Friday, September 19 | 10:15 AM – 4:15 PM
Transpacific Indigeneities Symposium
Location: Howard Thurman Center 205
Please join us on September 19 for a one-day symposium on transpacific Indigenous studies. Guest speakers Quynh Nhu Le, Bayley J. Marquez, Tiara Na’puti, and Erin Suzuki will present their research across a range of Indigenous geographies in Native America, the Pacific Islands, and Asia.
Schedule
9:30-10:00 Breakfast & Coffee
10:00-10:15 Welcome
10:15-11:15 Dr. Quynh Nhu Le (University of South Florida)
Title TBA
11:30-12:30 Dr. Bayley J. Marquez (University of Maryland)
“Pacific Currents: Industrial Education and the Assumed Death of the Native”
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 Dr. Tiara Na’puti (UC Irvine)
“From the Ryukyu to Mariana Islands: Care & Indigeneities Across Archipelagoes”
3:15-4:15 Dr. Erin Suzuki
Title TBA
Co-sponsored by: American Studies, BU Center for the Humanities, English, History, African American & Black Diaspora Studies, Archaeology, History of Art & Architecture, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, CAS Associate Dean for D&I, and CAS Rapid D&I Innovation Fund
