Indigenous Perspectives on Decolonization
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 · 2 - 3:30 PM
Reposted from our partners, the Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies. Original Post to RSVP can be found here.
The program for Arab and Muslim American Studies is hosting its first event of the academic year: Indigenous Perspectives on Decolonization.
During the event, three indigenous speakers from diverse communities
discuss their perspective on indigenous identity and politics,
decolonization practices, and solidarity. Our speakers include Dr. Ashley Minner (Lumbee Tribe NC); Dr. Dana Olwan (Palestinian); and Dr. Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Kanaka Maoli). Complete bios follow. Complete Webex information below.
Ashley
Minner is a community-based visual artist from Baltimore and an
enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She received her
MFA (’11) and MA (’07) in Community Arts from Maryland Institute College
of Art, and her PhD (’20) in American Studies from University of
Maryland College Park. Ashley recently worked as a professor of the
practice and folklorist in the Department of American Studies at the
University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she also served as
director of the minor in Public Humanities. She currently works as a
curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American in
Washington, D.C.
Dana Olwan
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender
Studies at Syracuse University. Her work is located at the nexus of
feminist theorizations of gender violence, transnational solidarities,
and critical feminist pedagogies. She is the recipient of a Mellon
Emerging Faculty Leader Award from the Institute of Citizens and
Scholars, a Future Minority Studies postdoctoral fellowship, and a
Palestinian American Research Council grant. Her work has appeared in
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Formations, the
Journal of Settler Colonial Studies, American Quarterly, and Feral
Feminisms. She is co-editor with Margaret A. Pappano of Muslim
Mothering: Local and Global Histories, Theories, and Practices (Demeter
Press, 2016). Her first book Gender Violence and The Transnational
Politics of the Honor Crime was published by Ohio State University Press
in 2021. She is currently working on a new project that is centered on
marriage and divorce laws and citizenship practices in the Arab world,
with a specific focus on Jordan and women’s access to personal status
rights. She teaches courses on feminist theory, comparative settler
colonialisms, and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa.
She is co-editor (with Chandra Talpade Mohanty) of Comparative Feminist
Studies from Palgrave Mcmillan.
Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Kanaka Maoli) is an Associate Professor and Chair of
the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa where she teaches courses on Indigenous
feminisms and queer theory. She is author of Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance and co-editor of Native Studies Keywords. She
has published articles on Hawaiian sexuality, diaspora, hip-hop, film,
and feminisms in Hawaiʻi and Oceania. She has received fellowships from
Yale University, the University of Oregon, and the Ford Foundation. Her
articles have appeared in American Quarterly, The Drama Review, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies. She is currently co-editing a special issue of Amerasia on
Ocean Feminisms and is working on a new book on the queer history of
Hawai’i and an oral history project with LGBTQ kupuna (elders).
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