Schedule
Sunday, September 17, 2023
All day
Arrival & Hotel Check in
Monday, September 18, 2023
Tilden Room, MLK Student Union
welcome
9:30 – 10:15 a.m.
Welcome & Introductions
Panel 1
10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Forced Migrations
Chair: Amy Kerner
Comments: Tamara Polyakova & Jorge Ramirez-Lopez

Chechesh Kudachinova, Mannheim University
Moving Bodies, Mobile Lives: Framing Forced Indigenous Mobilities and the Production of Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Siberia

Rachel Nolan, Boston University
From Genocide to Drought: Indigenous (Maya) Migration from and Deportation to Guatemala, 1980s to the Present
break
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
Panel 2
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Negotiating Colonialism
Chair: Sören Urbansky
Comments: Ian Halter & Maria Momzikova

Colton Brandau, University of California, Davis
“Curiosity Drove Us to Examine It More Closely”: Qikertarmiut Memories of Movement under Russian Colonialism, 1784-1851

Lea Kröner, Freie Universität Berlin
Mobility and Agency: Indigenous Missionaries on the North Pacific Coast during the Nineteenth Century
break
2:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
Panel 3
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Fighting for Sovereignty
Chair: Akasemi Newsome
Comments: Chenxi Luo & Stefan Benz

Hillary MacKinlay, Georgetown University
Indigenous Actors, Imperial Politics, and the Birth of the Kingdom of Fiji, 1867–1871

Sandra Sánchez; Yale University
Deportation and Blood Quantum: Tribal Border Crossing Rights, 1928–1940
Dinner
6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Workshop Dinner
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Panel 4
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Connecting to the Homeland
Chair: Nino Vallen
Comments: Colton Brandau & Rachel Nolan

Chenxi Luo, Washington University, St. Louis
When Distance Turned into Disputes: Manchu Migration, Translocal Homeland, and Slavery-Related Disputes in Early Qing China, 1600–1722

Jorge Ramirez-Lopez, UCLA
How Indigenous Migrants from Southern Mexico Made Oaxacalifornia
break
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 p.m.
Coffee Break
Panel 5
11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Indigenous Knowledge Producers
Chair: Holly Guise
Comments: Sandra Sánchez & Hillary MacKinlay

Ian Halter, University of Oregon
Shores of Knowledge, Waves of Ignorance: Settler Agnotologies and Alaska Natives’ (Epistemic) Mobilities, 1860 to 1897

Tamara Polyakova, University of Eastern Finland
‘“Russian” Cold. Fighting for Karelia, 1918-22
break
12:45. – 2:00 p.m.
Lunch
Panel6
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Storytelling Migration
Chair: Fabio Santos
Comments: Lea Kroener & Chechesh Kudachinova

Maria Momzikova, University of Tartu
How do Indigenous Myths represent Colonial Relations? Russian vs Nganasan Supernatural Beings in Nganasan Mythological Narratives

Stefan Benz, University of Bonn
(Re-)Negotiating Indigenous Presence and Arrival: Indigenous Hip Hop Claims the US American City
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Travel Day
4 a.m.
Meet in the Hotel Lobby; airport shuttle departs at 4:15 a.m.
Depart at 7 a.m. on Alaska Airlines AS1145; arrive Seattle 09:18 a.m.
Depart at 11:20 a.m. on Alaska Airlines AS0063; arrive Sitka at 12:45 p.m.
Transfer to Hotel with hotel shuttle
Check-in Hotel: Westmark
Dinner
4:30 p.m.
Beak Restaurant, 2 Lincoln St, Sitka
Film Screening
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Indigenous Resistance: Now and Then
Dialogue with director of the film Joe Yates and Taylor Strelevitz from the Alaska Humanities Forum, and Sitka Native youth.
Sheet’ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi Tribal Community House (200 Katlian St., Sitka, AK 99835)
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Wildflour Bakery , 327 Seward St., Sitka,
Museum visit
10:00 a.m.
Sitka Historical Society Museum
Gather in front of the hotel to walk to Sitka Historical Society Museum; tour starts at 10:30 a.m.
lunch
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Sitka Pel’Meni
Museum Visit
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Sheldon Jackson Museum
Tour with Jacqueline Fernandez-Hamberg
City Tour
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Walking Tour with local guide Rebecca Poulson
Start at Sitka Historical Society Museum (in front of the library); Russian Bishop’s House, St. Michael’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Castle Hill
Dinner
6 p.m.
Mangiare Restaurant, 118 Lincoln St, Sitka
Friday, September 22, 2023
Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Speakers Room, Westmark Hotel
Lecture
9.30 – 11:00 a.m.
Alaska Natives and the Fur Trade: Exchanges, Conservation strategies, and Mobilities
Talk by Ryan Jones
Speakers Room, Westmark Hotel
Bus Tour
11:20 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Birds, Bears, and Barnacles Tour
Visit to Raptor Center, Fortress of the Bear, and Sitka Sound Science Center
Walking Tour
3:30 – 5 p.m.
Sitka National Park
1 mile Totem Trail (Depending on conditions)
Dinner
6 p.m.
Bayview Pub, 407 Lincoln St, Sitka
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Wildflour Bakery , 327 Seward St., Sitka,
Travel to Seattle
10:45 a.m.
Hotel shuttle to Airport
1:14 p.m.
Flight to Seattle; arrival at 4:55 p.m.
5:30 p.m.
Check in Arctic Hotel
Dinner
7:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Closing Discussion
Polar Bar, Arctic Hotel
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Return home