Talks & Events
Featured Talks
Beyond Place and Time: Reading Raven Stories
Princeton University, September 2024
In connection with the Arts Council of Princeton artist residency of Tlingit artist and National Heritage Fellow Nathan Jackson, I’ll describe some of the Tlingit art that has been in Princeton since the 19th century and how that art connects to the Tlingit Raven Cycle, an oral literature believed to be approximately 2,000 years old. The Tlingit raven conveys intergenerational memory, combining the qualities of trickster and cultural hero while bridging human and other-than-human worlds. These character traits inform the “Raven and Fog Woman” story that will appear on the totem pole that Jackson is completing in the Arts Council of Princeton's Sands Gallery.
2023/2024 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series - Story as Survival
Princeton University, March 21, 2024
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17th Annual Humanities Colloquium: Archives and the Future
Princeton University, September 21, 2023
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The Limits of Natural History
Nanyang Tech University, March 15, 2023
Tlingit Symposium
Princeton University, February 10, 2023
Sea-Ravens and the Terrestrial Limits of Natural History
University of Minnesota, November 11, 2022
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Artist Conversation: Lance Twitchell and Nicholas Galanin
Princeton University, April 7, 2022
Moderator: Sarah Rivett
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Retelling American Literature through Raven’s Song
Sealaska Heritage, November 22, 2021
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Calling the End from the Beginning: Retelling American Typology through Raven’s Song
Nanyang Technological University, March 11, 2021
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Before “The Raven”: The Story of the Forgotten American Type
Harvard University, September 30, 2020
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