Ray Smith Symposium Lectures: Indigenous Resilience, Climate Change, & the Environmental Humanities

Ray Smith Symposium 2023–2024: Indigenous Resilience, Climate Change, and the Environmental Humanities

Lectures

• 11:00 am: Talk and Q&A with Edward Hummingbird (Cherokee Nation), educator and art historian
• 1:00 pm: Talk and Q&A with Ali Meders-Knight (Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria); activist, artist and educator
• 2:00 pm: Talk and Q&A with Christopher Roos, educator from Southern Methodist University

The symposium was made possible with generous support from the College of Arts & Sciences; Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs; Humanities Center; Humanities Council; Center for Global Indigenous Cultures & Environmental Justice; the Environment, Sustainability, and Policy Program; the Departments of Geography & the Environment; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Art & Music Histories; Anthropology; English; Religion, History, Sociology, and Nutrition & Food Studies; the Environmental Storytelling Series of CNY & the Engaged Humanities Network; SUNY ESF Center for Native Peoples & the Environment; and the Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center. We also greatly appreciate the contributions of our mentors and collaborators of the Haudenosaunee community to this symposium, and acknowledge with respect the Onondaga Nation, firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee, the Indigenous people on whose ancestral lands Syracuse University now stands.