Mishuana Goeman, an expert on American Indian gender equity issues, lectures on “The Spectacle of ‘Originary’ Moments in The New World (2005) and Twilight of the God/Te Keremutunga o Nga Atua (1996)” on April 3 at 8 p.m. in the Boone Recital Hall, Scripps College Performing Arts Center, 231 E. 10th St. This event is free and open to the public.
Goeman, an assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, examines prevalent images of romance during colonization. A question-and-answer session follows her lecture. Goeman received her doctorate degree from Stanford University. Her book, “Mark My Words: Native Women (Re)mapping Our Nations,” will be published and released by the University of Minnesota Press later this year.
The Humanities Institute organized a series of spring lectures and film screenings, “Continuing Invasion: Resistance, Resilience, and Re-invention Among North American Indigenous Peoples.” The speakers challenge the distorted depictions of Native peoples in mainstream and scholarly written works. For more information, please contact the Humanities Institute at (909) 621-8237 or visit their website.