Native American & Indigenous Studies
Native American & Indigenous Studies
// Presented by the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts
The purpose of this seminar is to build greater community and conversation among researchers at UT who are working–some tangentially and others centrally–on issues in Native American and Indigenous Studies, either in content, methods, or activism. The seminar draws widely on methodological and theoretical issues involving gender, sexuality, sovereignty, settler colonialism, epistemology, and environmentality. We ask questions such as: what is NAIS? What are its key methods? How does it illuminate multiple fields? What is the future of NAIS? By drawing on broad methodological readings and interdisciplinary applications we wish to demonstrate to UT admininstration and other researchers that questions of indigeneity are (or should be) at the heart of our academic inquiry, that the core issues of NAIS are at the heart of many of the fields of research represented at the University. In this seminar, we hope to bring together a vast interdisciplinary network of scholars invested in the presence of NAIS at UTK.
