Writing the First peoples of the Americas: Quebec, Florida, Amazonia, the Caribbean

Winthrop-King Institute International Conference

5-7 April 2023 

All times are in US Eastern Time

WEDNESDAY, 5 APRIL

3.00-4.30 PM - Diffenbaugh 009

  • Opening Remarks by the Conference Organizers
  • Readings/Encounters: Joséphine Bacon, Juan Carlos Galeano, Rita Mestokosho, Martin Munro, Tina Osceola, Rodney Saint-Eloi, Jean Sioui.

4.30-6.00 Panels
Amazonia I - Diffenbaugh 128
Chair: Juan Carlos Galeano

  • Richard Price (College of William & Mary), From Enemies to Allies: Maroons and Indigenous Peoples on the Amazonian Fringe.
  • Mariana Aristizabal (Independent Researcher, Colombia), Post-covid Education in Leticia: Challenges and Implications

Language and Linguistics I - Diffenbaugh 009
Chair: Marie Bea

  • Antje Muntendam (FSU), Language Maintenance and Shift in Indigenous Communities in the Andes: The Case of Quechua and Spanish
  • Joanne Connauton (FSU), “I am a Salmon Person” – Indigenous Stories, Settler Legal Languages and Relationships with the More-Than-Human
  • Eden Gordon Stafstrom (FSU), Amplifying Indigenous Voices: The Role of Researchers in Language Revitalization Efforts

6.00-7.30 Welcome reception

6:30 8:00 screening: El río, by Juan Carlos Galeano at Diffenbaugh 009
The film will be introduced by Diego Mejia Prado

 

THURSDAY, 6 APRIL

9.00-10.30 Panels
Quebec I - Diffenbaugh 009
Chair: Mehdi Chalmers

  • Severine Rebourcet (College of Mount Saint Vincent), Environmental Activism and indigenous Hip-hop
  • Martin Munro (FSU), Listening to Joséphine Bacon
  • Joséphine Bacon- Readings

Amazonia II - Diffenbaugh 214
Chair: Juan Carlos Galeano

  • Corinne Fournier Kiss (University of Bern), Representations of the Amazonian Native in French Literature (from the 19th to the 21st Centuries)
  • Romona Bennett (University of Guyana), The circum-Roraima landscape, Indigenous cosmographies and women in Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale

10.30-10.45 Coffee

10.45-11.15 Author spotlight: Norma Dunning reading from her work - Diffenbaugh 009

11.15 -12.45 Panels
Caribbean - Diffenbaugh 009
Chair: Martin Munro

  • Pierre-Yves Boissau (Université de Toulouse), Revenir au pays: évocation des morts ou descente aux enfers?
  • Erika Serrato (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Petroglyph as Cipher: Unearthing Resistance in Francophone Caribbean literature
  • Isabel Bradley (Duke University), “Mais nos Dieux ont fait notre pais, & font croître notre Manioc”: Rooted Entanglements and Indigenous Resistance in the French Colonial Caribbean

Quebec II - Diffenbaugh 214
Chair: Timothy Lomeli

  • Cris Robu (St. Lawrence University), Joséphine Bacon: the chronotope of the journey in Je m'appelle humain (2000)
  • Bill Marshall (University of Stirling), First Nations Film-making in Quebec: from Documentary to the Horror Genre
  • Dorothea Heitsch (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Gabrielle Roy’s Indigenous Heritage: Nature, Spirituality, and First Nation Culture in Street of Riches

12.45-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30 Keynotes - Diffenbaugh 009
Chair: Juan Carlos Galeano

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  • Rafael Chanchari Pizuri, (Formabiap, Peru) El buen vivir” is Harmony with the Earth
  • Jeremy Narby (Amazonian projects coordinator, Nouvelle Planète), Writing about Amazonian knowledge

3.30-3.45 Coffee

3.45-4.15 Author spotlight: Jean Sioui, reading from his work - Diffenbaugh 009

4.15-5.45 Keynotes Diffenbaugh 009
Chair: Juan Carlos Galeano

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  • Miguel Rocha Vivas (Universidad Javeriana), Amazonian Indigenous Contemporary Oralitures
  • Jorge Marcone (Rutgers Univeristy), Boom and Bust: Amazonian Literatures and Resilience in 20th-Century Peru

5.45-7.00 Reception

FRIDAY, 7 APRIL

9.00-10.30 Panels

Breaking Silences: Cultural Transmission in Indigenous Women’s Writing from Quebec - Student Services Building 203

Chair: Ioana Pribiag

  • Isabella Huberman (University of Toronto), Beavers, Dams and Voices in Okinum by Émilie Monnet
  • Ioana Pribiag (University of Minnesota), Paradoxes of Fragmentation in Naomi Fontaine’s Kuessipan
  • Tania Grégoire (Université Sainte-Anne), La traversée de l'archipel : la poétique du mouvement et sa portée décoloniale dans Nanimissuat.Île tonnerre de Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
  • Miléna Santoro (Georgetown University), Indigenous Teaching: The Transmission Imperative in the Works of Naomi Fontaine

Florida - Student Services Building 218
Chair: Andrew Frank

  • Adam Beauchamp (FSU), Dispossession along the Archival Frontier: The Structure and Process of Settler Colonialism in Nineteenth-century Florida
  • Brad Dixon (University of Memphis), Making the Case Against Colonialism: Indigenous Power and the “Trials” of Florida and Virginia, 1600-1625
  • Denise Bossy (University of North Florida), Writing the Mocama History of French Fort Caroline

10.30-10.45 Coffee

10.45-11.15 Author spotlight: Rita Mestokosho reading from her work - Student Services Building 203

11.15-12.45 Panels

Language and Linguistics II - Student Services Building 218
Chair: Gavin Byrd

  • Antje Muntendam, Laura Gil, & Gabbi Isgar (FSU), Language contact in Santiago del Estero, Argentina: questions in Quichua
  • Carolina Gonzalez (FSU), Degrees of Remoteness: The Grounding of Verbal Tense in Memory, Culture, and Human Experience of Nature in the Languages of the Americas

Amazonia III - Student Services Building 203
Chair: Juan Carlos Galeano

  • Alexis Finet (Vanderbilt University), Are Amazonian Realities Translatable in Text?
  • Virginia Machado (FSU), A Eurocentric vision on the Amazon and its people: then and now
  • Amber Courtemanche-Vargas (Florida State University), Respeto como la salvación de los seres humanos: la relación recíproca entre los humanos y la naturaleza demostrado en White Gold: Diary of a Rubbercutter in the amazon
  • Laura Parces (Florida State University) Observations of the Contemporary Material Culture of Amazonian Indigenous Communities.

Geographies - Student Services Building 214

Chair: Andrew Frank

  • Tyler McCreary (FSU), Fire! Indigenous Oral History and the Memory of Recurrent Patterns of Colonial Displacement
  • Dean Michael (FSU), Water and Sand: The Colorado River Compact, Parker Dam, and Chemehuevi Erasure

12.45-3.00 Lunch and Visit to Mission San Luis

3.00-4.00 Keynotes - Mission San Luis - Mission Room

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  • Sally Price (Independent Researcher, Florida), The Shifting Landscape of Indigenous Art

4.00-4.45 Coffee

4.45-6:15 Keynotes - Mission San Luis - Mission Room
Chair: Andrew Frank

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  • Jessica R. Cattelino (UCLA), Sovereign-Ties: Seminole Water Governance and the Everglades
  • Alejandra Dubcovsky (UC Riverside), Writing the lives of Native Women in the Early South.

6.15-7:45 Closing reception: Open mike session—readings by authors and readers