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Indigenous Studies Research Symposium

Join us at the Annual Spring Indigenous Studies Research Symposium, Friday, May 9th 9am-4pm at the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House. Hear from graduate and undergraduate students and Indigenous Knowledge Families as they present their original research in the field of Indigenous Studies followed by Q&A for each presenter. Breakfast and lunch provided, free and open to all. The general schedule is included below with a detailed schedule available closer to the date. PRESENTATION SCHEDULE, 9:00am Doors open. Coffee and pastries, 9:30am Session 1 Philosophy and Worldview, 11:30am Lunch, 12:15pm Session 2 Health and Resurgence, 2:15pm Break, 2:30pm Session 3 All Our Relations. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Campus room: Gathering Hall. Accessibility Contact: kaiwise@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: UW Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Friday, May 9, 2025, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM. For more info visit ais.washington.edu.

Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series

The Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington hosts an annual literary and storytelling series. Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: jedge18@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Sacred Breath is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, the Intellectual House Academic Programming Committee, the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, the UW Department of English, the Banks Center for Educational Justice, the Squaxin Island Tribe, the Suquamish Tribe, and the Muckelshoot Tribe. Thursday, May 22, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM. Town Hall Seattle 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101. For more info visit ais.washington.edu.

Ice Geographies by Jen Rose Smith with Jessica Bissett-Perea,

Educator, geographer, and writer Jen Rose Smith visits the store to discuss her new book, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic, with academic and music scholar Jessica Bissett Perea. Ice animates the look and feel of climate change. It is melting faster than ever before, causing social upheaval among northern coastal communities and disrupting a more southern, temperate world as sea levels rise. Economic, academic, and activist stakeholders are increasingly focused on the unsettling potential of ice as they plan for a future shaped by rapid transformation. Yet, in Ice Geographies, Jen Rose Smith demonstrates that ice has always been at the center of making sense of the world. Ice as homeland is often at the heart of Arctic and sub-Arctic ontologies, cosmologies, and Native politics. Reflections on ice have also long been a constitutive element of Western political thought, but it often privileges a pristine or empty “nature” stripped of power relations. Smith centers i… Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: 206-624-6600. Event Types: Academics. Thursday, May 29, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Elliott Bay Book Company. For more info visit www.eventbrite.com.