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PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

Last updated August 14th, 2026

Tuesday 3 November: ONLINE DAY

ROOM: PHIL 201

Note that there is no conference catering today

12.30 13.00	Krisztina Kodo (Kodolanyi University), “From Ancestral Knowledge to Future Worlds: Survivance as Relational Practice in Indigenous Futurities” György Toth (University of Stirling), “The Native American Rights Struggle Reaches the United Nations”
13.30	Tatiana Viallaneix (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), “Indigenous Survivance and Agency Among Tribal Nations in Oklahoma: Creating Pathways for a Better Collective Future”
14.00	Nancy Mykoff (Utrecht University), “Innovating Education in the Netherlands: Teaching and Learning with Indigenous Universities and Communities Across Turtle Island”
14.30	Lara Rössig (University of Erfurt), “Indigenous Relay Racing between Native Tradition and Settler Spectacle”
PAUSE
15.00	Kamelia Talebian Sedehi (University of Rome, La Sapienza), “Cultural Memory, Testimony and Witnessing in A Pipe for February”
15.30	Elena Serrano Moya (University of Alcalá), “Humour, Community Healing and Sovereignty: The Architecture of Indigenous Survivance in Reservation Dogs”
16.00	Linford D. Fisher (Brown University), “Survivance, Futurity and the Long Shadow of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas”
17.45	AIW Business Meeting

Wednesday 4 November

ROOM: PHIL 201 (in-person only)

9.30 - 11.00	Storytelling and Survivance CHAIR: 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” Kellie Callender (independent researcher), “Misrecognition of Ethics Enacted Through Repetition: Repetition Through Enacted Ethics of Misrecognition”
PAUSE ROOM: PHIL 211	POSTER 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”
11.30 - 13.00	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”
LUNCH
14.30 - 16.00	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)”
PAUSE ROOM: PHIL 211	POSTER
16.30 - 18.30	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”
CONFERENCE DINNER

Thursday 5 November

ROOM: PHIL 201 (in-person only)

9.30 - 11.00	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”
PAUSE ROOM: PHIL 211
11.30 - 13.00	Alcohol and Food Sovereignty CHAIR: Jason Edward Black Sabine Meyer (University of Bonn), “The 'Indian Lid' Controversy: Liquor, Law, and Ojibwe Lives in Allotment-Era Minnesota” 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.”
LUNCH
14.30 - 15.30	Music and Movement CHAIR: 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”
PAUSE ROOM: PHIL 211
16.00 - 18.00	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”

Friday 6 November

ROOM: PHIL 201 (in-person only)

9.00 - 10.30	ROUNDTABLE Creative Resistance and Survivance CHAIR: Robert Keith Collins Robert Keith Collins (San Francisco State University) Timothy Evans, JD Angela Gonzales (Arizona State University) ~~Judy Kertesz (Arizona State University)~~ Gabrielle Tayac (George Mason University)
PAUSE ROOM: PHIL 211
11.00 - 12.30	ROUNDTABLE “This is a dystopian present”: Apocalypse, Indigiqueerness, and Decolonial Relations CHAIR: Ho'esta Mo'e'hahne (UCLA) Soph Harris-Nijmeijer (University of Westminster) Aybüke Karabiyik (Radboud University) Ho'esta Mo'e'hahne (UCLA)
LUNCH
14.00 - 16.00	FILM SCREENING *Claiming the Arena* CHAIR: Livia Savelkova Livia Savelkova (University of Pardubice) ~~Milan Durnak (University of Pardubice)~~