BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ical@bgc.bard.edu//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Bard Graduate Center X-WR-CALDESC: X-WR-RELCALID:f X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_974@www.bgc.bard.edu DTSTAMP:20261007T162504Z DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Experience at World’s Fairs is a conversation featur ing Lee D. Baker\, Professor of Cultural Anthropology\, Sociology\, and Af rican and African American Studies at Duke University\; Laura Graham\, Pro fessor of Anthropology at The University of Iowa\; Russell Potter\, Profes sor of English and Media Studies at Rhode Island College and Aaron Glass\, curator of The Story Box: Franz Boas\, George Hunt and the Making of Anth ropology.Lee D. Baker is Professor of Cultural Anthropology\, Sociology\, and African and African American Studies at Duke University. He received h is B.S. from Portland State University and doctorate in anthropology from Temple University. He has been a resident fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bo is Institute\, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History\, and Johns Hopkins’s Institute for Global Studies among many others. His books include From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race 1 896-1954 (1998)\, Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience (2003) \, and Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture (2010). Aaron Glass is an Associate Professor at Bard Graduate Center focusing on various asp ects of First Nations visual art and material culture\, media\, and perfor mance on the Northwest Coast of North America\, both historically and toda y. Themes recurring in his work include colonialism and indigenous moderni ties\, cultural brokerage and translation\, the politics of intercultural exchange and display\, discourses of tradition and heritage management\, a nd cultural and intellectual property. His dissertation\, along with a com panion film\, In Search of the Hamat’sa: A Tale of Headhunting\, examines the ethnographic representation and performance history of the Hamat’sa or “Cannibal Dance” of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) of British Columbia. His Current projects include collaborating with the U’mista Cultural Centre t o restore and present Edward Curtis’s 1914 silent film\, In the Land of th e Head Hunters\, and to create a critical\, annotated\, digital edition of Franz Boas’s pioneering 1897 monograph on the Kwakwaka’wakw culture.Laura R. Graham is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Her re search focuses on Indigenous agency and the politics of representation amo ng Indigenous peoples of Lowland South America. She has carried out field research among the A’uwẽ-Xavante of central Brazil since 1981 and among Wa yuu peoples of Venezuela and Colombia since 2006. Graham has written exten sively on Indigenous speech and forms of self-representation in national a nd international arenas\, including ethnographic spectacle and use of new media technologies. Graham is author of the award-winning book\, Performin g Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Xavante of Central Brazil (1 995\; Portuguese edition with original field recordings 2018) and co-edito r of Performing Indigeneity: Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences (2014) and Language and Social Justice in Practice (2018). Russell Potter is an American writer and Professor of English and Media Studies at Rhode Island College. His teaching areas are Victorian literature and visual cu lture\, history of arctic exploration\, history of Media\, Hip-hop culture \, linguistics\, literary theory. His books include Spectacular Vernacular s: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism (1995) and Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture\, 1818-1875 (2007)\, as well as a nove l\, Pyg: The Memoirs of a Learned Pig (2011). He is editor of the Arctic B ook Review and has also worked as a consultant on\, and appears in\, the N ova documentary Arctic Passage.We are also pleased to extend complimentary need-based community tickets by request to all ticketed events. To learn more\, please email public.programs@bgc.bard.edu. Leading support for Publ ic Programs at Bard Graduate Center comes from Gregory Soros and other gen erous donors. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T200000 SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Indigenous Experience at World's Fairs END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR