
Indigenous Print Cultures, Media, and Literatures đ
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 âIndigenous Print Cultures, Media, and Literaturesâ 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 MĂŒller-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). âCarrying Our Ancestors Home: The Importance of Storytelling, Digital Projects, and Centering Tribal Voicesâ
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): âThe Twentieth-Century Hawaiian-Language Newspapersâ
Christopher Pexa (U of Minnesota). ââBringing the Language Togetherâ: OchĂ©ti Ć akĂłwiĆ Pasts and Futures in the Iapi Oaye (The Word Carrier) Newsletterâ
Philip Round (U of Iowa): âThe Role of Indigenous Languages in the Production of Native Texts/Periodicals at the End of the Nineteenth Centuryâ
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), âThe Demosthenes of White Earth: Theodore Beaulieu, The Progress, and the Recovery of an Indigenous Intellectual Traditionâ
Jill Doerfler (U of Minnesota, Duluth), ââA Few Honest Wordsâ: Writing for the Anishinaabeg Today in the Twenty-first Centuryâ
David Stirrup (U of Kent), ââIndian Curiosityâ: Re-presenting 19th-Century Ojibwe Survivance in 21st-Century Art and Dramaâ
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 LarrĂ© (UniversitĂ© Bordeaux-Montaigne), âA Magazine not only About Indians, but Mainly by Indians: Native Representations in the Carlisle Publications at the Beginning of the 20th Centuryâ
Frank Newton (U of Mainz), âIndigenous Dialogues: Early 20th Century Native American Discourse in Boarding School Publicationsâ
Jane Griffith (Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada), âNineteenth Century Printing Programs and Indian Boarding Schools: What Archival Newspapers Reveal About Settler Colonialism Todayâ (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), âLittle Chahta News Bird: Biskinik and Twitter as Sovereign Spacesâ
RenĂ© Dietrich (KU EichstĂ€tt-Ingolstadt), âThis Land and All my Relations: Podcasts and the Indigenous Digital Mediascapeâ
Dallas Hunt (U of British Columbia). âThe Archive in Conflict: The Contours of Resource Extraction Literatures in Canadaâ
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), ââWhat the Curious Want to Knowâ: Ora Eddleman Reed Advising Land Development and Rejecting Racial Stereotypes in Indian Territoryâ
Cristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth U), âGender and the Editors of the Indian Boarding School Pressâ
Miranda Johnson (U of Otago, New Zealand), âIndigenous Writing, Indigenous Rights: Activisms in the Post-War South Pacificâ
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 6
Progressive Era Indigenous Periodicals and Magazines
Chair: Axel SchÀfer (U of Mainz)
Jonathan Radocay (UC Davis), âCalifornia Indian Paper Routes: Winnemem Wintu Futures in Progressive-Era Periodicalsâ
Kelly Wisecup (Northwestern University), âSimon Pokagon and Periodical Networksâ
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), âIndigenous Printscapes: Media Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Indian Territoryâ
Frank Kelderman (U of Louisville), âChildrenâs Pages, Indigenous Writing: Reframing Labor, Learning, and Leisure, 1880-1913â
Mark Rifkin (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), âIndians Gone ‘Wild’: The Politics of Ethnographic Form in Zitkala-Ć aâs 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: âIndigenous Periodicals: American Indian Newspapers and Magazines, 1880-1930â
19:00-23:00 Dinner at âStrausswirtschaft Peter Dohm, Mainzâ (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), âCanoeing the Whale: Fred Grahamâs Te Waiata o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwaat the Burke Museum(s)â
Birgit DĂ€wes (Europa-UniversitĂ€t Flensburg), âRethinking the Archive: Indigenous Museums, Temporality, and Representationâ
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)