Join us at the annual Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium on April 16, 2021. The symposium is a unique opportunity to present your work and connect with Indigenous Studies and Indigenous scholars at Michigan State University and beyond. This year’s keynote speaker, Dr. Blaire Topash-Caldwell (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi), is a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at the Newberry and the first archivist at Pokagon Band. Dr. Topash-Caldwell supports and contributes to contemporary Anishinaabe thought, art, and activist movements by opening and recontextualizing archives.

Presenting at the symposium is a requirement for receiving a Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Studies.

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William A Johnsen is Professor and Editor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of Violence and Modernism. Ibsen, Joyce and Woolf (2003) and many articles on modern Irish, British, European literature and theory. He is the current editor of Contagion, the journal of The Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) as well as two book series, Studies in Violence Mimesis and Culture (SVMC) and Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory (BMT), all published at MSU Press.