Program Panel Recordings

Breakfast

Welcome and day’s overview

Moderator: Professor Brenda L Croft
2024 Gough Whitlam & Malcolm Fraser Visiting Chair of Australian Studies, Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra Peoples: Anglo-Australia/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish heritage

PANEL 1

Shelly C. Lowe – in conversation
Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities, US, Navajo People

Patsy Phillips – presentation
Title: Path to Venice: Native American Art at the Biennale
Director, Institute of American Indian Arts/Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, US, Cherokee Nation

Professor Nancy Marie Mithlo – presentation
Data-Driven: What American Indian Spectatorship Can Tell Us About Art and Social Change
Professor, UCLA Departments of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies, Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe

Moderator: Professor Brenda L Croft
2024 Gough Whitlam & Malcolm Fraser Visiting Chair of Australian Studies, Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra Peoples: Anglo-Australia/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish heritage

PANEL 2

Professor Mary Amanda McNeil
Mellon Assistant Professor, Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora (RCD), School of Arts and Sciences Tufts University, Enrolled Citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Professor Jolene Rickard
Associate Professor, departments of History of Art and Art, Former Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program 2008-2020 (AIISP), Cornell University, US, Skarù·rę / Tuscarora Nation, Hodinöhsö:ni Confederacy

Professor Tanya Harnett
Title: Smallpox, Settlers and Sovereignty
Associate Professor, Fine Arts, University of Alberta, Canada, Carry-the-Kettle First Nations, Saskatchewan

Megan Tamati-Quennell
Curator, Sharjah Biennale, UAE/Aotearoa/NZ, Te Ātiawa, Ngāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe Māori descent

Moderator: Professor Stephen Gilchrist
Associate Professor, School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia, Australia ,Guest Curator, Australian Studies Committee, Harvard Art Museums, 2011 – 2016 ,Yamatji people of the Inggarda language group, northwest Western Australia

Lunch

PANEL 3

Jim Logan
Title: Canadian Indigenous Participation at the Venice Biennale. Its History, ongoing Involvement and benefits for the Future.
Artist, Arts Administrator, Canada, Cree/Sioux-Métis People

Joanna Bigfeather
Artist, Arts Administrator, US, Cherokee Nation

Professor David Garneau
Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Visual Arts Department, University of Regina, Canada, Métis People

Professor Stephen Gilchrist
Associate Professor, School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia, Australia ,Guest Curator, Australian Studies Committee, Harvard Art Museums, 2011 – 2016 ,Yamatji people of the Inggarda language group, northwest Western Australia

Moderator: Assistant Professor Gloria Bell
Art History and Communication Studies, ,McGill University, Montreal Quebec Canada ,Art Historian and Arts Consultant ,Métis/ Irish / English

PANEL 4

Greg A. Hill
Indigenizing Colonial Institutions. Why?
Multidisciplinary artist, curator aory , City University in New York (CUNY), US, Anishinaabe-kwe, Beausoleil First Nation

Visiting Prof. Wanda Nanibush
Title: between here and elsewhere
Founding director, aabaakwad ,Helen Frankenthaler Visiting Professor in Curating in the Ph.D. Program in Art History Art History, Graduate Department of Art History , City University in New York (CUNY), US ,Anishinaabe-kwe, Beausoleil First Nation

Michael Aird
Director, UQ Museum of Anthropology, University of Queensland, ARC Research Fellow ,First Nations, Southeast Queensland

Jami C. Powell
Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Indigenous Art, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, US ,Citizen of Osage Nation

Moderator: Professor Christopher Pexa
Bdewákaŋtunwaŋ Damákota ,Mní Wakáŋ Oyáte Dakóta omáwapi (enrolled, Spirit Lake Dakota Nation) ,Associate Professor, Department of English ,Affiliate, Harvard University Native American Program ,Affiliate, American Studies, Harvard University

Tea/coffee break

PANEL 5

Professor Alan Ojig Corbiére
Assistant Professor ,CRC in Indigenous History of North America, York University, Canada ,Bne doodemid (Ruffed Grouse clan), Anishinaabe, M’Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island

Deanna Byrd
NAGPRA (Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act), Associate Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard ,Enrolled Citizen, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Professor Christopher Pexa
Associate Professor of English, ,Harvard University ,Dakhóta People/Nation

Stephanie Mach
Curator of North American Collections ,Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard ,Navajo Nation

Moderator: Kabl Wilkerson
Kabl Wilkerson (they/them) is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation (Bourassa & Muller families; Bear Clan) and is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Harvard University

Hotel refresh

Dinner

Breakfast, tea, coffee

PANEL 6

Maia Nuku
Title: Living with Museums: Indigenous artists at the MFA
Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Curator for Oceanic Art, The Met, US/Maori ,Maori (Ngai Tai) descent/English

Dr. Therese Lautua
Title: Serving as a Māmā & “Theologian”: A view from the Moana
College Fellow in Indigenous Religions, School of Divinity, Harvard University, US ,Samoan, Irish and Swiss descent/heritage

Marina Tyquiengco
Inaugural Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of Native American Art, Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston, US ,CHamoru People, Guåhan (known as Guam), US

Dakota LaPlante
Tribal and Community Visit Coordinator ,Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology ,Cheyenne River Lakota (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe)

Moderator: Jami C. Powell
Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Indigenous Art, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, US ,Citizen of Osage Nation

Tea/Coffee break

PANEL 7

Professor Sky Hopinka
Assistant Professor ,Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies ,Harvard University, US ,Film-maker ,Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians

Kimberley Moulton
Adjunct Curator, Indigenous Art, Tate Modern ,Phd candidate curatorial practice Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab, Monash University Melbourne. ,Yorta Yorta People

Sháńdíín Brown
PhD student, Department of the History of Art, Yale University ,Curator and creative ,Citizen of the Navajo Nation

Katina Davidson
2024-25 Curatorial Fellow at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia
Curator of Indigenous Australian Art ,Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Magandjin (Brisbane, Australia) ,Artist ,Kullilli/Yuggera Peoples

Moderator: Saffron Hooper Sener
History PhD Student, Harvard University – Settler/Non-Native

PANEL 8

Professor Julie Andrews
Professor, Academic Director (Indigenous Research), Office of Pro-Vice Chancellor (International), La Trobe University, Australia ,Woiwurrung, Yorta Yorta Peoples, ,Member of the Dhulanyagan family clan of the Ulupna people

Kelli Cole
Director, Curatorial and Engagement ,National Aboriginal Art Gallery, Australia ,Co-curator ‘Emily Kam Kngwarray’, National Gallery of Australia (2023-4), Tate Modern (2025), UK ,Warumungu/Luritja Peoples

Noah Mapes
Title: Ancestral Futures: Mino-Bimaadiziwin Miinawaa Biskaabiiyang
Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University ,(Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe descent)

Professor Brenda L Croft
2024 Gough Whitlam & Malcolm Fraser Visiting Chair of Australian Studies ,Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra Peoples: Anglo-Australia/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish heritage (TBD)

Lunch

Symposium Conclusion

Professor Brenda L Croft
2024 Gough Whitlam & Malcolm Fraser Visiting Chair of Australian Studies ,Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra Peoples: Anglo-Australia/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish heritage (TBD)

Professor Nancy Marie Mithlo
Professor, UCLA Departments of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies ,Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe