Indigenous Futures in Higher Education

When: Friday – Sunday, February 21-23, 2025

Where: University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB)

https://sites.google.com/view/2025aiicsymposium

Keynote Speakers:

AMANDA TACHINE, Assistant Professor in Educational Studies at the University of Oregon; Author of Native
Presence and Sovereignty in College

CUTCHA RISLING-BALDY, Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt; Author of We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization
of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies

NATALIE AVALOS, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, Religious Studies, and Women and Gender Studies Departments at CU Boulder; Author of Decolonizing Metaphysics: Transnational Indigeneities and Religious Refusal