Announcements

On November 3rd I look forward to presenting on my book manuscript in progress Icy Matters: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality in Ice-Geographies at the Center for Culture, History, and the Environment Environmental Colloquium. I will discuss critical Native Studies approaches to thinking through ice in three ways. First as a material entity and a terrain of conflict; second, ice as a cultural and scientific imaginary; and third, ice as an analytic that produces a temporized, universal logic of human historicity and futurity. Please register for a Zoom link here.

I'm excited to present work from my book manuscript at the Polar Humanities and Social Sciences Early Career Researchers Workshop held by the Scott Polar Research Institute, part of the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge on October 21st.

I am looking forward to virtually presenting at 4S (Society for the Social Studies of Science) 2021 on session created by Melina Packer, Ashton Wesner, and Cleo Woelfle-Erskine "Better Relations With/In Site and Space: Queer and Indigenous Interventions as Scientific Practice," alongside Yanin Kramsky and Charles Hahn. My paper is titled, "Ice on the Moon: Colonizing Otherworlds," and is held virtually from 1:20-2:50 EST on October 6th.

I'm excited to virtually present alongside my co-organizer Juliana Hu Pegues on our panel, "Theorizing Alaska: Indigeneity, Coloniality, and (Il)legible Resistances" with co-presenters Caskey Russell and Max Zahnd for the American Studies Association Annual Conference 2021 on October 11th 8am - 9:45 EST.

Please consider reading my essay "Reclaiming Native Knowledges Through Kelp Farming in Cordova, Alaska" in Vogue with photography by Ash Adams.

I am excited to present on the roundtable "Currents and Confluences in Native North Pacific Studies" for the NAISA annual gathering, this year virtual. A pre-recorded conversation will be available from June 14-21. I am looking forward to visiting with fellow roundtable participants Jessica Bissett Perea, Eve Tuck, E.J.R. David, Robin Gray, Kat Whiteley, Thomas Michael Swensen, and Xh'unei Lance Twitchell.

I am pleased to participate as a keynote speaker in the conference "Mediated Arctic Geographies: Contemporary Imaginaries of the Circumpolar World" held in Inari, Finland January 23-25. Organized by members and collaborators of the Mediated Arctic Geographies project based at Tampere University and funded by the Academy of Finland, this conference responds to how Arctic geographies are mediated and imagined. See CFP here.

On April 22 as part of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Earth Day Conference, I will participate in a discussion on Indigenous Knowledges, 'Hope,' and Climate Change alongside Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Chairman of Bad River Tribe Mike Wiggins, and moderated by Elizabeth Hennessy. Please register here.

I look forward to presenting on a roundtable called "Land Grab Universities: US Colonialism, the Morrill Act, and Land Back Organizing" this AAG at 3:05 CST alongside roundtable organizers Meredith Palmer and Andrew Curley, as well as Deondre Smiles, Kat Whiteley, and Beth Rose Middleton. Register and view our abstract here.

I'm excited to present some of my new work thanks to the invitation by the Political Ecology Lab at UC Davis for their speaker series "Political Ecologies of Abolition and Sovereignty" on January 27th 2-3:15 CST. My talk is titled, "Ice Core Coloniality and the Human-We."

I'm looking forward to presenting work alongside Bathsheba Demuth for the Maine North Atlantic Institute on November 30th, 11am CST. We will be discussing race, indigeniety, whales and ice in Beringia.

My article "'Exceeding Beringia': Upending universal human events and wayward transits in Arctic spaces" is now available online through Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Please contact me if you would like a copy.

I'm happy to share my creative prose piece "Cryogenics," as it was published by Edge Effects Magazine, a digital magazine produced by graduate students at the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), which is part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. "Cryogenics" is a poetic meditation on glaciers and glacial worldings in Eyak, Alaska. 'Cryogenics' reflects on human and more-than-human kinships at low temperatures.

I am so excited to present at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual conference in May in Tkaranto alongside Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Kristen Simmons, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Robyn Maynard, and Michelle Murphy as chair for our panel "Unfortunate Kinships: Rethinking Environmental Solidarities Across Indigenous Communities."

I am thrilled to be presenting in paper session "Critical Articulations of Labor & Care in Indigenous Alaska and Arctic" for the American Association of Geographers in Denver 2020 for the annual conference held in 2020 from April 6th-10th alongside Danielle DiNovelli Lang, Karen Hebert, Sonya Gray, and Alexander Arroyo with Emilie Cameron serving as discussant and chair.