Speakers
Marcello Di Cintio
Marcello Di Cintio is the author of three books of travelogue including, most recently, Walls: Travels Along the Barricades. Walls won the 2013 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, the Wilfred Eggleston Prize and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. Di Cintio is also a magazine writer whose work can be found in publications such as The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, The International New York Times, Condé Nast Traveller and Afar. Di Cintio is a former writer-in-residence with the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program and the Palestine Writing Workshop.
Aritha van Herk
Aritha van Herk is the author of five novels, Judith, The Tent Peg, No Fixed Address, Places Far From Ellesmere (a geografictione) and Restlessness. Her non-fiction includes A Frozen Tongue, In Visible Ink, and Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta. With photographer George Webber she has published In This Place: Calgary 2004-2011, and most recently, Prairie Gothic. She has published multiple articles and ficto-critical texts. She teaches Creative Writing and Canadian Literature at the University of Calgary.
Dylan Miner
Dylan A. T. Miner (Métis) is Associate Professor at Michigan State University, where he coordinates a new Indigenous contemporary art initiative and is adjunct curator of Indigenous Art at the MSU Museum. He holds a PhD from The University of New Mexico and has published more than fifty journal articles, book chapters, critical essays and encyclopedia entries. In 2010, he was awarded an Artist Leadership Fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution). Since 2010, he has been featured in more than fourteen solo exhibitions and been artist-in-residence at institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, École supérieure des beaux-arts in Nantes, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Rabbit Island, Santa Fe Art Institute, and numerous universities and art schools. His book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island will be published this October by the University of Arizona Press, while his second book Indigenous Aesthetics: Art, Activism, Autonomy is perpetually past deadline. In the next year, he will hang solo exhibitions in Montreal, Winnipeg, and Minneapolis. His project Michif, Michin is currently a solo exhibition at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture.
Audra Simpson
Audra Simpson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her book, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States, is published by Duke University Press (2014). She is the editor of the Syracuse University’s reprint of Lewis Henry Morgan’s anthropological classic, League of the Haudenosaunee (under contract) and co-editor (with Andrea Smith) of the 10 chapter collection Theorizing Native Studies, also with Duke University Press (2014). She has articles in Cultural Anthropology, American Quarterly, Junctures, Law and Contemporary Problems and Wicazo Sa Review. She contributed to the edited volume Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge: Cambridge Press 2000) and was the volume editor of Recherches amerindiennes au quebec (RAQ: 1999) on “new directions in Iroquois studies.” She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Fulbright, the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, Dartmouth College, the American Anthropological Association, Cornell University and the School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, NM). In 2010 she won Columbia University’s School for General Studies “Excellence in Teaching Award.” She is a Kahnawake Mohawk.