09/23/2022
By Urmitapa Dutta

The Rev. Dana McLean Greeley Fellowship for Peace Studies at UMass Lowell is excited to announce the first event of its 2022-2023 Speaker series: "Indigenous People’s Struggles, Resistance, and Survival Around the World." This series will focus on settler colonial and structural violence against Indigenous peoples as well as the phenomenal resistance mobilized by Indigenous communities against powerful entities locally and transnationally.

"Ecofantasy as Indigenous Erasure: Conservation and Tourism in Adivasi India" with Prof. Pinky Hota
Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2 to 3:15 pm in McGauvran 312
Virtual Option: To join remotely, please register online. 

Speaker Bio: Pinky Hota is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Smith College. Her research has focused on Indigenous communities and their landless Dalit Others in India, their differential economic racialization and recognition within the Indian nation state, and the remobilization of these debates in right wing politics. Her first book entitled "The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India" is forthcoming in 2023 with University of Pennsylvania Press.