We are still beginning to understand the full impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on the United States, but it is already clear that the disease has disproportionately affected immigrant, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Many are at the frontlines of "essential" industries and have been at greater risk of infection and mortality. Some have been in industries that have shut down or greatly contracted during the pandemic. Others have been at the forefront of increased PPE distribution and vaccine development.

As a follow up to Diane Wilson’s IAS Thursdays event “Telling True Stories: The Seed Keeper,” please join the IAS for an informal discussion on Wilson’s newly released novel, The Seed Keeper.

Presented in partnership with the Mellon Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative
 

As a follow-up to “Beyond Assimilation and Resistance: Očhéti Šakówiŋ Peoplehood Past, Present, and Future,” the recent IAS presentation with Christopher Pexa, Jim Rock, and Waŋblí Mayášleča (Francis Yellow), the IAS invites you to join us for an informal discussion on Chris Pexa’s book Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. 

Featuring:
Chris Pexa, American Indian Studies, CLA
Jim Rock, Dakhóta scholar

Humanities Without Walls funds projects addressing Grand Research Challenge with grants of up to $150,000. Proposals for new grants organized around the methodologies of reciprocity and redistribution will be due in fall 2021 and fall 2022. The full call for proposals will be available in early March, 2021, and more information on the theme is available here. 

Featuring Brittani R. Orona
Native American Studies
University of California, Davis

Join the Institute for Advanced Study for the third in a series of four talks on the subject of Environmental Stewardship, "This is Our Home, This is Our Land”: Visualizing Decolonization on the Klamath River Basin.

Featuring Alexandra Peck
Anthropology
Brown University

Join the Institute for Advanced Study for the second in a series of four talks on the subject of Environmental Stewardship, “Totem Poles, Tools of Reclamation? Adaptive Approaches to Resisting Tropes of Wilderness and Indigenous Erasure in Western Washington.”

Featuring Dr. Deondre Smiles
Departments of History & Geography
The Ohio State University

Join the Institute for Advanced Study for the first in a series of four talks on the subject of Environmental Stewardship, “‘Decolonized Afterlife‘ and its Implications for More-than-Human Kin.”

Are you a graduate student interested in applying for an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship? Join us for an information session with six of the University’s IDF-sponsoring Centers and Institutes:

Watch Kona zoom around the backyard chasing squirrels and her beloved rubber chicken, affectionately named Greg.