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The Indigenous BorderLands: An exploration of the border/lands from indigenous perspectives across the Americas

  • UC Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA, 95064 United States (map)

Featured Speakers:

  • 4:00pm–Teresa Gregor: Aa'a Mat Tipaay Ak'wee, Bringing Her/Voice Back to the Land: Incomplete Repatriations in "The Autobiography of Delfina Cuero"

    Dr. Gregor is Kumeyaay from the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel and also Yoéme. Her research focuses on California American Indian Women, sovereignty, literary and cultural repatriation, and tribal resiliency and revitalization.

  • 6:00pm–Harsha Walia: Abolish Border Imperialism: Migration, Racial Capitalism and Empire

    Harsha Walia is the author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. Her work addresses how current migrant and refugee crises are the inevitable outcomes of conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change, generating mass dispossession worldwide.

This Event is Sponsored By:

The Humanities Institute | The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation | UCSC Feminist Studies | The Center for Racial Justice