April 25th & 26th, 2024
Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies will host its inaugural symposium on Thursday, April 25th and 26th at Bard College. The symposium includes workshops, lectures, and discussions centered around Dr. Beth Piatote’s (Nez Perce enrolled Colville Confederated Tribes) brilliant play Antíkoni, and adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone.
Dr. Beth Piatote’s play Antíkoni is from her collection, The Beadworkers and was written in part while in residence as a fellow at bard Graduate Center. Inspired by this work’s themes of possession, belonging, and inheritance, the Center for Indigenous Studies has invited speakers to discuss tribal preservation, NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act), and the universality of values that run through both Sophocles’ Antigone and Piatote’s adaptation.
April 25th:
Opening Keyote, “Antíkoni and the Question of Adaptation” with Dr. Beth Piatote, 2:00-3:30PM
Staged Reading with Kahelelani and Ciko Sidzumo, co-directed by Jack Ferver, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance and Brandi Norton, Curator of Public Programming for Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies 4:30-5:30PM
“Possession, Belongings and Inheritance: Stockbridge-Munsee Community’s Approach to NAGPRA” with Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee Community), 6:00-7:00PM
April 26th:
“Antíkoni in a Settler Classroom on Kumeyaay Land: Storytelling ‘In the Meantime’ to Imagine “Beyond’ It” with Dr. Julie Burelle, 9:15-10:45AM
“Antíkoni as Public History”, with Dr. Laurie Arnold (Sinixt Band of the Colville Confederated Tribes), 11:00-12:00PM
Lecture from Dr. Sailakshmi Ramgopal, Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, 1:15-2:30PM
Lecture from Amy Pistone and Tyler Archer, 2:45-4:00PM
Closing Keynote: “Between the Heart and Horizon Line: Culturally Responsive Care in Collection Management” with Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf (Hiraacá, Nu’eta, and Sosore, ancestral Apsáalooke and Nʉmʉnʉʉ)