Agustin asked me to post this on the LGSA Page: Tuesday January 28th 5:30 pm Dinner with Rose Henry 5:30 Tomorrow! Contact me for details if you want to go. Pay for your own dinner. Tuesday January 28th 7:00 pm Garrison Theater Captured Images: Visual Penetration of the Hula from Contact to Competition Teri Skillman, Outreach Coordinator for the University of Hawaii Hawaiian hula dancers have been subjected to the Western gaze and commodified through visual mediums since Captain Cook’s penetration into the Hawaiian Islands in 1778. The subsequent “scientific documentation” of Hawaiian hula began first as drawings in the ships’ logs, and led to photographic images that were composed by photographers for consumption by the Western viewer in touristic paraphernalia. Invariably, the majority of photographers were white males. This gaze continues to impact the photographs of hula dancers even in the 21st century. With the Hawaiian cultural renaissance (circa 1970), a new wave of commodification of dancers’ images taken at hula festivals and competitions emerged. There are numerous stories in the hula community of dancers accidentally finding their own photographs on wall calendars and greeting cards without their permission. Coffee table books focus on a photographer’s nostalgic view of hula kahiko, continuing the orientalist trend of constructing an image through the Western lens. Visual representations of hula dancers are still at play in the visual repertoire of the hula community, wrapping and layering themselves into performances of repatriated hula repertoire. Wednesday January 29th 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Scripps - Hampton Room Violence Against Women and the Call for a National Inquiry Rose Henry Rose Henry, First Nations activist and educator will present: Violence Against Women and the Call for a National Inquiry. Henry will discuss the problem of violence against women, particularly among the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, and the need for a national investigation into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls - an inquiry that must include Indigenous women in the design, decision-making, process and implementation as a step toward initiating a comprehensive and coordinated national action plan. The Hampton Lunch Lectures at Scripps College are a collection of presentations by Scripps College alumnae and visiting scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. Attendees are welcomed to bring their lunch or purchase lunch at the Malott Commons Dining Hall. Coffee and Tea will be provided. Doors open at 11:45am. Wednesday January 29th 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Scripps - Balch Auditorium Idle No More Rose Henry Rose Henry, First Nations activist and educator will discuss the origins of the Idle No More movement and its calls to change. Idle No More has quickly become one of the largest Indigenous mass movements in Canadian history – sparking hundreds of teach-ins, rallies, and protests across Turtle Island and beyond. What began as a series of teach-ins throughout Saskatchewan to protest impending parliamentary bills that will erode Indigenous sovereignty and environmental protections, has now changed the social and political landscape of Canada. The impetus for the recent Idle No More events, lies in a centuries old resistance as Indigenous nations and their lands suffered the impacts of exploration, invasion and colonization. Idle No More seeks to assert Indigenous inherent rights to sovereignty and reinstitute traditional laws and Nation to Nation Treaties by protecting the lands and waters from corporate destruction. Each day that Indigenous rights are not honored or fulfilled, inequality between Indigenous peoples and the settler society grows. For more information about Idle No More, visit idlenomore.ca/ So lots of cool events this week! Please try to make it out to one! Also check out our new awesome Facebook page created by Joanmarie! https://facebook/groups/487617161269285/ Let me know if you can help with the flyers! - Mariah
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