Campus Roundtable: Indigenous Transnational Identities in Northern Virginia (second of two events)

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST
Merten 1202

Please join us for an in person campus roundtable on Tribal Identities, Past and Present. The event will feature four presentations and what promises to be a dynamic discussion.

Learn more about how this event fits into the project, "IndigenoUs Northern Virginia," funded by the Office of the Provost below.

Opening remarks by Sharnnia Artis (Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer) and Joan Bristol (History/Art History)

Moderator: 

Gabrielle Tayac (Piscataway; Associate Professor, History and Art History)

Panelists:

Marcela Ardaya (Quechua/Guarani)

Yanina Almannce (Quechua)

Diego Velasco (Maya Ixil)

*translation by Marisela Rumberg

 

IndigenoUs Northern Virginia: Activating Local and Diasporic Native Identities at Mason, generously funded by an ARIE Seed Grant, brings the Mason student body into contact with site-specific and community-based indigenous knowledge and history to activate a too-often submerged Native American presence in our region. For it is the case that from the ground up, on Doeg and Piscataway ancient lands to the centuries present, intertribal American Indian population to the dynamic diasporic Latin American indigenous communities, Northern Virginia is a Native place. 

For our first phase, we launched a Summer Institute to bring together Mason undergraduate researchers and community knowledge holders through a three-week round of field experiences. Now, for our second phase, we are bringing knowledge holders to campus to participate in roundtables open to the entire Mason community. Roundtable participants will engage in conversations based on questions developed with two undergraduate history classes. A first roundtable was held on October 26.

The second roundtable features four panelists who will interact with questions developed by Joan Bristol's Survey of Colonial Latin American class. The panel includes leaders from the International Mayan League, Marcela Ardaya (Quechua/Guarani), and Yanina Almannce (Quechua).

 

The Center for Humanities Research is one of Mason's five transdisciplinary centers, jointly sponsored by the Provost's Office and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.