Program
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
@ 5 May 2026
Tuesday 3 November: ONLINE DAY
Note that there is no conference catering today
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13.00
13.30
14.00
PAUSE
15.00
15.30
16.00
17-45
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György Toth (University of Stirling),
“The Native American Rights Struggle Reaches the United Nations”
Tatiana Viallaneix (Université de Picardie Jules Verne),
“Indigenous Survivance and Agency Among Tribal Nations in Oklahoma: Creating Pathways for a Better Collective Future”
Nancy Mykoff (Utrecht University),
“Innovating Education in the Netherlands: Teaching and Learning with Indigenous Universities and Communities Across Turtle Island”
Elena Serrano Moya (University of Alcalá),
“Humour, Community Healing and Sovereignty: The Architecture of Indigenous Survivance in Reservation Dogs”
Kamelia Talebian Sedehi (University of Rome, La Sapienza),
“Cultural Memory, Testimony and Witnessing in A Pipe for February”
Linford D. Fisher (Brown University),
“Survivance, Futurity and the Long Shadow of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas”
AIW Business Meeting
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Wednesday 4 November
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9.30-
11.00
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Storytelling and Survivance
CHAIR:
Laura Jungblut (Europa Universität Flensburg), “Empowering Sámi Futurities: from jápmigoahtit to goahtit ”
Sonja Ross (independent researcher), “Storytelling from Orality to Writing in the Lense of 'Indigenous Futurism'”
Gabriela Jelenska (University of Warsaw), “I Look Back to Look Forward: The Trickster in New Native American Poetry”
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PAUSE |
POSTERS: Eliza Kiljanek (independent scholar), “From the Earth to the Sky, from the Past to the Future: Navajo (Diné) Weaving Continues”
Lisa Woldrich (University of Passau), “How do Indigenous peoples across North America adapt to the impacts of climate change on their livelihoods? A systematic map”
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11.30-
13.00
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Mapping and Memorialization
CHAIR:
Karolina Kwasna (University of the National Education Commission, Krakow), “Persisting Waters: Indigenous Hydrographies and Survivance in Seventeenth-Century New England Cartography”
Ewelina Feldman-Kolodziejuk (University of Bialystok), “Staging Survivance: Beothuk Women Colonial Archives, and Indigenous Presence in Stolen Sisters (2024) by Newfoundland playwright Leahdawn Helena”
Scott Manning Stevens (Syracuse University),
“Celebrating 250 Years of U.S. Independence while Forgetting the Sullivan Campaign Against the Haudenosaunee”
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LUNCH |
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14.30-
16.00
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Survivance in TV and Film
CHAIR:
Elzbieta Wilczynska (Adam Mickiewicz University), “Reservation Dogs and Tribalography: Transformative Paths to Native Adulthood”
Georges De Medts (Aix-Marseille University),”The Narrative of Survivance through 2024 Television Series Echo, Directed by Sydney Freeland”
Nicole Perry (Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland), “Drew Hayden Taylor's Practice of Survivance: The Example of Searching for Winnetou (2018)”
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PAUSE |
POSTERS |
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16.30-
18.30
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Environment and Activism
CHAIR:
Patrycja Badzinska (Jagiellonian University), “Indigenous Survivance and Water Injustice: The Diné Water Crisis in Historical and Future Perspective”
Baligh Ben Taleb (San Francisco State University), “Unbroken Ground: The Dann Sisters’ Battle Against Settler Power in Nevada”
William Bauer (University of California, Riverside), “The Knowledge Under the Aluminum Hard Hat: California Indian Loggers and Environmental Change in Northern California, 1945-1980”
Antonie Dvorakova (Anglia Ruskin University), “Contemporary Embodiments of Traditional Northern Cheyenne Worldviews”
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CONFERENCE DINNER |
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Thursday 5 November
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9.30-
11.00
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Fantasy and Futurism
CHAIR:
Sylwia Boroska-Szerszun (University of Bialystok), “Medievalism, Indigeneity, and Cultural Memory in Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry”
Weronika Laszkiewicz (University of Bialystok), “'To Imagine Otherwise': Reading Cherokee Survivance and Resurgence in Daniel Heath Justice's Kynship Chronicles”
Ece Ergin (University of Hamburg), Indigenous Futurisms in Graphic Narratives: Spatio-Temporal Sovereignty in Katherena Vermette's A Girl Called Echo Series”
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PAUSE |
POSTERS
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11.30-
13.00
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TEK and Food Sovereignty
CHAIR: Jason Edward Black
Krisztina Kodo (Kodolanyi University), “From Ancestral Knowledge to Future Worlds: Survivance as Relational Practice in Indigenous Futurities”
Julia Siepak (Guglielmo Marconi University of Rome), “Gardening for Resurgence: Industrial Farming and Indigenous Futurities in Diane Wilson's The Seed Keeper and Louise Erdrich's The Mighty Red ”
Zuzanna Kruk-Buchowska (Adam Mickiewicz University), “Seeds of Survivance: Innovation as a Continuation of Tradition in the Native American Food Sovereignty Movement in the U.S.”
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LUNCH |
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14.30-
16.00
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Music and Movement
CHAIR:
Sabina Sweta Sen-Podstawska (University of Silesia), “Survivance in Motion: Ceremony, Land, and Indigenous Future-Making through Embodied Practice”
Martin Hermansky (Charles University), “Pow wow Punk Rock: Survivance, Third Space, and Urban Indigenous Identity”
Jason Edward Black (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), “Crazy Horse is My Savior: Indigenous Survivance in the Decolonial Hip-Hop of Nataanli Means”
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PAUSE |
POSTERS
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16.30-
18.30
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Survivance in Assimilationist Times in Canada and
the United States
CHAIR: Lionel Larré
Reetta Humalajoki & Alice Baroni (University of Turku), “European Solidarity for Native North American Rights since the 1970s”
Franck Miroux (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour), “The League of Indians of Canada: Survivance, Persistence and Inclusion”
Claire Anchordoqui (Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès), “The Society of American Indians’ Vision(s) of Education: Assimilation, Adjustment, Survivance?”
Lionel Larré (Université de Bourdeaux Montaigne), “The ‘Old Indian’ and the ‘New Indian’: Survivance and Defensive Modernization in the Assimilationist Era”
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Friday 6 November
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ROOM XXX |
Room XXX |
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9.00-
10.30
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ROUNDTABLE
Creative Resistance and Survivance
CHAIR: Robert Keith Collins
Robert Keith Collins (San Francisco State University)
Tim Evans, JD
Angela Gonzales (Arizona State University)
Judy Kertesz (Arizona State University)
Gabrielle Tayac (George Mason University)
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PAUSE |
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11.00-
12.30
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ROUNDTABLE
“This is a dystopian present”: Apocalypse,
Indigiqueerness, and Decolonial Relations
CHAIR: Laura M. De Vos (Radboud University)
Soph Harris-Nijmeijer (University of Westminster)
Aybüke Karabiyik (Radboud University)
Ho'esta Mo'e'hahne (UCLA)
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LUNCH |
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14.00-
14.30
14.30-
16.00
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Lara Rössig (LMU Munich),
“Indigenous Relay Racing between Native Tradition and
Settler Spectacle”
FILM SCREENING
Claiming the Arena
CHAIR: Livia Savelkova
Livia Savelkova (University of Pardubice)
Milan Durnak (University of Pardubice)
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