2024: Presentations & Invited Talks
“Landed Acknowledgements: Dismantling Performativity to Create Settler Accountability”
2024 American Studies Association conference, WITH Angela L. Robinson, Meredith A. Palmer, AND Sarah MONTOYA
This roundtable, featuring feminist and Indigenous scholars working in the fields of critical and Indigenous geographies and abolitionist discourse, explores ongoing questions around Indigenous land acknowledgements.
“Reckoning with Relationality: Indigenous Scientific Knowledge, Settler Colonial Formations, and the Assumption of Settler Futurity”
2024 Native American and indigenous studies association conference, with lisa fink and sarah montoya
This roundtable situates itself within emerging thinking relative to the formation of “the human” through cultural practices, Indigenous feminist thought, and critical race theory as we discuss the ways centering ISK enables us to reevaluate our relationships, knowledge-sharing protocols, and anticolonial practices within colonial institutions. Our discussions situate these practices within a broader continuum of Indigenous-led resistance and cultural revitalization.
“The Violence of Discursivity and Pain: From Archive to Revenge”
For the mellon foundation postdoctoral fellows in the national park service
As an imperial endeavor, there is no denying the inherent violence of the archive in its pursuit to re-inscribe a kind of memory that can only be understood through the lens of imperialism. What becomes possible through memory, however, can inform the way we think about physical violence in film and literature and beyond. A powerful aspect of this understanding is the ability to expose the way one form of violence, physical, is underwritten by the other, discursive. In this talk, I draw on the ways Audra Simpson identifies positive refusal or a failure to consent as everyday political acts in opposition to agents of the state. I consider justice and what it means to those persisting through processes of settler colonialism and the unequal nature of violence inflicted by the colonized versus that inflicted by the colonizer.