K. Wayne Yang: Legacies of the Plantation
Scholar K. Wayne Yang will deliver one of three lectures on the legacy of colonial history in North America; the privatization of nature and land; and the logic of the plantation and enclosure on contemporary life in the series Nature and Sovereignty organized by Alena Williams, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in Winter Semester 2025/26.
K. Wayne Yang is Professor of Ethnic Studies & Provost of John Muir College at the University of California, San Diego. He co-founded the Indigenous Futures Institute, which channels Indigenous knowledge through community-based participatory models to critically intervene in the production of knowledge, and imagine abundant futures that resolve pressing issues facing our climate, health, and environment. His main research collaborator is Indigenous Unangax̂ scholar Eve Tuck, James Weldon Johnson Professor and founding director of the Provostial Center for Indigenous Studies at New York University. Together they edit the book series Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education with Routledge. They have several participatory action research projects with the Land Relationships Super Collective, which consists of community organizations engaged in land-based projects. He completed his Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of California, Berkeley.
Further lectures:
From Plantations to Invasive Infrastructures: Kanaka Maoli Mobilization for 'Āina
Architectural Historian Kelema Moses, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning member, Indigenous Futures Institute, University of California, San Diego
Friday, 17. October 2025, 11h
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Art Historian Evan Neely, Associate Chair, History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, New York
Wednesday, 3. December 2025, 11h