Happy Holidays from NAIS!

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Happy Holidays!

Exciting News!

NAISI's stellar Program Coordinator Makana Kushi and the Departmental Independent Study Project (DISP) she advised this fall are the subject of a recent News from Brown article by Jill Kimball. Click here to read the article!

See some DISP highlights from throughout the semester below!

1. Victor Beck tries his best to remember vocab words for the Diné Bizaad match game as Miauaxochitl Haskie looks on.

2. Chandlee Crawford's translation and illustration of an Abenaki story about the naming of the Mickinack River.

3. ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi students prepare to practice location words and questions by hiding colorful bean bags (shout out to NAISI admin coordinator Sara Wintz for finding these for us, and to Nick Dentamaro for photographing!)

4. A Lakȟótiyapi lesson in self love from a fabulous pig - translation and pronunciation practice by Aiyana Aeikens.

5. Student actors Victor Beck and Isabelle Meza in the Diné Bizaad Final Skit, with puppets by Victor and Danielle Emerson and background by Shea Hueston.

6. Cultural elements enrich ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi students' study as they observe and describe kapa (Hawaiian barkcloth) and other material culture from the Native Pacific at the RISD Museum (thanks to Sháńdíín Brown for coordinating)!

Brown Events & Opportunities

Brown University's department of History of Art and Architecture (HIAA), in collaboration with Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI), is accepting applications for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Native American and Indigenous Art/Architecture. Read more about the position and apply via Interfolio.

The John Hay Library welcomes applications for 2022 Hay Library Undergraduate Research Fellowships. Current Brown first years, sophomores and juniors in all concentrations may apply. The Hay Library Undergraduate Fellowship Program supports original research using the collections at the John Hay Library. Each fellow will be awarded a stipend of $4,000. Applications are due March 4, and require a letter of recommendation from a faculty member familiar with the student’s work. Learn more.

External Events & Opportunities

The Upstander Project is hosting a live, virtual screening of BOUNTY on Thursday, January 20, 2022 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST. Join Penobscot Nation Tribal Ambassador Maulian Dana, film participant Dawn Neptune Adams (Penobscot), Upstander Project learning director Mishy Lesser, and Akomawt Educational Initiative's Director of Education and Upstander Project advisor Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy) for a conversation after the film. Learn more about the film at bountyfilm.org. Click here to register for the screening.

The RISD Museum is offering a part-time Curatorial Internship in Native American Art for summer 2022! Working with Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Native American Art Sháńdíín Brown (Diné), the student will assist with collection inventory and object research. It's for ten weeks and 20 hours a week and a $3,000 honorarium. Applications are due January 28, 2022, at 11:59 pm. Learn more and apply here.

The 2022 Harvard Forest Summer Research Program is now accepting applications from a diverse group of undergraduate students to join an immersive research experience. The 11-week program dates are May 23 to August 5, 2022 which includes a $6,600 stipend, plus full room & board, and travel to/from Harvard Forest. Applications are currently open https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/summerprogram. Deadline is Feb. 4, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. EST. Learn more

The Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico is offering two nine-month paid internships for college graduates and emerging museum professionals interested in working with Native American collections. Internships include a salary, housing, book allowance, the cost of one professional conference, and reimbursable travel to and from SAR. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2022. For more information and to apply, click here.

The American Philosophical Society Library & Museum announces 2022-2023 fellowship opportunities. Learn more about 2022-2023 opportunities and how to apply here.

Calls for Proposals

The Center for Language Studies is soliciting papers for its 2022 conference, "Cross-talk: Conversations on Race & Language," taking place February 24-26, 2022. Read more at: Brown University Modern Languages Conference ‘22 Call for Proposals.

The Center for Language Studies is also soliciting undergraduate poster presentations as part of its 2022 conference, "Cross-talk: Conversations on Race & Language." Brown undergraduates who have worked on the topic of language, race, translation or mobility will have the opportunity to present this research or their final project to other conference participants and to their peers in our lunchtime undergraduate poster presentation session on Friday, February 25, 2022. Learn more.

A group of graduate students at Harvard and Brown are organizing an interdisciplinary graduate student conference called Seeding Relations: Beyond Settler Colonial and Racialized Ecologies. The deadline to submit a proposal is January 28, 2022 and the conference will be held March 25-26, 2022 via Zoom. See the CFP below and go to seedingrelations.com.

Be sure to follow our events calendar and join our listserv from the NAISI website!