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HUNAP Annual Lecture 2024

HUNAP Annual Lecture Poster

This event does not require registration; see further details below.

Join the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP) for a conversation with Paulina Alexis. Alexis is an actress, artist, and proud member of the Stoney tribe of the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation in central Alberta, Canada, where she was raised. She is best known for her role as Willie Jack in the series Reservation Dogs.

This will be the fourth annual HUNAP Lecture; each talk is intended to elevate and promote the sophistication of Native ideas, arts, literature, and culture. Last year’s lecture was delivered by author Tommy Orange, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. 

Free admission, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on 480 Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm.

This event will be livestreamed. To tune in, click on this link at 6pm on Thursday, April 4. A recording of the livestream will be available on this page after the event. 

Limited complimentary parking is available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge. 

This event was made possible with support from The Clara E. and John H. Ware Jr. Foundation; ArtsThursdays, a university-wide initiative supported by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA); The Canada Program; and the Harvard Art Museums.

The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register@harvard.edu at least 48 hours in advance.

 

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

Featured Courses, Spring 2024

EDU A101/ DEV 501M: Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation-Building I

Semester: 

Winter

Offered: 

2024
Professors: Joseph Kalt and Angela Riley
M-F - 10:00am to 4:30pm

This course examines the challenges that contemporary Native American tribes and nations face as they endeavor to rebuild their communities, strengthen their cultures, and support their citizens. The range of issues that Native leaders and policymakers confront is wide and encompasses political sovereignty, economic development, constitutional reform, cultural promotion, land and water rights, religious freedom, health and social welfare, and education. Because the challenges are broad and comprehensive, the course... Read more about EDU A101/ DEV 501M: Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation-Building I

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

ANTHRO 1900: Counseling as Colonization? Native American Encounters with the Clinical Psy-ences

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024
Professor: Joe Gone
M - 12:00pm to 2:45pm

American Indian, First Nations, and other Indigenous communities of the USA and Canada contend with disproportionately high rates of “psychiatric” distress. Many of these communities attribute this distress to their long colonial encounters with European settlers. Concurrently, throughout the 20th century, the disciplines and professions associated with mind, brain, and behavior (e.g., psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis) consolidated their authority and influence within mainstream society. These “psy-ences” promote their professional... Read more about ANTHRO 1900: Counseling as Colonization? Native American Encounters with the Clinical Psy-ences
More Courses

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