Spring Celebration March 10-12 Focused on Racial Justice

Ethnic Studies Spring Celebration
Ethnic Studies Spring Celebration

Wednesday, March 10, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
"What Is Indigenous Sovereignty, and Why Does It Matter Now?"
Zoom https://go.unl.edu/iessc310

Panelists:
-Dr. Margaret Huettl, Native American Studies and History
-Jessica Shoemaker, J.D., Nebraska College of Law
-Dr. Colette Yellow Robe, Student Support Services
-Dr. Tom Gannon, Native American Studies and English

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Thursday, March 11, 5:00 pm
"Attack of the Fifty-Foot (Lakota) Woman"
Zoom https://go.unl.edu/iessc311

Tiffany Midge is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and was raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest.

She is the recipient of a 2020 Eliza So Fellowship, a 2019 Pushcart Prize, the Kenyon Review Earthworks Indigenous Poetry Prize, a Western Heritage Award, the Diane Decorah Memorial Poetry Award, and a 2019 Simons Public Humanities fellowship. Her 2019 memoir Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's (University of Nebraska Press) was a notable book pick for Lit Hub, Poets & Writers Magazine, Library Journal, Kirkus, She Reads, and more. She's been featured on CBC Radio's Unreserved, Live Wire, Bitch Media's Popaganda, Jana Schmieding's Woman of Size, Native America Calling, and Wyoming Public Radio.

A former humor columnist, Midge holds an MFA from the University of Idaho and has taught composition and creative writing at Northwest Indian College. She aspires to be the Distinguished Writer in Residence for Seattle's Space Needle.

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Friday, March 12, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
"Social Justice and Intellectual Allyship: When the Culture You Research or Teach Is Not Your Own"
Zoom https://go.unl.edu/iessc312

Panelists:
-Dr. Patrick Jones, African American Studies and History
-Dr. Alice Kang, African Studies and Political Science
-Dr. Trey Andrews, U.S. Latinx Studies and Psychology
-Dr. Luis Rosa, U.S. Latinx and Latin American Studies and Modern Languages

More details at: https://ethnicstudies.unl.edu/