Day Five: Friday, June 11th, 2021

event Zoom links emailed to registered participants daily

08:30-10:00 PST / 09:30-11:00 MST/CST / 10:30-12:00 CDT / 11:30-13:00 EST / 17:30-19:00 CEST:

“Because we need each other”: A Roundtable on Black-Indigenous Solidarities

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*ASL interpretation will be available. A recording of this event will be posted after the conference.*

Introduction: Dr. Kristina Bidwell

Speakers:

Tasha Beeds Dr. Otoniya J Okot Bitek Erica Violet Lee Dr. Barbara McNeil

Facilitator: Smokii Sumac

This event, organized alongside CACLALS as an annual roundtable event for Indigenous literatures, taking place since 2007, is meant to both to respond to specific events of 2020, a year in which the connections between Black and Indigenous struggles against white supremacy and  settler colonialism have become even more apparent. 

10:30 PST / 11:30 MST/CST / 12:30 CDT / 13:30 EST / 18:30 CEST:

Break: Optional Zoom visiting space and/or screen break

11:00-12:30 PST / 12:00-13:30 MST/CST / 13:00-14:30 CDT / 14:00-15:30 EST /  20:00-21:30 CEST:

Closing Session: Why Indigenous Literatures Scholars Matter

Dallas Hunt, “Big Picture Questions about Indigenous Literary Art and Its Study”

Johannah Bird, Daniel Coleman, Kaitlin Debicki, Maggie Ward, and Taif Zuhair, “Why Indigenous Literatures Scholars Matter”

 Closing Prayer with Elder Gilman Cardinal

Post-conference Zoom visiting space available