Colloquia and Public Programs
From 2002 to 2007, the McNickle Center entered into a partnership with the thirteen Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) universities, dedicated toward constructing a nationally-recognized, innovative, graduate program in American Indian Studies. Each year, the CIC and McNickle Center collaborated on graduate student programming (conferences, seminars, and workshops), a national conference, and offer graduate student fellowships as well as a CIC faculty fellowship. Check this link to CIC-AIS Reports.
Seminar in American Indian Studies 2008-2009
In fall 2008 the D'Arcy McNickle Center launched a new Seminar Series in American Indian Studies. Each seminar features scholarly discussion of papers based on work-in-progress. Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are encouraged to plan to attend and to circulate news of this forum to colleagues. The Seminar meets from 4:00-5:30 p.m. at the Newberry Library, Towner Fellow's Lounge. Additional information will be forthcoming closer to the date of each seminar. Interested parties should contact Scott Stevens at stevenss@newberry.org.
Past seminars
July 20, 2009, 6pm–7:30pm, Poetry Performance by the Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Team, Moccasins and Microphones. The Spoken Word Team is a group of indigenous youth writers who are nationally recognized for their performances of poetry that incorporates Native languages and philosophies. In 2008, the two team captains placed first and second respectively in the Native American Student Art Competition sponsored by the US Office of Indian Education. In 2009, SFIS students won six of nine possible prizes in this same national contest. The Santa Fe Indian School is a flagship school in Native education that is owned and operated by the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico as a sovereign territory. The student body includes youth from these 19 Pueblo communities and also has significant populations of Navajo and Apache students.
May 14, 2009, LeAnne Howe, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, "My Life after, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and other fantastic tales from the Choctaw!"
February 26, 2009, Scott Stevens, Director, D'Arcy McNickle Center, "Bodies of Evidence: Inuit Encounters and the Autoptic Imaginary."
December 9, 2008 , Jessica Cattelino, University of California Los Angeles, "One Hamburger at a Time": Revisiting the State-Society Divide with the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Hard Rock International".