During the 19th century, the American School of Anthropology enfolded Native peoples into their histories, claiming knowledge about and artifacts of these cultures as their rightful inheritance and property. Highlighting several cases, this talk describes how similar enfoldments continue today—despite most contemporary scientists' explicit rejection of hierarchical ideas of race. This talk highlights extra-legal strategies that can address tensions between indigenous peoples and genome scientists and their facilitators—ethicists, lawyers, and policy makers.

To celebrate the launch of LGBTQ Studies at UT, the program will host a symposium January 25 & 26, 2018 in CLA 1.302B. The symposium’s theme is "Queer Camaraderie" and will feature presentations and performances by Rod Ferguson & Lyndon Gill; Ernesto Martínez & Julie Minich; Josh Guzman & Chad Bennett; Xandra Ibarra (La Chica Boom) & Laura Gutiérrez; and Kim TallBear and Ann Cvetkovich. Symposium begins Thursday Jan 25, 6pm-9pm, and continues Jan 26 from 9am-6pm.

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 […]

Abstract: In this talk, I examine the caretaking of relations that I see embodied in several recent social movements led by women, two-spirit, and queer people. #IdleNoMore, #NoDAPL, and #BlackLivesMatter are commonly understood as environmental and/or social justice/anti-racist movements that call settler-colonial states, including the US and Canada, to make good on their treaty promises or […]