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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.

Register Here

Time: 4:00 pm

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

Time: 4:30pm

Place: Tull Auditorium, Emory Law School

The Carlos Museum and the Native American Indigenous Studies Initiative present the two-day Indigenous Food Sovereignty Symposium, inviting food historians, chefs, and ethnobotanists to campus to lead cooking demonstrations centered on Indigenous ingredients, foods, and contemporary reimagining of traditional dishes. Join Rob Kinneen (Alaska Native) and Nephi Craig (White Mountain Apache and Diné) for a day of cooking workshops on Saturday, November 9th, followed by a screening of the film Gather, and a Q&A led by Nephi Craig; then attend a panel discussion centered on Indigenous food sovereignty, moderated by Malinda Maynor Lowrey, Cahoon Family Professor of History, on Sunday, November 10th.

The symposium is made possible through the generous support of the Art Bridges Foundation and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative.

Cooking Demonstrations & Workshops Details
Time: Saturday, November 9 from 1 – 3 p.m., Chef Nephi Craig, REGISTER and 4 – 6 p.m., Chef Rob Kinneen, REGISTER
Place: Ackerman Hall | Level Three

Film Screening: Gather Details
Time: Saturday, November 9 | 7 p.m.
Place: Ackerman Hall | Level Three

Panel Discussion: Indigenous Food Sovereignty Details
Time: Sunday, November 10 | 2 p.m.
Place: Ackerman Hall | Level Three

On Friday, November 8, join Emory as it welcomes leaders, singers, and storytellers for the third annual Muscogee Teach-In. Program will include:

• Remarks by Emory and Muscogee leaders
• Muscogee hymn-singing
• Lecture-demonstration of Muscogee art and culture
• Stomp Dance

On October 17 and 18, Muscogee leader Ella Jean Hill traces her family’s history from the Trail of Tears to her grandfather’s allotment in central Oklahoma. In an astonishing one-woman play, she shares her story – the Native boarding school she fled on foot, her marriage to a young Bengali scholar, and the advocacy that became her life’s work. With On the Far End, a reference to the landmark Supreme Court opinion in McGirt v. Oklahoma that upheld the sovereignty of the Muscogee territories, Mary Kathryn Nagle, one of America’s leading playwrights (Sovereignty; Manahatta), weaves a deeply personal account of one family – her own mother-in-law’s – and a legacy of broken promises between nations.

 Content Advisory: strong language, mature themes and racial slurs/hate language

Emory Students can get free tickets. Register here

Times: Oct 17 and 18 @ 7:00pm

Place: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Theater Lab

From September 14 to December 15, the Carlos Museum will be exhibiting visual mediums from Greek, Maya and Moche traditions.

“Among the many ancient cultures that produced painted pottery, the Greeks in the Mediterranean, the Maya in Central America, and the Moche of northern Peru stand out for their terracotta vessels enlivened with narrative imagery. Representing heroic adventures, divine encounters, and legendary events, these decorated ceramics provided a dynamic means of storytelling and social engagement.

By juxtaposing Greek, Maya, and Moche traditions, this exhibition invites conversation about the ways in which three unrelated cultures visualized their society, myths, and cosmos through their pottery. Who made and used these vessels? Which stories did they depict, and why? How did artists shape these accounts? Could images convey more than words? Each vessel displayed in this exhibition is a “picture world,” full of expressive possibility.?”

“Complementing the Maya ceramics is a room within the exhibition of oil paintings made by five contemporary Maya artists from the highlands in Guatemala, to the south of where the Maya pottery in the exhibition derives. Their paintings are part of a contemporary art form developed by Maya artists in the 1930s but are in many ways connected to the creation of painted pottery, wall murals, and books by Maya artists in earlier times. They too are “picture worlds,” narrating stories about spirituality, ceremonies, ancestors, health, and government. They also comment upon the histories and futures of their communities and the larger region, including the armed conflict and genocide against Maya people in Guatemala from 1960 to 1996, and contemporary topics like immigration, human rights abuses, Indigenous rights, and celebration of Indigenous identity. The Tz’utujil and Kaqchikel Maya painters featured in the exhibition are among the more than eight million Maya people in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, as well as in diaspora across the world, including in Atlanta, who speak one of approximately thirty-one Maya languages today.”

For more information

Time: Sept 14 – Dec 15

Place: 3rd floor of Carlos Museum