Indigenous Resilience, Climate Change, and the Environmental Humanities

Ray Smith Symposium 2023-2024.  Indigenous Resilience, Climate Change, and the Environmental Humanities.

• 2:00pm- Welcome Remarks and Introduction of Symposium Speakers.
• 2:30pm- Dr. Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, Iñupiaq Elder and environmental justice activist and educator. 
• 3:30pm- Linda Infante Lyons, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq artist based in Anchorage, Alaska.

Monday, November 13, 2023 – Dr. Paul & Natalie Strasser Legacy Room, 220 Eggers Hall 

• 11:00am – Edward Hummingbird, director of institutional research, effectiveness and planning at the Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• 1:00pm – Allison Akootchook Warden, Iñupiaq interdisciplinary artist and a tribal member of the Native Village of Kaktovik, Alaska.
• 2:00pm – Dr. Christopher Roos, environmental archaeologist and professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University.
• 3:00pm – Panel discussion with all speakers.
• 4:00pm – Exhibition titled “Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter Jones” at the Syracuse University Art Museum, located in the Shaffer Art Building.  

Sponsored by by the Humanities Council of Syracuse University.  Co-Sponsored by, the Environment, Sustainability and Policy Program, Geography and the Environment Department, Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, Anthropology Department, History Department,  Department of Art and Music History.