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Fall schedule for the History of Indigenous Peoples research cluster

History of Indigenous Peoples (HIP) Fall Schedule 2015

September 10: Presentation & Discussion of Paper

Thursday, 12:30-2:30 hosted by GHSA’s Historian’s Craft, 2183 Vari Hall

Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, Assistant Professor of History and Art History at George Mason University, “Indigenous Washington City: Public History and the Urban Archive”

Thursday, 3:30-5:00pm, Room 749, Kaneff Tower (Robarts   Centre) A pre-circulated paper by Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, “The Indian’s Capital City: Secret Native Histories of Washington D.C.”

September 15: Discussion of Paper

Tuesday, 2:00-4:00, Room 749, Kaneff Tower (Robarts Centre), York University. Megan Davies (PhD Student, Theatre and Performance Studies), “Reading the Remains: Changes to the Colonizer’s Gaze in 1989 and 1991.”

September 29: Discussion of Paper

Tuesday, 2:00-4:00, Room 749, Kaneff Tower (Robarts Centre), York University. John Lutz, Associate Professor of History, University of Victoria, “The Exotopic Trick: Coming to Native Newcomer History through Exchange”

1October 6: Roundtable Discussion

Tuesday, 1:30-3:30, Moot Court Room 1005 (Osgoode), York University.

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies, California State University, East Bay “The Culture of Conquest and the Doctrine of Discovery: The US as Colonial Settler State” (A roundtable discussion of Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s An Indigenous People’s History of the United States chaired by Chaired by Lee Maracle (University of Toronto) and featuring commentary from Boyd Cothran (History, York), Bonita Lawrence (Equity Studies, York) and Victoria Freeman (History, York)


October 27: Discussion of Paper

2Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 2:00-4:00pm, Room 764, Kaneff Tower (Robarts Centre)

A pre-circulated paper by Brenda Child, Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, “My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks”

November 10: Presentation

Tuesday, 2:00-4:00, Room 749, Kaneff Tower (Robarts Centre), York University

A Presentation by researches and staff of First Story Toronto on their project “Talking Toronto Treaties: A Multi-Partner Collaboration”