The Indigenous Graduate Student Association (IGSA) and the American Indian Program (AIP) announces Making Connections; Understanding Our Relations: An Autumn Ecoforum. October 23rd and 24th at the Africana facility on the Cornell campus. IGSA and the AIP of Cornell University invite you to lovely Ithaca at the height of autumn color for a two-day interdisciplinary forum of intimate discussions on ecological/environmental/indigenous connections.
Our forum is divided into three concurrent 20 person discussions held Friday morning and afternoon and Saturday morning, for a total of nine forum sessions. Small discussions are meant to identify specific issues and the challenges and problems they present and to generate possibilities and solutions that can be applied in active ways. Conversations will engage in the theoretical but focus on the practically applicable in education and in real communities.
The Ecoforum is completely free to the first 60 registrants, so please register soon! After the first 60 registrants, registration cost is $30 for students and $50 for faculty and the general public. Click the link to the registration form to register and to make your choices for discussion sessions. Registration includes participation in three separate small group discussions, breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Friday and breakfast and lunch on Saturday, along with plenary speakers following each meal and a film screening of For the Next Seven Generations: The Grandmothers Speak followed by discussion with film producer Carole Hart.
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Ecoforum Guest Speakers and Discussion Leaders:
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Gerard A. Baker, PhD, Superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
Eric Cheyfitz, Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, and Director of the American Indian Program, Cornell University
Marie Gladue (Navajo/Dineh), member of Women Waging Peace with Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard's John F Kennedy School of Government, and board member of Black Mesa Water Coalition based in Flagstaff, Arizona
Carole Hart, award-winning television and film producer/writer
Aronhiaies (Skystriker) Herne, Kanien'kehaka (Mohawk) Nation; lives in Akwesasne in New York; sits on the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs
Dan Hill (Cayuga Heron Clan), caretaker of the Cayuga SHARE Farm, New York
Dr. Elisabeth Holland, leads the Biogeoscience Program and is lead scientist in the Bio-hydro-atmosphere interactions of Energy, Aerosols, Carbon, Water, Organics & Nitrogen project for the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Craig Howe, Director of the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies, in Wingsprings, South Dakota
Carol Kalafatic (Quechua-Spanish-Croatian), Associate Director of the American Indian Program, Cornell University
Karim-Aly S. Kassam, International Associate Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies, Department of Natural Resources and the American Indian Program, Cornell University
Robin Kimmerer, PhD, Professor and Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York
Paul Nadasdy, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies, Cornell University
Peter Pinchot, President of EcoMadra Forest Conservation LLC, Equador
Ray Ramirez, Corporate Officer, Native American Rights Fund, in Boulder, Colorado
Chief Albert White Hat, Sr. Anukan San – “Bald Eagle” (Sicangu Lakota), Lakota Language Instructor at Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota