"Walking speech": Hearing and Heeding Indigenous Voices from the Eurasian and American Arctic
 
Naomi Caffee, Assistant Professor of Russian at Reed College, will discuss Indigenous writing in the U.S. and Russia, state ideology, the blending of oral and written literary tradition in Indigenous writing, and the challenges of integrating Indigenous Studies approaches into Russian Studies.
Free and open to the public.

Sponsors: Department of East European, Eurasian & Russian Studies, Institute for Artic Studies at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies, English Department and the Leslie Center for the Humanities.