[Ais-list] Corrected link for Dr. Jean M. O'Brien - White Earth Ojibwe - U of Minnesota Guest Speaker 2/23

Mon Feb 20 09:49:27 EST 2023

Please excuse the duplicate emails. The correct link to register to Zoom to this event is:
https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwudOyqqTIuHtYI5HMaSdZnA2A8rCiPa96w

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From: Moriarty, Megan <moriarty.8 at osu.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2023 9:42 AM
To: Lee, Jungmin via Ethnicstudies <ethnicstudies at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: Dr. Jean M. O'Brien - White Earth Ojibwe - U of Minnesota Guest Speaker 2/23

Please help us continue to celebrate Indigenous Ohio with a very special speaker!

Please share this information and flyer with friends, families, colleagues, students, etc.! Please post on any lists you have access to!

Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 7-8PM (Eastern Time)

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Free and open to the public.

The Newark Earthworks Center is hosting Dr. Jean M. O'Brien (White Earth Ojibwe), University of Minnesota, who will present on her recent book "Monumental Mobility" this Thursday on Zoom<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtde6tqDkrHdDfYOldwWN-yNKfw8SJU-SQ__;!!KGKeukY!391IiLgEKGI3rRF36jUV0etA64WN8krtKVp5XxPIILo18UdvAERXn4M_aHROCOXIEYg0kSXVxaqTv-4HDXp2zw$> at 7 p.m. EST.

Register on Zoom<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtde6tqDkrHdDfYOldwWN-yNKfw8SJU-SQ__;!!KGKeukY!391IiLgEKGI3rRF36jUV0etA64WN8krtKVp5XxPIILo18UdvAERXn4M_aHROCOXIEYg0kSXVxaqTv-4HDXp2zw$> at https://go.osu.edu/landback

Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's unveiling, Massasoit began to move and proliferate in ways one would not expect of generally stationary monuments tethered to place. The plaster model was donated to the artist's home state of Utah and prominently displayed in the state capitol; half a century later, it was caught up in a surprising case of fraud in the fine arts market. Versions of the statue now stand on Brigham Young University's campus; at an urban intersection in Kansas City, Missouri; and in countless homes around the world in the form of souvenir statuettes.

The surprising story of this monumental statue reveals much about the process of creating, commodifying, and reinforcing the historical memory of Indigenous people. Dallin's statue, set alongside the historical memory of the actual Massasoit and his mythic collaboration with the Pilgrims, shows otherwise hidden dimensions of American memorial culture: an elasticity of historical imagination, a tight-knit relationship between consumption and commemoration, and the twin impulses to sanitize and grapple with the meaning of settler-colonialism

7:00 – 8:00 PM EST
Carmen Zoom, Registration Required<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtde6tqDkrHdDfYOldwWN-yNKfw8SJU-SQ__;!!KGKeukY!391IiLgEKGI3rRF36jUV0etA64WN8krtKVp5XxPIILo18UdvAERXn4M_aHROCOXIEYg0kSXVxaqTv-4HDXp2zw$>

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, please contact Dr. John Low at 7<tel:740-755-7857>73-547-2308 or low.89 at osu.edu<mailto:low.89 at osu.edu> . Advance notice will help us to provide seamless access.

There will be 15 minutes for a Question and Answer session at the end of the webinar. Please submit your questions via Chat.

Jean M. O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe) is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, O’Brien is the author Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit (with Lisa Blee, North Carolina, 2019), Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England (Minnesota, 2010), Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 (Cambridge and Nebraska, 1997 and 2003), and the co-edited volumes Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies (Routledge, 2017), Why You Can’t Teach U.S. History Without Indians (North Carolina, 2015), and Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States: A Sourcebook (North Carolina, 2013). She is a co-founder and Past President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and inaugural co-editor (with Robert Warrior) of the association’s journal, Native American and Indigenous Studies. She has also served as President of the American Society for Ethnohistory and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Cobell Scholarship Fund. She has won numerous fellowships and awards in support of her work, including the American Indian History Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014 from the Western History Association, and she is an elected member of the Society of American Historians.

This Speaker series is a part of Indigenous Ohio: OSU and Native Arts and Humanities Past and Present grant.  Sponsored by the Newark Earthworks Center and the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme<https://globalartsandhumanities.osu.edu/>.

Kind thanks to Jared Gardner Department of English and Director of Popular Culture Studies for assisting in set up and hosting this web presentation.

John N. Low, JD, Ph.D.
Citizen - Pokagon Band of Potawatomi
Associate Professor - Department of Comparative Studies
Director - Newark Earthworks Center
Affiliated Faculty - American Indian Studies
Courtesy Appointment - Department of History
Ohio State University - Newark

Winner - American Society for Ethnohistory: Robert F. Heizer Award - best article in the field of ethnohistory (2015) "Vessels for Recollection - The Canoe Building Renaissance in the Great Lakes" Material Culture, Vol. 47, No. 1, Special Issue: Technology (Spring 2015), pp. 1- 31.

Member - Chicago History Museum Board of Trustees

They're all we have, you see.
All we have to fight off illness and death.
You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.
Their evil is mighty,
but it can't stand up to our stories. -
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

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