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HUNAP Annual Lecture 2024

Paulina Alexis Poster

Please save the date for HUNAP’s 2024 Annual Lecture featuring actress Paulina Alexis! 

This event is made possible with support from the Clara E. and John H. Ware Jr. Foundation.

Spring 2024 Indigenous Focused Courses

Check out our course page for a list of Spring 2024 courses that are taught by members of HUNAP’s faculty board and courses that cover Indigenous topics as their primary focus.

Upcoming Events

2024 Apr 04

HUNAP Annual Lecture

6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museum

Please save the date for HUNAP’s 2024 Annual Lecture featuring actress Paulina Alexis! 

Save the Date Poster

Featured Courses, Spring 2024

ENGLISH 297CI: Critical Indigenous Theory

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024
Professor: Chris Pexa
W - 9:00am to 11:45am

This seminar gives a broad overview of key theoretical interventions in the emergent, international, and interdisciplinary field of Critical Indigenous Studies. Our exploration will begin with the emergence of American Indian Studies as an academic discipline in the 1970s and 80s, tracking its development over the next twenty years into increasingly global articulations of Indigenous studies and, more recently, of critical Indigenous studies as “a knowledge/power domain whereby scholars operationalize Indigenous knowledges to develop... Read more about ENGLISH 297CI: Critical Indigenous Theory

ENGLISH 187ND: Indigenous Literatures of the Other-than-Human

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024
Professor: Christopher Pexa
M, W - 12:00pm to 1:15pm

“Indians are an invention,” declares an unnamed hunter in Gerald Vizenor’s (White Earth Ojibwe) 1978 novel, Bearheart. The hunter’s point, as Vizenor has explained in interviews and elsewhere, is not that Indigenous peoples don’t exist, but that the term “Indian” is a colonial fiction or shorthand that captures, essentializes, and thus erases a vast diversity of Indigenous lives and peoples. This course begins from the contention that other categories, and maybe most consequentially that of “nature,” have not only... Read more about ENGLISH 187ND: Indigenous Literatures of the Other-than-Human

EMR 121/DEV 502/EDU A102: Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation Building II

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2023
Professor: Eric Henson
T - 4:30pm to 6:30pm

This community based research course focuses on some of the major issues Native American Indian tribes and nations face in the 21st century. It provides in-depth, hands-on exposure to native development issues, including: sovereignty, economic development, constitutional reform, leadership, health and social welfare, tribal finances, land and water rights, culture and language, religious freedom, and education. In particular, the course emphasizes problem definition, client relationships, and designing and completing a research project for... Read more about EMR 121/DEV 502/EDU A102: Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation Building II
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Fellowships, Scholarships and Grants

HUNAP Indigenous Health Seminar Series

The HUNAP Indigenous Health & Well-Being Colloquium is a series of lectures and discussions highlighting the latest research and policies related to Native and Indigenous health issues. This seminar was established by HUNAP Faculty Director Joseph P. Gone and is co-sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health & Social Medicine. See recordings of all past events from this series here

 

Most Recent Event:

Professor Teresa LaFromboise - The Potential for School as Sacred Spaces in American Indian/AK Native Adolescent Suicide Prevention

Recorded October 26, 2023