Note: Many of these events are part of the Hanson Center’s spring series, and further information is available here.
Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM; OCGE 107; Braided Storytelling as a Method in Archaeology: Reimagining Sugpiaq Pasts and Futures Through Story; Dr. Hollis K. Miller ‘15, State University of New York, Cortland.
Saturday, February 21, 8 pm. Williams Center. Christopher Morgan & Artists | Native Intelligence / Innate Intelligence (Note: Tickets to this performance are free to students.)
Thursday, February 26, from 12:15–1:00 p.m. in OCGE 107. Dr. Julia Hiʻilei Kawehipuaakahpulani Hobart (Kanaka Maoli) will be giving a lunchtime lecture on creating parks in Hawai’i.
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Landis Cinema, Buck Hall; Film Screening and Discussion: Decolonizing Science? Dr. Kendall Moore, Univ. Rhode Island.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Simon Center 300; Kincentric Media Ecologies: Indigenous Women, Ancestral Knowledge and Technology in the Andes, Dr. Carmen Valdivia, Assistant Professor of Spanish. For more information, see https://hanson.lafayette.edu/woven-together/
Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Simon 109, Empowering the Next Generation of Fire Leaders; Mr. Ryan Reed (Karuk, Hupa and Yurok descent), Co-founder and Program Director, FireGeneration Collaborative
Thursday, March 26, 2026, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Oechsle 224, 48-minute video screening: The Fortress, the River and the Garden: A New Metaphor for Knowledge Symbiosis (Robin Wall Kimmerer) (Note, video is available until April 3)
Thursday, April 2, 2026, 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM, Oechsle 224, Q&A (hybrid format) with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM, OCGE 107, “Land Acts: Land’s Agency and Environmental Justice in Literature, Law, and History in the Native Northeast.” Dr. Kyle Keeler, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies.