
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 (Venue: Atrium Maximum)
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 Keynote Lectures
Chair: Cristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Mishuna Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Professor of Gender and American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)
âCarrying Our Ancestors Home: The Importance of Storytelling, Digital Projects, and Central Tribal Voicesâ
Gerald Vizenor (Professor Emeritus, American Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
âWaiting for Wovoka: Scenes from a Novel of Good Cheer and Native Hand Puppet Parleysâ (online)
19:00 Reception (Atrium Maximum)
Thursday, July 7, 2022 (Venue: Helmholtz-Institute)
9:00-10:30 Session 1
Indigenous Print Cultures and Language
Chair: Jutta Ernst (University of Mainz)
Noenoe Silva (UH Manoa): âThe Twentieth-Century Hawaiian-Language Newspapersâ
Christopher Pexa (University of Minnesota). ââBringing the Language Togetherâ: OchĂ©ti Ć akĂłwiĆ Pasts and Futures in the Iapi Oaye (The Word Carrier) Newsletterâ
Philip Round (University 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
The White Earth Nation: A Lasting Legacy of Periodicals and Politics
Chair: Mark Rifkin (UNC Greensboro)
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Adam Spry (Emerson College), âThe Demosthenes of White Earth: Theodore Beaulieu, The Progress, and the Recovery of an Indigenous Intellectual Traditionâ
Jill Doerfler (University of Minnesota, Duluth), ââA Few Honest Wordsâ: Writing for the Anishinaabeg Today in the Twenty-first Centuryâ
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:45-15:15 Session 3
Boarding School Publications
Chair: Cristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth University)
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 (University of Mainz), âIndigenous Dialogues: Early 20th Century Native American Discourse in Boarding School Publicationsâ
Jane Griffith (Ryerson/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
Chair: Philip Round (University of Iowa)
Bethany Hughes (University 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
Niigaanwewidam Sinclair (Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba), âThe 1764 Treaty of Niagara and the Shaking Tent: Anishinaabe Semiotics and the Spiritual Internetâ
17:30-18:30 Keynote Lecture (Zoom)
Chair: Chadwick Allen (University of Washington)
Beth Piatote (University of California, Berkeley)
“The Indigenous Archive and The Beadworkers: Stories“
19:15 Reception (City Hall, Mayor-Mainz)
Conference Venue: Helmholtz-Institute Mainz (HIM)
Friday, July 8, 2022 (Venue: Helmholtz-Institute)
9:00-10:30 Session 5
Indigenous Printscapes and Indigeneity
Chair: Padraig Kirward, Goldsmiths
Kathryn Walkiewicz (University of California, San Diego), âIndigenous Printscapes: Media Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Indian Territoryâ
Frank Kelderman (University of Kentucky), 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 a’s Storiesâ
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 6
Progressive Era Indigenous Periodicals and Magazines
Chair: Axel SchÀfer (University of Mainz)
Jonathan Radocay (University of California, Davis), âCalifornia Indian Paper Routes: Winnemem Wintu Futures in Progressive-Era Periodicalsâ
Chris Andersen (University of Alberta), tba
Kelly Wisecup (Northwestern University), âââSimon Pokagon and Periodical Networksâ
12:30-13:45 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 7
Indigenous Writing, Rights, and Activism
Chair: Matt Bokovoy, University 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 University), âNetworked Resistance: Native Women Writers and Editors in the Boarding School Pressâ
Miranda Johnson (University of Otago, New Zealand), âIndigenous Writing, Indigenous Rights: Activisms in the Post-War South Pacificâ
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Session 8
Project Presentations: Indigenous Modernities
Chair: Chris Andersen, University of Alberta
Kirby Brown (University of Oregon, Eugene), Co-editor of Routledge Handbook to North American Indigenous Modernisms (2022)
Ruth Mayer (University of Hannover), Co-editor of Modernity and the Periodical Press: Trans-Atlantic Mass Culture and the Avantgardes, 1880-1920 (Brill 2022)
Oliver Scheiding (University of Mainz), Editor of Anthology Project: âIndigenous Periodicals: American Indian Newspapers and Magazines, 1880-1930â
19:00-23:00 Dinner âStrauĂwirtschaft Weingut Dhom, Hechtsheimâ
Conference Venue: Faculty Room, Philosophicum I
Saturday, July 9, 2022 (Venue: Faculty Room, Philosophicum I)
9:00-11:00 Session 9
New Forms of Indigenous Writing
Chair: Jill Doerfler (University of Minnesota, Duluth)
Dallas Hunt (University of British Columbia), âKa mĂąyitĂŽtamihk: Reconfiguring Kinship Practices in Treaty Eight Territoryâ
David Stirrup (University of Kent), âArticles of a Treaty Made: Ojibwe Artists Reframing Nineteenth-Century Colonial Textsâ
Chadwick Allen (U of Washington, Seattle), âCanoeing the Whale: Fred Grahamâs Te Waiata o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa at the Burke Museum(s)â
Birgit DĂ€wes (Europa-UniversitĂ€t Flensburg), âRethinking the Archive: Indigenous Museums, Temporality, and Representationâ
11:0-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Final Discussion, Roundtable
Gerald Vizenor, Chadwick Allen, Cari Carpenter, Mark Rifkin, Philip Round, Kelly Wisecup, Oliver Scheiding
12:30-13:30 Lunch
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)