)

Participants: Kristina Baines (City University of New York); Virginia Lincan (CONICET / Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco); Claudio Millacura (Cátedra Indígena, Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Chile); Majdouline El Hichou (University of Edinburgh); Dr. Gabrielle Legault and Denica Bleau (University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada); Adriana Guzmán (Feminismo Comunitario Antipatriarcal / Feministas de Abya Yala); Dario Iza (Independent scholar / President of Pueblo Kitukara); Kerstin Reibold (Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø)

Venue: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College

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17:00 – 18:00

Keynote Address: Educating for Intergenerational Justice: Insights from Pūrākau

Speaker: Krushil Watene (Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland)

Venue: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College

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18:00 – 18:30 Drinks reception at St Anne’s College

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20:00 onwards: Social event at Wolfson College Bar

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DAY FOUR: SATURDAY, 20^th April

9:30 – 11:30

Way Forward and Networking

Venue:  Green Templeton Lecture Theatre

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11:30 – 13:30

Film Screening and Discussion: ‘Land of Many Waters’

Convener: Daniel Cooper (California State University San Marcos)

Venue: Green Templeton Lecture Theatre

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Follow the link to the call for paper.

For further information, please contact indigenousstudies@torch.ox.ac.uk.

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