Arts and Events Calendar

USC faculty and graduate students host a new Native American Studies workshop series this semester, drawing together academics who work on Native American material.

The workshop will meet on selected Fridays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the American Studies Conference Room.

Attendees are encouraged to read the papers before attending. In future, the speakers’ essays will be published online prior to the meetings. For the first session, please email one of the workshop coordinators (Jonathan Berliner at berliner@usc.edu or Tok Thompson at thompst@earthlink.net) for a copy of the essay.

February 5
“Disease, Culture and Transnationalism in the Americas”
John Carlos Rowe, USC Associates Chair in Humanities and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity

February 12
“Native Americans and the Confederate States of America: A Model for Indigenous/State Relations in the 21st Century”
Walter Williams, professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies and History, USC

March 5
“Written in the Birch Bark: The Linguistic-Material Worldmaking of Simon Pokagon”
Jonathan Berliner, lecturer in English, USC

March 26
“Alternative Images? Urban Indians as Reel Indians”
Laura Fugikawa, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity, USC

April 2
“Speaking with the Elder Brothers: Interspecial Communication in Native American Traditions”
Tok Thompson, assistant professor of teaching in Anthropology, USC

April 16
“Telling Paula Starr”
Joan Weibel-Orlando, associate professor emerita of Anthropology, USC; and Paula Starr, executive director of the Southern California Indian Centers

April 23
“Those Long, Lonely Nights at the Diner: Specificity of Home and Place in Arigon Starr’s The Red Road”
Carolyn Dunn, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity, USC