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INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S SERIES TO TAKE PLACE AT OBERLIN COLLEGE DURING APRIL
MARCH 21, 2001--Oberlin College will present the 2001 Indigenous Women's Series April 3, 12, 19, and 23.
"The series was created to increase institutional awareness and promote visibility of indigenous American Studies in the curriculum," says kt shorb, the Asian-Pacific-American community coordinator at the College's Multicultural Resource Center. "It will address issues surrounding the history of U.S. and European imperialism in the Americas and the Pacific Islands."
Sponsors for the Indigenous Women's Series include:
- the Multicultural Resource Center;
- the American Indian Council;
- the Women's Resource Center;
- Zami;
- the Sexual Assault Support Team;
- the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Union;
- La Alianza Latina;
- the Asian American Alliance;
- Shansi;
- the Office of the President;
- the Dean of the College;
- the Dean of Students;
- the Hewlett Committee;
- the History Department;
- Pablo Mitchell; and
- the Creative Writing Department.
All of the lectures are free and open to the public.
The lecture schedule, with a biography of each speaker, follows:
"Sovereignty
of the Hawaiian People"
Haunani-Kay
Trask
Tuesday,
April 3 at 4:30 P.M. in King 306
Haunani-Kay Trask is professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i and a member of Ka Lahui Hawai'i, a native Hawaiian initiative for self-government. She is the author of many books, including Eros and Power: The Promise of Feminist Theory; Light in the Crevice Never Seen; and From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii'i. Trask also is the executive producer and script-writer of the award-winning documentary film, Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Surviving
the "Survivor" Mentality: Critical Appraisal of Pacific Islanders
in Popular Culture
Antoinette
Charfauros McDaniel
Thursday,
April 12 at 4:30 P.M. (Wilder 112)
Antoinette Charfauros McDaniel is a sociology instructor at Oberlin College. She currently is completing her Ph.D. at Yale University on the development and contingent professionalization of ethnic studies in the late 1980s. Charfauros is a board member of the Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education Association (APAHE), and has served on the board of the Pedagogy of the Oppressed Conference. Her talk will address the history of and ongoing struggles for Chamorro self-determination and the impact of Western imperialism in her native island of Guam as they relate to and inform the experiences of Chamorros in the continental U.S. The talk will contrast these struggles against what Charfauros contends is an emerging "survivalist" discourse which [mis]represents Pacific Islanders in popular culture.
Poetry
Reading
Chrystos
Thursday,
April 19 at 4:30 P.M. in King 306
Chrystos is a self-educated writer and artist. Her work as a Native (American) land and treaty rights activist has been widely recognized as an essential part of her writing. Chrystos was the winner of the 1994 Audre Lorde International Poetry Competition and received the Sappho Award of Distinction from the Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation in 1995. Her books of poetry include Not vanishing, Dream On, Fire power, Fugitive Colors, and In her I am. While on campus, Chrystos will present a writing workshop. This workshop is by reservation only. Contact aschulz@cs.oberlin.edu for more information.
"The
Color of Violence: Gendered Violence in
American
Indian Communities"
Andrea
Smith
Monday,
April 23 at 4:30 P.M. in Wilder 112
Andrea Smith, a research student at the University of California at Santa Cruz, is the coordinator for the Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment at Santa Cruz. She recently has been published in Meridians, and has served as a guest-editor for the American Indian Quarterly and Color Lines. Smith has organized many conferences addressing domestic violence, and has served as the chair of the Women of Color Caucus for the National Coalition against Domestic Violence.
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