Another year has come to an end and another group of students will be bidding Emory fare well as they transition to their next steps in life. Join NAIS in celebrating their journeys through Emory’s college and the legacy they leave behind in NAIS’s third annual Celebration of Graduates! Lunch will be held afterwards in Brooks Commons (Cannon Chapel).

Time: 11am-1pm

Place: Cannon Chapel

The Etowah site today is a state park, but 650 years ago it was an Indigenous city with impressive monuments and beautiful art. Adam King, research associate professor at the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, will reconstruct the city’s 500-year history using the imagery its inhabitants created: motifs on pottery, designs on decorated shell and copper, and the arrangement of buildings and monuments. Unlike the usual stuff of archaeology that tells us what people did, imagery is intentionally created to communicate ideas. In this talk anchored in imagery, King explores what Etowah’s inhabitants understood about themselves and their city. King will pull from the exhibition This Land Calls Us Home, on view at the Schatten Gallery, illustrating how ancient images continue to communicate about Indigenous belief, identity, and place.

This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Grace Welch Blanton Lecture Fund. It is free and open to the public, and registration is required.

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Time: 6:30-7:30pm

Place: Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

Colorful works by Indigenous artists await Atlanta audiences and the Emory community with the new Emory Libraries exhibition “This Land Calls Us Home: Indigenous Relationships with Southeastern Homelands.” The exhibition, which opened Jan. 27 in the Schatten Gallery on Level 3 of Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, features the work of 25 contemporary Native American artists and designers. More than 50 pieces are on display that express Southeastern Indigenous heritage, including textiles, photographs, paintings, intricate woven baskets and more. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Read More from the Emory News Center.

The Sounding Spirit Singing School will be held on April 4 and 5, 2025, at the Pitts Theology Library at Emory University. A celebration of the Sounding Spirit Digital Library, the Singing School will feature volumes from this groundbreaking collection of over 1,250 volumes of southern sacred vernacular song published between 1850 and 1925. The convening takes inspiration from its namesake, the singing school. Since the eighteenth century, singing schools have served communities and congregations exploring music pedagogy and practice independent of mainstream educational contexts. Often taught by a visiting instructor, singing schools teach people how to sing together while also serving as important social events for wide-ranging communities. The Sounding Spirit Singing School embraces these historical legacies and invites singers, scholars, and practitioners to learn and sing sacred music together.

The following schedule for the Spring 2025 Sounding Spirit Singing School includes workshops, community singing sessions, scholarly roundtables, and food and fellowship in the spirit of the “dinner on the grounds” tradition. Local singers, worshippers, practitioners, and scholars are welcome at all singing school sessions and evening singings listed in the Public Events section below. Additional workshops and sessions are closed to the public and listed in the full schedule. We hope to see you at one of our public-facing events in April!

Read More: Here

Time: 8:30 – 10:30 am

Place: Pitts Theology Library

On April 1, Emory will be screening the short film “Lumbeeland,” with special guest Film Director Montana Cypress (Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida). Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) wrote and executive produced Lumbeeland, which is inspired by her research into the drug economy for her second book and her lifetime living and working in her community. Director Montana Cypress and Dr. Lowery will also screen two of Montana’s award-winning short films, The Red Orchid (the first film produced in the Miccosukee language) and An Ode to Leviticus (starting legendary actors Gary Farmer and Tantoo Cardinal), and have a discussion about community-driven filmmaking and authentic portrayals of Native people in the southeast. This event is held in collaboration with Agnes Scott College.

Time: Tuesday, April 1 at 6:00 pm

Place: Oxford Road Building Presentation Room

On April 18, join us for a screening of the film La rebelión de las flores (The Rebellion of Flowers, 2022, directed by María Vásquez, script by Moira Millán), with English subtitles. After the film screening, we will have a round talbe discussion with award-winning Mapuche author, Moira Millan—the film’s main protagonist—about the struggle of the Mapuche people in Argentina to defend their ancestral homelands. In the Mapuche tradition, Millan is a weychafe (guardian, defender, warrior) and the founder of the Movement of Indigenous Women for Buen Vivir or Living Well, which advocates a way of life in harmony with nature. Millan is the author of: The Train to Oblivion. A Novel (2023) and Terricidio (2024, the murder of Mother Earth). This event is sponsored by NAISI, The Department of English, Creative Writing Program, The Department of Film and Media, the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry,

Time: 4-6pm

Place: White Hall, 102

Songwriter Quinn Christopherson will be coming to Emory to perform at the Performing Arts Studio and Ackerman Hall.

Dr. Senungetuk and Suhr-Sytsma’s courses are Indigenous Musics of the Arctic (MUS376W/ANT 376W) and Indigenous Literature Since 1850 (ENG 271W). The courses are part of the Learning through Inclusive Collaboration (LINC) program at Emory. This event is presented by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies in collaboration with the LINC program.

Learn more about Quinn here.

Time & Place:

11:30 am – Performing Arts Studio

2:30 pm – Ackerman Hall

On March 25, the Center for Healthcare History and Policy and the Center NAIS will be hosting Ryan Emanuel (Lumbee) as he presents on Indigenous Environmental Justice.

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Time: 4:00 pm

Place: Margaret Anne Rollins Room & Plaza, R. Randall Rollins Bldg.