Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
June 14, 2022, 6pm–7:30pm (s.t.)., online via Zoom. Access the event here.
Meeting-ID: 894 5748 9483
Code: 185247
During the last decade, the U.S. has reinforced its diplomatic, economic, and military approach to the Asia-Pacific region. In accordance with the foreign policy rhetoric of partners like Japan and Australia, the Trump administration eventually published the U.S. “Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision” (FOIP) in 2019. Since then, FOIP and its principles serve as guideline for U.S. regional policies in the Indo-Pacific, informed by its international agenda of promoting free navigation in maritime spaces and adherence to the existing international rules-based order.
Whereas some critics argue that the implementation of FOIP was a reactionary move to contain China’s ambitions in the region, the prevalent narrative in the discourse on regional security suggests that the rhetorical shift in U.S. diplomacy toward a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” should be considered in the wider context of globalization and the complex mechanisms of economic and national security interests.
Based on his professional experiences as academic instructor and former Captain of the U.S. Navy, Wade Turvold explains the principles and interests implicated by the U.S. “Free and Open Indo- Pacific” vision, and puts it into perspective with contemporary dynamics of the region
Wade Turvold is a retired U.S. Navy Captain and current faculty member of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. He graduated with Merit from the U.S. Naval Academy (MD) in 1989 (B.Sc.), and with Distinction from the U.S. Naval War College (RI) in 2000 (M.A.). Mr. Turvold’s expertise covers issues of maritime security, strategy, national security and military operations. He served two educational assignments at the U.S. Army War College and Defence Academy (UK), and has extensive experience in the fields of security, operation and command as Naval Flight Officer. He completed numerous deployments throughout his career to the Indo-Pacific region, the Middle East, and to Europe, and participated in combat operations in Somalia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Philippines.
Date: July 6-9, 2022 Location: Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz Hosted by the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies and the Humanities Research Center at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Venues: Atrium Maximum, Campus JGU Helmholtz-Institute Mainz (HIM) Faculty Room, Philosophicum I
We are delighted to welcome you to Mainz in July this year for the “Indigenous Print Cultures, Media, and Literatures” Symposium, co-organized by the Obama Institute at JGU and the Humanities Research Center at VCU. Please find the tentative program below or download it here. Additionally, we are happy to provide maps and directions to help you, e.g., get from the hotel to the venues. Please find the maps below the tentative program or click here to download the maps. Public transportation in Mainz will cost you 1,50€ per short distance trip.
We will upload a separate document including WiFi access, setting up speaker/participant accounts, as well current Covid-19 regulations and restrictions soon. If you have any questions, please reach out to Anette Vollrath (anette.vollrath@uni-mainz.de).
If you would like to take a look at the hotels’ websites, please feel free to go to Hotel Königshof or Hotel Hammer.
Tentative Program
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 (Atrium Maximum, Campus JGU)
16:00 Registration
17:00 Welcome Reception:
Vice-Presidents for Research JGU, Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller-Stach
Vice President for Research and Innovation, VCU, Dr. P. Srirama Rao
Director of the Obama Institute, Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung
Symposium Organizers, Profs. Cristina Stanciu, Oliver Scheiding
17:45 In-person Keynote Lecture
Chair: Mark Rifkin (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Mishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Professor of Gender and American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angele). “Carrying Our Ancestors Home: The Importance of Storytelling, Digital Projects, and Centering Tribal Voices”
18:30 Virtual Keynote Lecture
Gerald Vizenor (UC Berkeley, Emeritus), “Waiting for Wovoka: Scenes from a Novel of Good Cheer and Native Hand Puppet Parleys”
19:00 Reception (Atrium Maximum)
Thursday, July 7, 2022 (Venue: Helmholtz-Institute Mainz (HMI))
9:00-10:30 Session 1
Indigenous Print Cultures and Language
Chair: Jutta Ernst (U of Mainz)
Noenoe Silva (UH Manoa): “The Twentieth-Century Hawaiian-Language Newspapers”
Christopher Pexa (U of Minnesota). “‘Bringing the Language Together’: Ochéti Šakówiŋ Pasts and Futures in the Iapi Oaye (The Word Carrier) Newsletter”
Philip Round (U of Iowa): “The Role of Indigenous Languages in the Production of Native Texts/Periodicals at the End of the Nineteenth Century”
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2
A Lasting Legacy of Periodicals and Politics
Chair: Mark Rifkin (UNC Greensboro)
Adam Spry (Emerson College), “The Demosthenes of White Earth: Theodore Beaulieu, The Progress, and the Recovery of an Indigenous Intellectual Tradition”
Jill Doerfler (U of Minnesota, Duluth), “‘A Few Honest Words’: Writing for the Anishinaabeg Today in the Twenty-first Century”
David Stirrup (U of Kent), “‘Indian Curiosity’: Re-presenting 19th-Century Ojibwe Survivance in 21st-Century Art and Drama”
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:45-15:15 Session 3
Boarding School Publications
Chair: Cristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth U) and Frank Newton (U of Mainz)
Lionel Larré (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne), “A Magazine not only About Indians, but Mainly by Indians: Native Representations in the Carlisle Publications at the Beginning of the 20th Century”
Frank Newton (U of Mainz), “Indigenous Dialogues: Early 20th Century Native American Discourse in Boarding School Publications”
Jane Griffith (Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada), “Nineteenth Century Printing Programs and Indian Boarding Schools: What Archival Newspapers Reveal About Settler Colonialism Today” (Zoom)
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 4
Indigenous New Media and Literature
Chair: Philip Round (U of Iowa)
Bethany Hughes (U of Michigan), “Little Chahta News Bird: Biskinik and Twitter as Sovereign Spaces”
René Dietrich (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), “This Land and All my Relations: Podcasts and the Indigenous Digital Mediascape”
Dallas Hunt (U of British Columbia). “The Archive in Conflict: The Contours of Resource Extraction Literatures in Canada”
17:30-18:30 Keynote Lecture (Zoom)
Chair: Chadwick Allen (U of Washington)
Beth Piatote (UC Berkeley): “The Indigenous Archive and The Beadworkers: Stories“
19:15 Reception (City Hall, Mayor-Mainz)
Friday, July 8, 2022 (Venue: Helmholtz-Institute Mainz (HMI))
9:00-10:30 Session 5
Indigenous Writing, Rights, and Activism
Chair: Matt Bokovoy (U of Nebraska Press)
Cari M. Carpenter (West Virginia University), “‘What the Curious Want to Know’: Ora Eddleman Reed Advising Land Development and Rejecting Racial Stereotypes in Indian Territory”
Cristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth U), “Gender and the Editors of the Indian Boarding School Press”
Miranda Johnson (U of Otago, New Zealand), “Indigenous Writing, Indigenous Rights: Activisms in the Post-War South Pacific”
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 6
Progressive Era Indigenous Periodicals and Magazines
Chair: Axel Schäfer (U of Mainz)
Jonathan Radocay (UC Davis), “California Indian Paper Routes: Winnemem Wintu Futures in Progressive-Era Periodicals”
Kelly Wisecup (Northwestern University), “Simon Pokagon and Periodical Networks”
12:30-13:45 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 7
Indigenous Printscapes and Indigeneity
Chair: Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Kathryn Walkiewicz (UC, San Diego), “Indigenous Printscapes: Media Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Indian Territory”
Frank Kelderman (U of Louisville), “Children’s Pages, Indigenous Writing: Reframing Labor, Learning, and Leisure, 1880-1913”
Mark Rifkin (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), “Indians Gone ‘Wild’: The Politics of Ethnographic Form in Zitkala-Ša’s Stories”
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Session 8
Project Presentations: Indigenous Modernities
Chair: Chris Andersen (U of Alberta)
Kirby Brown (U of Oregon, Eugene), Co-editor of the Routledge Handbook to North American Indigenous Modernisms(2022)
Oliver Scheiding (U of Mainz), Editor of Anthology Project: “Indigenous Periodicals: American Indian Newspapers and Magazines, 1880-1930”
19:00-23:00 Dinner at “Strausswirtschaft Peter Dohm, Mainz” (Vinery Peter Dohm). Local transportation will be provided. http://winzerfamilie-peter-dhom.de
Saturday, July 9, 2022 (Venue: Faculty Room, Philosophicum I)
10-11:15 Session 9
Reassessing Indigenous Archives
Chair: Jill Doerfler (U of Minnesota, Duluth)
Chadwick Allen (U of Washington, Seattle), “Canoeing the Whale: Fred Graham’s Te Waiata o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwaat the Burke Museum(s)”
Birgit Däwes (Europa-Universität Flensburg), “Rethinking the Archive: Indigenous Museums, Temporality, and Representation”
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Final Discussion, Roundtable
Chadwick Allen, Cari Carpenter, Mishuana Goeman, Mark Rifkin, Philip Round, Oliver Scheiding, Kelly Wisecup
Optional: Guided City Tour / Gutenberg Museum and Library
Maps (Hotels, Campus, Venues)
Map 1: Mainz Central Station to Hotel Hammer / Hotel Königshof
Map 2: Mainz Central Station to Mainz University Campus
Map 3: Mainz University Campus and Symposium Venues
Fig. 1: Venues: Atrium Maximum (top left), Philosophicum I (top right), Helmholtz-Institute (bottom)
Academic Director, Narrative Medicine Program Columbia University, New York
May 24, 2022, 12-1 p.m., 02.102 (Philo II)
This talk offers an introduction to Narrative Medicine, as well as the concept of metagnosis as the revelation of a longstanding condition. This can occur when an individual is diagnosed with a condition such as ADHD or Asperger Syndrome which was previously present, but undiagnosed; it can also happen when diagnostic boundaries shift. How do these experiences change our knowledge? We will also discuss broader applications of the concept, and ways in which it illuminates the principles and practices of Narrative Medicine.
Danielle Spencer is the author of Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021) and co-author of Perkins- Prize-winning The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (OUP, 2017). Her research interests include retrospective diagnosis, contemporary film and bioethics, and healthcare pedagogy; her creative and scholarly work appears in diverse outlets, from Ploughshares to The Lancet. Formerly artist/musician David Byrne’s Art Director, Spencer holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. She is a 2019 MacDowell Fellow and a 2022 Yaddo Fellow.
The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies welcomes several internationally renowned scholars in the summer term of 2022. Please join us for their contributions to our course and research program!
May 9 2–4pm, P3, Philosophicum I
Imagined Pasts: Historical Thinking and Black Immigrants Herman L. Bennett, City University of New York
May 10 2–4pm, 01-6182–4pm, P5, Philosophicum I
Ethnic Formation Now and the Problem with the Past Herman L. Bennet, City University of New York
4–6pm, P 205, Philosophicum I
Visual Arts as Research: Examples from the Studio Ruth Stanford, Georgia State University, Atlanta
May 16 2-4pm, P3, Philosophicum I
Leaving America: Emigrant Culture When the Dream Is Over Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
May 17 10am–12pm, P106, Philosophicum I
Juanita Harrison’s “Great, Wide, Beautiful World” Cathryn Halverson, Minot State University, North Dakota
2–4pm, P5, Philosophicum I
On the Puertoricanization of U.S. Higher Education Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
May 24 12–2pm, P207, Philosophicum I
From Lemonade to Homecoming: Beyoncé’s Spatial Politics Patricia Coloma Peñate, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
4–6pm, P205, Philosophicum I
The Phenomenology of Heinrich Sisstrunk: A Portrait of a First Settler in the New World Patricia Coloma Peñate, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
June 13 2–4pm, P3, Philosophicum I
The Muslims Are (Always) Coming!: How Religion as a Category of Analysis Complicates American Immigration Narratives Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
June 14 2–4pm, P5, Philosophicum I
“It don’t Gitmo better than this”: Why Guantanamo Bay May Be the Best Worst Place for Understanding Transnational American Studies Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Oliver Scheiding has been awarded the Gutenberg Research College fellowship “Zielgerade” to finish his book project Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Culture, which is under contract with Wiley-Blackwell. The fellowship includes funding for a one-year substitute position for the 2022–2023 academic year.
The book offers an original and new study of the ways changing print/media businesses, technologies and audiences shaped the emergence of writing in North America. The book sheds new light on reading the literatures of the early Americas as a multilayered network of co-agencies, attachments, and afterlives. In doing so, it provides a new model of literary agency and offers an altered analytical attitude recognizing different cross-temporal comparisons of transnational connections in spaces of colonial encounters.
An online symposium on Zoom (use meeting code 207060)
April 29, 2022
The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies organizes a symposium on the heritage of Colonial Germany and the presence of people of African descent in German society. This trilateral investigation ranges from Germany to Africa, America and back, addresses the German engagement in the slavery trade and the institution of slavery, the violent effects of colonization still felt on site and visible in the spoils on display in the museums, and the systemic discrimination of Black people. Fellows of the Obama Institute, former and present colleagues will present aspects of their current research involving the relations between Namibia and Germany, the racist treatment of Africans, African Americans and Afro-Germans and the legacy of German colonialism in the Pacific.
We welcome Ruth Stanford (Georgia State University, USA), Heike Raphael-Hernandez (University of Würzburg, Germany), Herman Bennett (City University of New York, USA), Pia Wiegmink (University of Bonn, Germany) and a student presentation by Ahngeli Shivam (University of Mainz, Germany).
During the last decade, the U.S. has reinforced its diplomatic, economic, and military approach to the Asia-Pacific region. In accordance with the foreign policy rhetoric of partners like Japan and Australia, the Trump administration eventually published the U.S. “Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision” (FOIP) in 2019. Since then, FOIP and its principles serve as guideline for U.S. regional policies in the Indo-Pacific, informed by its international agenda of promoting free navigation in maritime spaces and adherence to the existing international rules-based order.
