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Dear AISC friends and family,
Warmly,
Shannon Speed
Director, UCLA American Indian Studies Center
AICRJ 42.1 Now Available!
Check out the most recent issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal (42:1), featuring an inventory and analysis of current AI/AN data in federal collections, an important preliminary step to identifying gaps in federal datasets. Other contributions address tribal taxation issues, “occupational dissimilarities” between the AI/AN and white workforce, and an analysis of the Navajo Local Governance Act. On the cultural front is an article discussing totem transfer narratives and Indigenous futurities and poetry by Heather Cahoon. Finally, the issue offers a personal account of one science-oriented researcher’s embrace of decolonizing methodologies. To view the abstracts, go to http://www.books.aisc.ucla.edu/books/aicrjv42n1.aspx. To read the entire articles, go to http://uclajournals.org/toc/aicr/42/1.
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Dr. Wendy Teeter Receives Honor One Award from the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums
The Honored One Award recognizes individuals whose contributions have significantly benefited the preservation and advancement of indigenous cultural heritage. Dr. Wendy G. Teeter exemplifies the embodiment of that spirit. As Curator of Archaeology for the Fowler Museum, and NAGPRA Coordinator at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Teeter has advocated on behalf of tribes throughout her professional career. Dr. Teeter also teaches in the University's American Indian Studies Department. She is a highly respected collaborator both nationally and internationally with indigenous communities on issues of repatriation and cultural heritage protection. Through her work at UCLA, she oversaw the repatriation of over 2,000 indigenous remains in consultation with 12 tribes. During the process, she ensured that tribal concerns regarding the treatment of their ancestors and cultural items under her stewardship were addressed. This work has earned her the respect of many.
Read more at: https://www.aisc.ucla.edu/news/teeter_honorone.aspx
The Paradox of Indigeneity in the Philippine Context
Friday, November 9, 2018
1-2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Dr. Oona Paredes will be discussing some of the challenges of securing and maintaining “Indigenous” status in the face of Filipino prejudices that simultaneously fetishize and marginalize indigenous minorities.
Oona Paredes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies and Faculty Convenor for the Minor in Religious Studies at the National University of Singapore.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
Living As Indigenous Inside the Dysmorphic Body
Monday, November 26, 2018
3–5 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
RSVP at http://bit.ly/GilbertTalk. Light refreshments will be provided.
Dr. Stephanie Gilbert is currently on a Postdoctoral Indigenous Fulbright at UCLA. She has extensive expertise in Indigenous higher education in Australia and has publications in many fields including Indigenous social work, education and gender studies. She was part of the editorial team who published the first Indigenous social workbook in Australia in 2012. Employed at The University of Newcastle in The Wollotuka Institute, Dr. Gilbert’s academic work has included the recent creation of the Bachelor of Global Indigenous Studies and many years working in enabling programs. When she returns to Australia she will continue working in the discipline of critical Indigenous studies.
A background in social work has added a distinctive lens to Dr. Stephanie Gilbert’s academic research, providing a nuanced insight into the important cultural study of gendered Indigenous child removals. This is a topic that still fuels her research to this day. Dr. Gilbert’s current focus is more particularly on a body dysmorphia she argues is created by these removal experiences. In her current Fulbright research, she’s interested in testing out whether this notion is experienced by other Indigenous peoples around the globe. In this presentation she will present some of the material illuminating the body dysmorphia concept in the Stolen Generations in Australia and some of her investigations of this concept into the epigenetic realm.
Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. Event venue possible with support of UCLA Library.
Aboriginal Higher Education in Australia: The Challenge of Recruitment Versus Retention
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
1–3 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
RSVP at http://bit.ly/GilbertTalk2018. Light refreshments will be provided.
Join us in conversation with Dr. Stephanie Gilbert about the challenges facing educators and managers in Indigenous education, using The Wollotuka Institute, University of Newcastle as a model. How to support Indigenous students to enter, remain, and succeed at University whilst responding to the pressure to increase the recruitment of students will be a major focus of our discussion, as well as the particular challenge facing Indigenous faculty and professional staff to recruit at the same time as building a culturally safe educational environment. Supporting the ongoing development of Indigenous knowledge and the discipline of Indigenous studies lends an added complexity to the debate. Dr. Stephanie Gilbert will address the topic from an Indigenous Australian perspective, having now served in Aboriginal education for over 25 years.
Dr. Stephanie Gilbert is currently on a Postdoctoral Indigenous Fulbright at UCLA. She has extensive expertise in Indigenous higher education in Australia and has publications in many fields including Indigenous social work, education and gender studies.
Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. Event venue possible with support of UCLA Library.
IAC 2019–20 Visting Researcher Fellowship Program: Applications Now Opened!
The Institute of American Cultures offers in-residence appointments to support research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os. We especially encourage applications that advance our understanding of new social and cultural realities occasioned by the dramatic population shifts of recent decades, including greater heterogeneity within ethnic groups and increased interethnic contact.
The 2019–2020 IAC Visiting Research Scholar will receive funding for one or more quarters and may receive up to $35,000 for three quarters (contingent upon rank, experience, and date of completion of their terminal degree). In the event that an award is for less than three quarters or a nine-month appointment, the funds will be prorated in accordance with the actual length of the award. The Visiting Research Scholar must have a home institution. The Visiting Research Scholar funds will be paid through their home institution and will be expected to continue their health insurance through that source. These funds can be used to supplement sabbatical support for the total that does not exceed the candidate’s current institutional salary. Awardees may receive up to $4,000 in research support. The Bunche Center for African American Studies will not have a Visiting Scholar this academic year.
Eligibility Requirements:
Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States and hold a Ph.D. from an accredited college or university (or, in the case of the arts, an appropriate terminal degree) in a relevant field at the time of appointment. UCLA faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students are not eligible to apply.
Deadline:
Applications are available November 1, 2018. Completed applications must be received by 11:59 pm January 10, 2019. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. Applicants will be notified in March.
TO APPLY: Application is available online at: https://sa.ucla.edu/IAC/VisitingScholar
IAC 2019–20 Research Grants: Applications Now Opened!
The Institute of American Cultures (IAC) invites applications for support of research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os for 2019–2020. The Institute also invites proposals on interethnic relations that will increase collaboration between the Centers and/or between the Centers and other campus units.
Eligibility Requirements:
UCLA faculty, staff, graduate students, and IAC Visiting Scholars.
Funding: The Research Grant Program is on a reimbursement basis only. Funds for the purchase of permanent equipment will be provided only under exceptional circumstances. Conference travel, whether the applicant is presenting or attending, is not reimbursable.
Grant Period: July 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.
Deadline: Applications are available November 1, 2018 and must be received by 11:59 p.m., March 1, 2019. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. Applicants will be notified in May.
Prior to submission of the application, applicants should briefly discuss their proposal with the Coordinator of the appropriate Center, or in the case of interethnic proposals, with each applicable Center. All grant recipients, where appropriate, must comply with UCLA’s Protection of Human Subjects in Research before receiving funding.
To Apply: Application is available online at: https://sa.ucla.edu/IAC/ResearchGrant
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