About
The Indigenous Studies Working Group (ISWG) at Boston University was founded in Fall 2023 to build community among students, scholars, and members of the BU community interested in the interdisciplinary field of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Our goal is to showcase and discuss scholarship in Indigenous Studies through seminars, events, reading groups, film screenings, informal gatherings over meals, and public lectures and events.
Past Events
Killers of the Flower Moon series, February 26th – 29th, 2024
Hosted by BU’s Conversations in the Arts and Ideas, David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon, discussed his work at BU on Wednesday, February 28, at 7pm. Throughout the week, the ISWG participated in the conversation with Grann and discussed other works about Osage history in the 1920s. Copies of Grann’s book as well as John Joseph Matthew’s novel Sundown and Charles Red Corn’s A Pipe for February are available for the group to read.
The Event Series included:
Weds, 2/28, at 7pm, Tsai Performance Center: Conversation with David Grann.
Thurs, 2/29, 12pm, in Room B06 at 226 Bay State Road: Lunch meeting of the ISWG to discuss.
Co-organizers:
Wade Campbell (wadehc@bu.edu)
Mary Battenfeld (mbatten@bu.edu)
Joseph Rezek (jrezek@bu.edu)
Graduate Assistant:
Genna Kane (gweidner@bu.edu)
Please contact the Graduate Assistant to have your email added to our list serv.
The Indigenous Studies Working Group is sponsored by the American & New England Studies Program, the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Associate Dean of the Faculty, Humanities, the Associate Dean of the Faculty, Social Sciences, and the Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion.