Join special guests and artists from In the Heart of the Beast, Open Eye Theatre, and Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop in a conversation that celebrates the transformative potential of puppetry and its ability to bring communities together.

Berkant Caglar will talk about how limiting the public visibility of queer dissent and its rightful activism are emerging as an important political problem for the Turkish state. 

Forthcoming

Heather Randell will speak about how mothers and daughters experience and respond to displacement due to the construction of the Belo Monte Dam in the Brazilian Amazon.

Julie Pelletier will offer an an analysis of the MDP in Indigenous Development approach as well as a brief discussion of projects undertaken by MDP student development practitioners, offering a different look at development and development practitioners. 

Kriti Budhiraja will examine questions of access and inclusion in higher education through an account of caste privilege.

Tracey Deutsch and Denike Pike will share their findings after three years of mobilizing humanistic public engagement to increase universities’ capacities for racial and decolonial justice. 

A presentation by Christopher Carmona (author and Refusing to Forget project) where he will talk about racial violence exploded in the South following Reconstruction, focusing on the Texas Rangers spreading state-sanctioned terror and violence along the Mexico-U.S. border for decades.

Bruce Braun will talk about the conditions under which many First Nations in British Columbia have embraced forestry as decolonial strategy and consider what such an analysis might offer to a politics of solidarity.

Panelists will discuss projects focused on the archives around boarding schools in the United States, archival reclamation and reading strategies in contemporary Indigenous art, the shifting meaning of archival texts over a lengthy Plains ledger art research project, and seemingly non-literary texts.