[AIW] CCNIS Mainz: Summer Program

[Däwes, Dr. Birgit]

Dear colleagues,

the Center for Comparative Native and Indigenous Studies Mainz cordially invites you to the following events:

Drew Hayden Taylor (Anishinaabe) will be reading from his latest novel, "Motorcycles and Sweetgrass" next Monday, April 23, 2012 at the Gutenberg-University of Mainz. His reading will take place from 4-6 p.m. at the Fakultaetssaal (Philosophicum, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18, 55128 Mainz). Everyone is welcome!
More information can be found here: http://www.amerikanistik.uni-mainz.de/

Mita Banerjee and I also most cordially invite you to an international lecture/workshop series on "Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies" at the Gutenberg-University Mainz. We will convene for each of these events on Thursdays, between 10 and 12 a.m. in P 204 (Philosophicum, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18, 55128 Mainz).
Here is our program:

Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Nature, Culture, Politics
An International Research Colloquium

19. April 2012
Birgit Däwes / Mita Banerjee (JGU Mainz)
“Introduction: Methodologies of Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies”

26. April 2012
Alfred Hornung (JGU Mainz):
“Chinese Garden Culture and Ecological Life Writing”

24. Mai 2012
Graham Huggan (University of Leeds, UK):
“Notes on the Postcolonial Arctic”

31. Mai 2012
Hsinya Huang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan):
“The Trans-Pacific Ecological Imaginary: Native American and Indigenous Studies in Taiwan”

14. Juni 2012
Micha Edlich (JGU Mainz):
“Global Indigenous Studies and Material Feminisms: Intersections and Potentialities”

21. Juni 2012
Hubert Zapf (Universität Augsburg):
“Cultural Ecology and Literary Creativity”

5. Juli 2012
Kylie Crane (JGU Mainz-Germersheim)
“Reading Land-centred Writing: Wright’s Carpentaria and Silko’s Almanac of the Dead”

12. Juli 2012
Joni Adamson (Arizona State University):
“Source of Light, Source of Life: New Biosemiotic Understandings of Indigenous Literatures and Ecological Knowledges”

19. Juli 2012
Catrin Gersdorf (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg):
“The Ecological Thought and the Literary Indian”

For detailed information, please contact: daewes at uni-mainz.de, or see our website at http://www.amerikanistik.uni-mainz.de/.

With best wishes from Mainz,

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Daewes
FB 05 /American Studies
Center for Comparative Native and Indigenous Studies
JGU Mainz

P.S. Thanks again to the organizers of the AIW meeting in Zurich for a truly wonderful conference!