Center for the Humanities

Bailey J. Dann ’17
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024

4:15 p.m., Humanities and Social Studies Center, Room S1325

Where the Medicine Grows: Healing Generational Trauma through
Land, Language, and Culture

Bailey Dann will weave together the stories of her family and her community's journey to reclaim what was nearly lost—our languages, our culture, our connection to the land. Grounded in both personal experience and community resilience, she'll explore how the deep roots of language, culture, and land offer pathways to healing generational trauma, particularly the lasting scars of boarding schools.

A Conversation Around Post-Election Concerns and Issues
Friday, November 8, 2024
HSSC A2231, 4 – 5:30 p.m.

Join us for an open conversation where folks can exchange ideas and feelings without worrying about being attacked. Our goal, after exchanging thoughts, concerns, feelings, and fears, is that we move the conversation toward the values that hold us together in our roles as students, staff, faculty, and administrators who work together in a residential community.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, Center for Prairie Studies, Data and Social Inquiry Lab (DASIL), Donald and Winifred Wilson Center for Innovation & Leadership, Peace and Conflict Studies, Rosenfield Program, and Writers@Grinnell.

Eric Zimmer
Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024

Book Discussion
4 p.m., Humanities and Social Studies Center, Room A2231 (Auditorium) — Note change in location

He will lead a book discussion about his book, Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement.

Public Talk
7 p.m., Humanities and Social Studies Center, Room A2231 (Auditorium)

Reclaiming the Indigenous Midwest: The Meskwaki Settlement as #Landback

Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement (University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 2024)

Dr. Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone)
Howard R. Lamar Professor of History, Yale University

Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024
Rosenfield Center 101, 7 p.m.

Resisting the Mythology of Indigenous Disappearance: Native Activists in the Early 20th Century World

“If our schools and universities are to remain vital civic institutions, we must create richer and more truthful accounts of the American Republic’s origins, expansion, and current form. Studying and teaching America’s Indigenous truths reveal anew the varied meanings of America”

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Yale UP, 2023), 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction