An International Conference in Global Indigenous Studies

March 16-19, 2026, we cordially invite you to an International Conference in Global Indigenous Studies.

venue: Faculty of Modern Languages, Dobra 55, room 2.118

Programm:

MONDAY, March 16 

15:00  Cristina Stanciu, Virginia Commonwealth University  
Bearing Witness: Residential School Survivors and the Limits of Reconciliation

16:00 Oliver Scheiding, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 
Native American Periodicals: The Art and Politics of Indigenous Printscapes

17:00 Magdalena Lubańska and Justyna Wierzchowska, University of Warsaw
Problematizing Global Indigenous Studies: A Spotlight on Central-Eastern Europe  

TUESDAY, March 17 

15:00 Matt Bokovoy, University of Nebraska Press 
Working with Publishers on a Mature Book Manuscript from the Ph.D. Thesis 

16:30 Agnieszka Brylak, University of Warsaw 
Gods, Native Religious Concepts, and Grants: Rethinking Nahua Religion through an ERC Journey

THURSDAY, March 19 

15:00 Lionel Larré, Université Bordeaux Montaigne 
‘There is no America without us’: How the Society of American Indians Wanted to Shape the United States 

16:00  Alena Leshkevich and Piotr Cichocki, University of Warsaw
Whose Language? Whose Prayer? The Strategic Construction of Indigeneity in Podlasie

17:00 Round table

Organizers: 
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw 
Faculty of modern languages, University of Warsaw
Humanities Research Center, Virginia Commonwealth University