June 25 – Kanienkehaka: the Mohawk People,Christian Missions, and Native Survivance 🗓

June 25 – Kanienkehaka: the Mohawk People,Christian Missions, and Native Survivance 🗓

Events, Lectures, News

Prof. Laura Stevens (U Tulsa)

June 25, 2018, 12 p.m.–2 p.m. (c.t.), Philosophicum I, P 5

 

This lecture will provide an introduction to the Mohawk People, who called themselves “Kanienkehaka,” or “People of the Flint.“ The Easternmost tribe of the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee confederacy, the Mohawks were powerful and pivotal figures in the complex and violent landscape of colonial America. After considering some of their history and customs, this lecture will focus on a visit of 3 Mohawk and 1 Mahican ambassadors to London in 1710. An important public event that shaped English attitudes to Native Americans for years to come, this visit also generated a variety of literature and encouraged English missionary efforts to the Mohawk Nation. We will conclude by considering the importance of Mohawk diplomacy, mobility, and adaptability to what Native author Gerald Vizenor has called “Native survivance“ in the twenty-first century.

June 28 – Urban Ecologies 🗓

June 28 – Urban Ecologies 🗓

Events, Lectures, News

Prof. Alan Lessoff (Illinois State University)

June 28, 2018, 6–8 p.m. (c.t.), Philosophicum I, P 15

 

In recent years, an environmental perspective on urban history has been transforming both urban and environmental history, by emphasizing the city as an especially intense form of human interaction with nature, rather than a site distinct from or opposed to nature. This session considers the variety of new perspectives on both cities and the environment that emerge when one researches cities as features within and influences upon the environment.

For more information see the poster.

June 21 – March Madness, Mascots, and Milkshake Ducks: A Social Psychological Perspective on Reactions to Sister Jean 🗓

June 21 – March Madness, Mascots, and Milkshake Ducks: A Social Psychological Perspective on Reactions to Sister Jean 🗓

Lectures, Lunch Lectures, News

Scott P. King (Shenandoah University, USA)

June 21, 2018, 1-2.30 p.m., 02.102 (Philo II)

 

Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, a 98-year-old nun and team chaplain for Loyola University Chicago, became a sensation in both social and traditional media during her school’s underdog run to the 2018 USA collegiate men’s basketball tournament semifinals. In this presentation, I examine her rise in popularity, and subsequent backlash to that popularity, through the lens of social psychological theories on aging and stereotypes, using Twitter as a basis for qualitative analysis.

Scott King is Associate Professor of Psychology at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, USA and Visiting Lecturer in the Obama Institute at JGU Mainz.

 

You can download the poster for this talk here.

June 20 – California’s Counterculture Turns 180 Degrees South: Obsessively Documenting Drop-Outs While Saving the Planet 🗓

June 20 – California’s Counterculture Turns 180 Degrees South: Obsessively Documenting Drop-Outs While Saving the Planet 🗓

General, Lectures, News

Prof. Marcus Reisenleitner (York U)

June 20, 2018, 4 p.m.–6 p.m. (c.t.), Philosophicum II, 00-212

 

When President Trump announced a reduction of protected federal land in two of Utah’s national monuments, clothing outfitter Patagonia, protested, changing their homepage to a black-and-white motto “This Land is Your Land?” and joining a lawsuit against the president. The move continues the privately held company’s tradition of fighting for environmental causes. Its founder, Yvon Chouinard, distinguished himself as a documentary filmmaker with Mountain of Storms (1968) in a way similar to Bruce Brown’s father of surfing documentaries, The Endless Summer (1966). Both documentaries feature young male Californian drop-outs travelling to remote locations of natural beauty with little regard for the geopolitics of the time, setting the tone for a tradition of documenting the often politically naïve, individualistic and rebellious reactions to suburban America’s mainstream and pursuing a vague countercultural notion of escaping consumer culture while piggybacking on American imperialism’s opening up routes to remote locations.

The talk discusses the reverberations of these documentaries’ environmental and geopolitical imaginaries in two recent engagements with the tradition: Chouinard‘s 180º South: Conquerors of the Useless (2010) and William Finnegan‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (2015).

July 9-12 – ADDITIONAL COURSE OFFER 🗓

July 9-12 – ADDITIONAL COURSE OFFER 🗓

Events, News, Workshops

Additional Course Offer – Summer Term 2018

for M.A./M.Ed. and advanced B.A./B.Ed. students
Cultural Studies IV and V

For course registration and further information, please contact Dr. Sonja Georgi.

Interdisciplinary Workshop

“History of United States Indian Law and Policy”
Prof. Lindsay G. Robertson (University of Oklahoma)
Faculty Director, Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy
Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law
July 9-12, P 108

This course will trace the development and political and cultural impact of British colonial and United States policy towards indigenous peoples in North America from the Seventeenth Century through the present day. Among other topics, we will explore Treaty-making, Indian Removal, the Reservation System, late-Nineteenth Century Assimilation and Allotment, mid-Twentieth Century Indian Reorganization, and modern Tribal Self-Determination.

You can find the workshop poster here.