Recent Conferences

Convened by Pekka Hämäläinen, Professor of American History, Oxford University, and Ned Blackhawk, Professor of American History & American Studies, Yale University. 

Seventeen members from the YGSNA community presented at the “Transnational Futures in Indigenous Histories” conference at Oxford from June 24-25.  

Graduate students and faculty presented their scholarship on indigenous histories from across North America, South America, and Europe.  Presentations and interdisciplinary discussions ranged from indigenous: activism, anthropology, bio-habitats, boarding schools, (de)colonial archives, de-colonized methodologies, medicine, and museum studies.

On June 26, Coll Thrush led a tour of the British Museum.

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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Beinecke Library

Friday and Saturday, September 16-17, 2011
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Conference Video (Streaming Live)

Sponsored by
Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, Departments of Anthropology, English, and History, Committee on Canadian Studies, European Studies Council, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Center for Comparative Research, Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Ezra Stiles College, and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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