Join us for the Spring 2022 Engage Conference, where we will come together for a day of trainings, workshops and engaging conversation. Our guests will share ways of expressing the presence and agency of indigenous and African descended peoples in the wake of settler colonialism and slavery throughout the Americas.  

11:00AM Promoting Reciprocity with Local Ecosystems through Embodied Land Acknowledgements

A talk with Jean Luc Pierite

FPH Main Lecture Hall

Who are we as social actors in the local ecosystems which hold and sustain us? Building upon the practice of land acknowledgements, an embodied approach actively engages participants through personal expression. In this talk, Jean-Luc Pierite shares his own social interventions within this framework on the scale of protests, policies, and prototypes.

1:30PM Grazed Bodies (or How to Take Over the Archive) on zoom

A workshop by Bertha Bermúdez & Maite Bermúdez

Ideas on how to appropriate the space of the archive as a figure of knowledge through artistic creation. Rewriting the past from an Afro-Venezuelan perspective.

3:00PM Screening AS LONG AS THE RIVERS RUN (1970)

West Lecture Hall FPH

A film giving context to the fish-ins of the 1960s, highlighting the civil disobedience that led up to the landmark decision in U.S. v. Washington.

4:30PM Clyde Warrior and the Early Red Power Movement A talk with Paul McKenzie-Jones

West Lecture Hall FPH

McKenzie-Jones will explore the life of Clyde Warrior (Ponca), one of the founders of the Red Power Movement, and share important lessons about Clyde Warrior’s organizing for self- determination in the 1960s and its critical origins in student activism.

ALL DAY Introduction to Restorative Practices in the Classroom

A workshop for Faculty and Staff with Honeycomb Collective

Faculty/Staff Lounge FPH

This introductory training will provide faculty and staff with a fundamental understanding of the history of restorative practices in the United States, of the application of processes in the classroom, and interactive skill building around conflict navigation.