Biopolitics and Beyond: New Directions in Indigenous Studies, lecture and panel discussion

From climate change, to pipeline protests and environmental justice movements, to conceptualizations of kinship with living and non-living beings, emerging scholarship from Indigenous Studies is broadening visions of how to live in the twenty-first century.

This keynote lecture and panel discussion features scholars whose work is pushing the boundaries of science and technology studies through questions such as, how have the biopolitics of settler societies foreclosed possible conceptions of family, health, and environmental resilience? How do Indigenous understandings of human-animal relations and human-land relations challenge existing systems of governance? And how are science and technology being used to limit or strengthen Native sovereignty under twenty-first century multiculturalism?

Poster art: The Indigenous Studies Program would like to thank Elizabeth LaPensée, whose art (from the 2017 video game, Thunderbird Strike) is featured in the event poster. She is Anishinaabe from Baawaating with relations at Bay Mills Indian Community and Métis. She is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. Discover more about this award-winning artist on her website.

This event is free and open to the public.