Indigenous Shapes of Water

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Online Nov 24—28, 2020

Program

For the full brochure with schedule, abstracts and bios, please download here (PDF).

In order to keep it technically simple, there will be no panel chairs from among the other participating colleagues. Your Zoom sessions will be hosted in teams of two by Friederike, Henry, Saskia and our student assistant, Sophie Renard.

(Note: 5pm CET = 11 am EST, 8 am PST; 7 pm CET = 1 pm EST, 10 am PCT)
Date / Time (CET)* Panel / Papers Parallel Panel / Papers Panel Chair
Tue Nov 24

5 — 6.30 pm

Opening
· Opening words by the organizers
· Jackie Hookimaw-Witt: Waban Meegwon Esquew Nina (I am White Feather Woman): Thoughts of a Mushkego-Cree woman about protecting the river of her people – the Attawapiskat First Nation


Coffee Break Moderated breakout groups

7 — 8.30 pm Panel #2 DAPL & Beyond
· Hanna, Ashly (U of N Dakota ): DAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline): The Aftermath
· Journée-Duez, Aurélie (EHESS): The #NoDAPL movement: From eco-activism to feminist-artivism (2016–2019)


8.30 pm — … Meet & Greet breakout groups

Wed Nov 25

5 — 6.30 pm


Panel #3 Native Americans and Museums
· Collins, Rob (S Francisco State U); Lindner, Markus (Goethe-U Frankfurt); Richland, Justin (U of California Irvine); Wali, Alaka (Field Mus. Chicago): Native Americans and Museums — International Perspectives and Collaborative Prospects (Panel)


Coffee Break Moderated breakout groups


7 — 8.30 pm


Parallel Panel #4 A Perspectives from the Southwest
· Mato-Mora, Patricia (U of Cambridge): Gi'iko ce:mo'oidag – A proposal for urban-agrarian development in the Gila River Indian Community, AZ
· Wallwaey, Catharina (Goethe-U Frankfurt): Solar Power on Tribal Lands – An Example from the Southwest 
· Field, Margaret (S Diego State U): Sacred Water Imagery in Yuman Oral Tradition


Parallel Panel #4 B Indian Residential & Boarding Schools
· Telebian, Kamelia (Sapienza U Rome): Lack of Food and the Betrayal of the Witness in “Where the Spirit Lives”
· Wixon, Amanda (U of California Riverside): Programs of Punishment: Carceral Aspects of Sherman Institute
· Vincent Veerbeek (Radboud U Nijmegen): Still the same old song? Music at Sherman Institute after the Second World War


Thu Nov 26
4 — 5


AIW business meeting



5 — 6.30 pm

Panel #5 Fluid Identities: Queer + Indigenous Perspectives
· Mackay, James (EUC Nicosia): “thanking the eagles above me the water around me”: Water and digital environments in the poetry of Smokii Sumac
· Zanella, Patrizia (U of Geneva): “when history is stolen like water”: IndigiQueering EJ in Tommy Pico’s Poetry 
· Ingwersen, Moritz(U Konstanz) “Why would the water want to straighten my spirit?:” Fluid Relations in the Work of Joshua Whitehead



Coffee Break

Moderated breakout groups



7 — 8.30 pm

Panel #6  Links+/-boundaries
· Kádár, Judit (TE U Budapest): Water and Fluidity in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Prose Texts
· Preusser, Alisa (U Münster): Navigating Water Boundaries in Thomas King’s “Truth & Bright Water”
· Wilczyńska, Elżbieta (U of Poznań): Water and Women Link Representations in Contemporary Native American and First Nations’ Art



Fri Nov 27

5 — 6.30 pm

Panel #7 Perspectives from the Arctic
· Gilheany, Emma (U of Chicago): Narratives of Mobility on the Nunatsiavut Coast: Sea Ice, Fog, Sovereignty
· Ross, Sonja (Munich): Boundless waters, boundless ice – Arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons
· Dumas, Daniel (LMU Munich – RCC ): Problematic Postage: Canada’s Claim to High Arctic Lands and Waters through a Stamp



Coffee Break

Breakout groups



7 — 8.30 pm

Parallel Panel #8 A - Media and performances
· Šavelková, Lívia (U of Pardubice): Games, Sports and Water: Participations and sovereignties of Native Americans in Sporting Events
· Heřmanský, Martin (Charles U Prague): Shapes of Water in Contemporary Native American Hip Hop
· Ruckes, Amy (independent scholar) with Saiph Savage (W Virginia U) & Eber Betanzos (U Nacional Autónoma de México): Exploitation of Indigenous Social Media for Political Propaganda

Parallel Panel #8 B - Waterways and journeys
· Nichols, Roger L. (U of Arizona): Changing the Indigenous Shapes of Water: Building the Kinzua, Oahe, and Dalles Dams
· Ehrmann-Curat, Quentin (EHESS): “Following the Highways of our Ancestors”: Tribal Journeys on the Northwest Coast as a catalyst of cultural resurgence and a vehicle for Native claims
· Nusko, Friederike (LMU Munich): “Our Fish, Our Life.” Water and the Tulalip Tribes in the Hibulb Cultural Center & Natural History Preserve


Sat Nov 28

3 — 4.30 pm



Panel #9 – Historic encounters
· Moons, Adeline (U Gent): “That all past injurys are buryd and forgotten” Agency of Native Americans in seventeenth century intercultural diplomacy in New Netherland/New York
· Petit, Jeroen (U Gent): The Third Anglo-Dutch War and the Articles of Peace between Charles II and several Indian kings and queens
· Hlebowicz, Bartosz (Florence): “A chapter full of romantic episodes.” – Buffalo Bill’s Indians and Congress of Rough Riders of the World in Galicia, 1906.



Coffee Break




5 — 6.30 pm

Parallel Panel #10 A Perspectives from the northern Plains
· Ziarkowska, Joanna (U of Warsaw): “Slender vial of DNA / For Sale”: Dismantling Genomic Articulations of Indigeneity in the Poetry of Heid E. Erdrich
· Jeleńska, Gabriela (U of Warsaw): Paternal Rights of Mishipeshu: Validating the Water Being of Louise Erdrich’s Tracks
· Hans, Birgit (U of N Dakota): Cooperation as Resistance: American Indian Women, Field Matrons and Housekeepers on the Northern Plains

Parallel Panel #10 B Interior BC cases
· Hart, Richard E. (independent scholar): The Arrow Lakes People
· Reuther, Nina (Konstanz): Water Resource Management between Traditional and Contemporary Economical Conceptions in BC


Coffee Brea

Moderated breakout groups



7 — 8.30 pm

Panel #11 Resource use and protection
· Kruk-Buchowska, Zuzanna (U of Poznań): Food sovereignty practices at the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin: The case of Ohe-láku – Among the Cornstalks
· Brill, Saskia (LMU Munich): Clam Beds, Fish Traps + Salmon Streams: The role of Inter-tidal Zones in Indigenous Land Use Planning at Canadas Pacific Coast
· Jacquemin, Sylvie (Monthermé): «Walking with the River» [Film project]



8.30 — 9 pm Wrap up and closing words by the AIW conveners.