Hawkes Speaks on Black-Indigenous Stories/Studies Public Forum
DeLisa D. Hawkes, assistant professor in the UT Department of Africana Studies and affiliated faculty in the Department of English and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program, was an invited panelist for Black-Indigenous Stories//Black-Indigenous Studies, a roundtable discussion at the University of California, San Diego, in March.
The roundtable, co-sponsored by the Black Studies Project and the Indigenous Futures Institute, asked panelists to discuss how their research considers the possibilities and limits of working at the intersection of Black, Native, and Indigenous Studies. Hawkes spoke about the possibilities within literary studies, while other panelists considered sociology and architecture as fields to discuss Black and Indigenous humanities research.
Hawkes also co-facilitated a research seminar on Black-Indigenous futurisms with Kathryn Walkiewicz (UCSD) on March 15, 2024, at the annual conference for the C19: Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists, which is the first academic organization dedicated to nineteenth-century American literary and cultural studies.
“Being invited to speak on and share work from my manuscript-in-progress on the intersections of Black and Native/Indigenous Studies in literature was an enriching experience,” Hawkes said. “I got to connect with faculty working in education, communications, and history, to name a few. The work being done at the Black Studies Project and the Indigenous Futures Institute at UC San Diego shows how important it is to be thinking about these peoples’ histories and futures together.”