We are, therefore I am: Indigenous Knowledges and Western Academia

Since the very beginnings of colonial contact Native American and First Nations knowledge keepers have freely shared their empirical know-how with explorers, traders and settlers, but time and again the combined intellectual hubris of monotheism and Cartesian logo-centrism foreclosed transcultural learning. Today, in various disciplines of Western Academia, we are beginning a certain discursive openness to accept epistemologies, which allow for a more encompassing “Indigenous” relational ontology, in which the seemingly spontaneous and (not yet) explainable can exist alongside hard core materialist empiricism. Lunch will be provided. This event is hosted by the Faculty of Arts. Space is limited. Please RSVP to vesna.malkanovic@ucalgary.ca by Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 with any dietary considerations. For more info, visit the website.

Location:

CIBC Hub Room Rozsa Centre

Speaker:

Dr. Hartmut Lutz held the chair in North American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Greifswald, Germany, with a special interest in Native American and Native Canadian studies. He earned his doctorate in English literature at the University of Tübingen and subsequently taught at the universities of Cologne, Osnabrück, Greifswald and Szczecin (Poland), and at Native Studies programs in North America (UC Davis, Dartmouth College, Saskatchewan Indian Federated College).Guest professorships took him to Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Poland, Romania, and Spain. He received numerous awards, including Fulbright fellowships, the Harris Chair at Dartmouth College as well as the Canada Council of the Arts John G. Diefenbaker Award and the University of Calgary’s 2012/13 Killam Visiting Fellowship. He is the author and editor of eleven books and countless articles.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/we-are-therefore-i-am-indigenous-knowledges-and-western-academia