2016 NAIS Graduate Student Research Showcase

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 23:33:56 +0000

2016 NAIS Graduate Student Research Showcase Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 12/06/2016 - 16:33

Please join us for the

2nd annual NAIS Graduate Student Research Showcase:

"You Have to Leave Room in Life to Dream"

Date: Tues. December 6

Time: 3:30 -6:00 pm

Where: The Flatirons Room - C4C, 3rd Floor

Reception to follow presentations

Presenters:

Renata Ryan Burchfield - "Going to Water: Transnational Indigenous Collectivity Flows from Standing Rock"

Alexander Cardenas - "Mestizo Mercedarians and the Deconstruction of Anti-Mestizo Royal Politics in 16th c. Peru"

Constance Gordon - "Cooking for Water Protectors: Food and Resurgance at Standing Rock"

Willi Lempert - "Dreaming Down the Track: The Mediation of Aboriginal Futurisms"

Dawa Lokiysang - "Tibet and Indigeneity: Are Tibetans Indigenous?"

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CNAIS Faculty Gerardo Gutierrez Wins Prestigious Fellowship

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 23:37:01 +0000

CNAIS Faculty Gerardo Gutierrez Wins Prestigious Fellowship Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 12/02/2016 - 16:37

Dr. Gerardo Gutierrez awarded ACLS fellowship

CNAIS Core Faculty, Gerardo Gutierrez is a professor of Anthropology and one of six CU faculty to win American Council of Learned Societes (ACLS). His project studies documents created in 17th and 18th century colonial Mexico by the Nahua community of Chiepetlan, Guerrero, Mexico. These documents known as "titulos primordiales" address how local Nahua groups remembered and represented their histories to two distinct audiences: local villagers and Spanish authorities. The documents allowed Nahua communities to assert their legal claim to land and defend local agency by providing an alternative interpretation of the past and is contrary to the history promoted by either the Aztec Empire or the Spanish colonial regime..

“During this research, I want to address indigenous intentionality and representation of their historical memories and consciousness at local levels, breaking with biased Spanish accounts. My final goal is to write histories that take into account indigenous perspectives.”

The ACLS fellowships awarded to Dr. Gutierrez and the other faculty members can be up to $70,000 and allow faculty to spend from 6-12 months researching and writing full-time. Read the full story by Clint Talbott.

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Native American and Indigenous Studies

2016 NAIS Graduate Student Research Showcase

CNAIS Faculty Gerardo Gutierrez Wins Prestigious Fellowship