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The Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium at UC Davis, located on the lands of the Patwin-Wintun people, is one of the longest running Native American Studies conferences organized and operated by graduate students. Starting in 2011, the symposiums have included papers and presentations from NAS-related graduate students and upcoming student-scholars across and beyond the Americas, spanning themes of history and praxis to Indigenous futurity.
The Native American Studies Graduate Student Association is looking to receive funds for our 11th and now Bi-Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium. NASGSA is excited to continue this event in person to share our research, promote lively discussion, engage with other NAS/AIS scholars, and provide an opportunity for graduate students to gain experience presenting and sharing knowledge. This event invites graduate students from across the globe, includes guest speakers, and is open to the community.
This year’s theme is Indigenous Currents and Net-works: Technologies, Confluences, and Stories of Insistence. We hope to facilitate a forum that centers discussions around Native American and Indigenous conceptualizations of theorizing space, rootedness, ancestrality, and emergence in place as a foundation for our field, our research and our communities have always oriented ourselves to waterways as avenues of movement, communication, trade, and relation.
Because this event is run by and for graduate students, we do not charge a conference registration fee, and rely on donations and fundraisers for the symposium’s needs, such as renting a venue, giving honorariums to keynote speakers, providing refreshments and gift bags to presenters, and paying for technical support during the conference.
Any amount given is greatly appreciated and will go a long way toward ensuring we have a successful symposium this year and for many years to come.
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