Bard College at Simon's Rock: the Early College

Indigenous Citizenship in a Settler State

Monday, October 31, 2016

Blodgett House


The 9th public lecture in our Fall 2016 Proseminar Speaker Series, "Who the People: Punctuating Politics in the USA, Being America in the World."

Scott Manning Stevens

Speaker: Prof. Scott Manning Stevens, Syracuse University 

Associate Professor, Native American Studies and Director 

Research and Teaching Interests

Primary interests in Native American cultures of the Northeast from the pre-colonial period to the present. Specialized area interests in visual culture, museum studies, and Native American literatures.

Education

Harvard University, Ph.D. in English 1997
Harvard University, A.M. in English 1991
Dartmouth College, A.B. in English, 1985

Publications

Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians. University of North Carolina Press - Chapel Hill, 2015.

Art of the American West: The Haub Family Collection at the Tacoma Art Museum. Yale University Press, 2014.

Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North. University of Chicago Press, 2013. 

Book chapters and articles

“‘The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness’: The KJV and Ethno-Exegesis in Iroquoia,” The King James Bible across Borders and Centuries, ed. Angelica Duran. Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press, 2014.

“The Historiography of New France and the Legacy of Iroquois Internationalism,” Comparative American Studies, Vol. 11 No. 2, June 2013, 148-65.

“A View from Iroquoia,” primary essay in a catalog for the exhibit, On the Trails of the Iroquois, March of 2013, at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle in Bonn, Germany. Sylvia Kasprycki, curator and editor. Berlin: Nicolai Verlag, 2013.

“The Path of the King James Version of the Bible in Iroquoia,” Prose Studies, vol. 34, issue 1 (Routledge), 2012

“The National Museum of the American Indian and the Politics of Display.”  American Indians and Popular Culture: Literature, Arts, and Resistance.  Ed. Elizabeth DeLaney Hoffman. Los Angeles: Praeger Publishers. 2012.

“Cultural Mediations: or How to Listen to Lewis and Clark’s Indian Artifacts”; refereed article, published by UCLA, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, issue 31.3, 2007.

“‘Unaccommodated Man’: Essaying the New World in Early Modern Europe.” Multicultural Europe and Cultural Exchange in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ed. James Helfers. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2005.

“New World Contacts and the Trope of the ‘Naked Savage’”.  Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern Culture.  Ed. Elizabeth Harvey.  Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

“Mother Tongues and Native Voices:  Linguistic Fantasies in the Age of the Encounter.”  Telling the Stories: Studies in Native American Literature.  Ed. E. Hoffman-Nelson and M. Nelson.  New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2001. 

“Sacred Heart and Secular Brain.”  The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe.  Ed. Carla Mazzio and David Hillman.  New York: Routledge, 1997.  *Winner of the English Association’s Beatrice White Book Prize for the Outstanding Scholarly Work in the Field of English Literature before 1590.

"William Apess's Historical Self."  Northwest Review XXXV-3 (1997): 67-84. 

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The Division of Social Studies presents the Fall 2016 Proseminar in Humanistic and Social Scientific Inquiry on the theme of "Who the People: Punctuating Politics in the USA, Being “America" in the World." This Fall, we engage with questions of the vitality, legitimacy, promise, im/possibility of democratic life that haunt one of the largest democracies in the world, which is also, indeed, one of the largest global imperial powers. How do the frames of polis, nation-state, colony, and postcolony intersect in the United States of America, and how are we to understand the people that fill out or outline these enclosures? What are the self-conceptions and proclamations, indeed also sighs and laments, of “the people” enclosed within these frames, and how do they impact the claims the people are able to make with regard to the meaning of politics, the political process, participation, and possibility--and indeed the very possibility of life within and without the polity. What must a transdisciplinary and decolonial inquiry into these matters of life and death look like, where does and must it happen, who does and must undertake it--and what affects and actions must it seek to enable and disable in us?

 

 

Cost: Free

Contact:
Asma Abbas

Phone: 413-528-7215
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