Department of Native American Studies – Brown Bag Lecture Series – Spring Quarter 2014
Department of Native American Studies
Brown Bag Lecture Series
Spring Quarter 2014
12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Wednesdays
Risling Room — 3201 Hart Hall
The Native American Studies Department hosts a quarterly Brown Bag Lecture Series featuring research presentations
by UC Davis faculty and graduate students, as well as invited Bay Area scholars whose work addresses issues
central to Native American and Indigenous Studies.
May 7: UCD NAS Undergraduate Research Panel
Justen Deaton, “Decolonizing Methodologies in Indigenous Hip Hop”
Fabian Iglesias, “Marginalization and Appropriation of Indigenous Dances in the Ballet Folklorico de México”
Pamela Pretell, “The Powwow at UC Davis”
May 21: “Community and Citizenship: Brassbands in Oaxaca, Mexico”
Sergio Navarrete Pellicer, Ph.D., CIESAS-Pacífico Sur & Visiting Scholar – University of California, Santa Cruz
Co-Sponsored by Native American Studies, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas (HIA), Indigenous Research Center of the Americas (IRCA) and the Department of Music.
May 28: “On Recent Lexical Innovations in Hupa”
Justin Spence, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Native American Studies – University of California, Davis
June 2 (Monday): “Music and Indigenous Modernities: Maori and American Indian Perspectives” Lecture – Demonstration
Rob Thorne, M.A., Independent Musician-Scholar, New Zealand
John-Carlos Perea, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies – San Francisco State University
Co-Sponsored by Native American Studies, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas (HIA), The Department of Music and The Asian American Cultural Politics Research Group.
June 4: “Poetic Narratives and the Construction of a Post 1995 Mayan World in Chiapas”
Silvia Soto, Graduate Student, Native American Studies – University of California, Davis