Post by Okwes on Jan 21, 2006 11:36:01 GMT -5
"Playing Indian" author, Phillip Deloria to speak at Fowler Center
Sarah Morris
January 19, 2006
www.asuherald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/01/19/43cfbd884f5fc
Starting the semester for the ASU Lecture-Concert Series will be Dr.
Philip Deloria featuring the lecture "From Nation to Neighborhood:
Empire, Colonialism, and American Indian Studies" Jan. 24 at 7:30
p.m. in the Fowler Center.Deloria, whose thesis paper for Yale
University was titled "Playing Indian," will discuss how Americans
have perceived and mimicked the identities of American Indians, the
effects it has had on American Indians and history, and the reactions
of the American Indians to "Playing Indian."Deloria's fields of study
include issues of culture and representation, especially concerning
American Indian people, and Environmental and Western American
history. Deloria studied broadcasting at the University of Colorado
at Boulder, received his doctorate in American Studies from Yale and
is now the Director of the American Culture Program at the University
of Michigan.Deloria is also the author of "Indians in Unexpected
Places" and "The Blackwell Companion to American Indian History."
Deloria is a member of the Organization of American Historians where
he is participating in the Distinguished Lectureship Program. The
Lecture is co-sponsored by the ASU Heritage Studies Ph.D. Program and
the ASU Office of Diversity.Other programs for the Lecture-Concert
Series this semester include the Merling Trio Feb. 28; the
Christopher Watson Dance Company March 14; and Antigoni Goni April 5.
Programs are free and open to the public.
Sarah Morris
January 19, 2006
www.asuherald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/01/19/43cfbd884f5fc
Starting the semester for the ASU Lecture-Concert Series will be Dr.
Philip Deloria featuring the lecture "From Nation to Neighborhood:
Empire, Colonialism, and American Indian Studies" Jan. 24 at 7:30
p.m. in the Fowler Center.Deloria, whose thesis paper for Yale
University was titled "Playing Indian," will discuss how Americans
have perceived and mimicked the identities of American Indians, the
effects it has had on American Indians and history, and the reactions
of the American Indians to "Playing Indian."Deloria's fields of study
include issues of culture and representation, especially concerning
American Indian people, and Environmental and Western American
history. Deloria studied broadcasting at the University of Colorado
at Boulder, received his doctorate in American Studies from Yale and
is now the Director of the American Culture Program at the University
of Michigan.Deloria is also the author of "Indians in Unexpected
Places" and "The Blackwell Companion to American Indian History."
Deloria is a member of the Organization of American Historians where
he is participating in the Distinguished Lectureship Program. The
Lecture is co-sponsored by the ASU Heritage Studies Ph.D. Program and
the ASU Office of Diversity.Other programs for the Lecture-Concert
Series this semester include the Merling Trio Feb. 28; the
Christopher Watson Dance Company March 14; and Antigoni Goni April 5.
Programs are free and open to the public.