2022 - 2023

Speaker Series

The Futures of American Democracy

"Unraveling the Big Lie: Participatory Disinformation and Its Threat to Democracy"
Kate Starbird, University of Washington

Wed., March 15 at 5 pm


"Redrawing the Empire State: Politics and Institutional Competition in the 2020 Redistricting Process"

Thurs., Oct. 27th at 6:30 p.m. in LN 1106 (IASH Conference Room)

Peter Miller, Brennan Center for Justice

Co-sponsored by HRI and the CRCB TAE


OTHER RECENT EVENTS


Harvest Celebration of the Three Sisters Garden
Friday, Oct. 14th

11:30am in the Science 1 Courtyard 

Event Overview:  Partners from across 绿帽社 will be holding a harvest ceremony for the Indigenous 鈥淭hree Sisters Garden鈥 in collaboration with the Onondaga Nation, the central fire keepers of the Haudenosaunee, and in the spirit of the Two Row Wampum鈥擥盲鈥we帽ta鈥 or The Silver Covenant Chain of Friendship.  A traditional Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving blessing will be followed by a lecture on Three Sisters cuisine and a corn braiding demonstration. This event will feature Angela Ferguson from the Onondaga Nation Farm and other Haudenosaunee representatives. 

Schedule of Events:

11:30am: Thanksgiving Blessing of the land

12:00pm: Lecture on Three Sisters cuisine and corn braiding demonstration

All are welcome.  We ask that you RSVP by October 3, 2022 at Noon:

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to either BrieAnna Langlie (Dept of Anthropology), langlie@binghamton.edu or Barrett Brenton (Center for Civic Engagement), bbrenton@binghamton.edu.

Thank you (nya:weh)!


Indigenous Peoples鈥 Day Events
Monday, Oct. 10th

Related to the opening of the LOCO Human Rights Festival, join us for an afternoon and evening of events to celebrate Indigenous Peoples鈥 Day 2022 - A Healing Journey. You can attend the events in person in UU102 or register for the events to join virtually at the links below.


2:45-3:00 pm (EDT) UU102 -  A Healing Journey. LOCO Human Rights Festival opening presentation by Charlotte Kennedy (Quuiich -Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Suislaw, Oregon, U.S.)

3:00 - 4:00 pm (EDT) UU102 - Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey. Presentation led by Nadine Spence (Nlaka鈥檖amux, Secwepemc, Coastal Salish, British Columbia, Canada).  

Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey is a movement of humanity with the natural world. It honours the grandmother鈥檚 lived experiences, story, and legacy left for those of us to discover, and to share through storytelling, teachings, ceremony, and art. The heart of this journey are the stories told by different Indigenous artists of the pacific northwest. Through the visual artwork they place on their cedar bentwood travelling message chest and the experience they share.

Register for the 2:45-4:00 pm events


4:30 - 6:45 pm (EDT) UU102 - Film screening of 鈥淗ome from School: The Children of Carlisle鈥 (2021). A conversation will follow facilitated by Charlotte Kennedy.

In the late 19th century, tens of thousands of Native American children were removed from their families and tribal homelands to boarding schools where they were stripped of their languages, traditions, and culture, in the name of assimilation. It is a painful era for Indigenous peoples across the country not often covered in U.S. history books. The documentary 鈥淗ome From School: The Children of Carlisle鈥 dives into the history of Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the first off-reservation government-funded boarding school for Native American children. The film chronicles the modern-day journey of Northern Arapaho tribal members seeking to recover the remains of Arapaho children more than 100 years after they fell mortally ill and were buried on the school grounds.

Register for the 4:30-6:45 pm event