Ancestral Futures: Indigenous Cardinal Relations, October 4-6, 2024, Harvard University

This symposium will gather together international First Nations/Indigenous cultural advocates to critically analyze our positionalities and relationalities within our respective un/settler-colonial nation-states and on inter/intra/national homelands, considering work over the last four decades and what is required to strengthen our collective Ancestral Futures.

The symposium is facilitated by Professor Brenda L Croft (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra Peoples, Northern Territory, Australia), 2024 Gough Whitlam & Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, with support from the Harvard University Australian Studies Committee, the Departments of History of Art & Architecture; Art, Film & Visual Studies, Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Creative Australia.

 

 

PANEL 1

Shelly C. Lowe – in conversation
Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities, US, Navajo People

Patsy Phillips – presentation
Title: Path to Venice: Native American Art at the Biennale
Director, Institute of American Indian Arts/Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, US, Cherokee Nation

Professor Nancy Marie Mithlo – presentation
Data-Driven: What American Indian Spectatorship Can Tell Us About Art and Social Change
Professor, UCLA Departments of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies, Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe

Moderator: Professor Brenda L Croft
2024 Gough Whitlam & Malcolm Fraser Visiting Chair of Australian Studies, Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra Peoples: Anglo-Australia/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish heritage

 

sites.harvard.edu/ancestral-futures-symposium/program-panel-recordings/