Nov 14: Land Acknowledgment Workshop with Dr. Tarren Andrews

Land Acknowledgement Workshop

Friday, November 14 | 3:30 pm  Kelley Center

Presented By:

Dr. Lydia Willsky-Ciollo, on behalf of the Humanities Institute and in coordination with the Indigeneity Initiative, a committee organized under the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Please join the campus community on Friday, November 14 at 3:30 pm at the Kelly Center. Our guest speaker, Dr. Tarren Andrews, will lead attendees in a discussion of land acknowledgment statements: what they entail, what they mean in practice, and how we can envision a land acknowledgment statement as a beginning rather than an end.  Beginning with a presentation about her own experience in helping to craft the land acknowledgment statement at the University of Colorado—Boulder, Dr. Andrews will then guide attendees through a workshop, wherein we will imagine what a land acknowledgment might look like at Fairfield University, as a Jesuit, Catholic institution. 

Tarren Andrews is Assistant Professor in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and a faculty member in the medieval studies program at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2022 where she co-founded the Native Graduate Student Group. Her scholarship employs critical Indigenous studies to re-evaluate stories of the early medieval England. Her forthcoming book takes a transtemporal approach to law and literature, examining legal and literary artifacts from the early medieval North Atlantic like the Domesday Book (England, ca. 1085), the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum (England, ca. 878), and the Old English poem The Wife’s Lament (ca. 10th century) to recover formative histories of the Anglophone settler colonial logics that form the foundation of modern Indigenous-settler legal relationships in North America.

Registration required through Life@Fairfield. 

Light refreshments will be served.

The Land Acknowledgement Workshop is presented by Dr. Lydia Willsky-Ciollo on behalf of the Humanities Institute and in coordination with the Indigeneity Initiative, a committee organized under the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.  

Many thanks to our Co-Sponsors:

Fairfield University Art Museum, Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, American Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, Sociology and Anthropology and the Departments of Politics, English, History, and Religious Studies

Hope you will join us!