New professor for Indigenous Studies from 1.10.: Eve Tuck
We warmly welcome Eve Tuck (Impulse Professor for Indigenous Studies, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies) to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!
Eve Tuck is James Weldon Johnson Professor of Indigenous Studies at Steinhardt and Gallatin, New York University. She is the founding Director of the new Provostial Center for Indigenous Studies at NYU, called the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands (Center CIRCL). Eve Tuck is Unangax̂ and is an enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska.
Tuck's work is on collaborative Indigenous research, Indigenous feminisms, and land education. As a whole, her research focuses on how Indigenous social thought can be engaged to create more fair and just social policy, more meaningful social movements, and robust approaches to decolonization.
During the winter semester, Eve Tuck will teach the following seminar: Important Concepts in Indigenous Studies
This seminar focuses on concepts that are at the heart of theory and practice of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). When initially learning core concepts of the field, it can seem that everything comes back to relations, the relational, and relating. We will attend to concepts including kinship, sovereignty, consent, land and refusal. Readings and activities allow students to understand important framings of relation, especially with lands and waters, within communities, and to more-than-human kin.
She will also give a public lecture on Thursday December 10, 18:30 h, Location tba.: Visiting and the Land Education Dreambook
In this lecture, Unangax̂ scholar Eve Tuck will share from her co-authored writing on visiting, and about the Visiting Lab in Lenapehoking. She will describe new research with an Indigenous organization to reclaim lands and waters, and the process of creating a youth arts and land education program on returned lands. The program, which was based on many activities in the Land Education Dreambook, was an important form of regeneration of relationships for youth, families, and communities.
In addition, Eve Tuck will give a talk at the EARN conference in November and will be available for a limited number of individual consultations.