George Levitine Lecture: Paul Chaat Smith, "Weaponizing Nostalgia: Notes on the Absence and Presence of Indians in American Life"
George Levitine Lecture: Paul Chaat Smith, "Weaponizing Nostalgia: Notes on the Absence and Presence of Indians in American Life"
The 53rd Annual Sessions of the Symposium will be held on Friday and Saturday, March 3rd and 4th, 2023. The symposium will begin on Friday evening, March 3rd, when Paul Chaat Smith, citizen of the Comanche Nation and Curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, will deliver this year’s George Levitine Lecture at the University of Maryland. The title of his talk, which he will deliver at 6 pm, is "Weaponizing Nostalgia: Notes on the Absence and Presence of Indians in American Life."
Free parking for this event is available in Lot 1. A tea will take place at 5 pm in the Atrium of the Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, followed by the lecture in room 2203 at 6 pm. Following the lecture, a dinner, which is available by subscription, will take place at 7:30 pm at Mulligan's Grill and Pub nearby the campus, for which parking is available.
Please register for this event.