The Peggy and Jack Baskin Presidential Chair of Feminist Studies, in collaboration with the Indigenous Border/lands Collective, present “Indigenous Border/lands,” an exploration of the border/lands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, scholars and activists across the Americas.

4:00pm
Aa‘a Mat Tipaay Ak’wee, Bringing Her/Voice Back to the Land: Incomplete Repatriations in The Autobiography of Delfina Cuero  – Theresa Gregor, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies, California State University Long Beach. Dr. Gregor is Kumeyaay from the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel and also Yoéme. Her research focuses on California American Indian women, sovereignty, literary and cultural repatriation, and tribal cultural resiliency and revitalization.

6:00 pm
Abolish Border Imperialism: Migration, Racial Capitalism and Empire – Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2022). Harsha Walia is a migrant justice activist whose work addresses how current migrant and refugee crises are the inevitable outcomes of conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change, generating mass dispossession worldwide.

This event is free and open to the public.

For anyone who would like to attend the event virtually, please register here.

On Friday, March 10, interdisciplinary scholars from across the country will gather for a day-long, closed-session symposium to consider the concept of borders and the borderlands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples across the Americas. Presentations across several symposium themes will result in publication of an Indigenous Borderlands journal in 2024. Please visit the Feminist Studies Department website for more info on the Friday symposium schedule. If interested in attending any or all of the panels, please contact Lisa Supple (lsupple@ucsc.edu). Seating is limited.