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X-WR-CALNAME:Haseltine Lecture "Destroying the Big Mound"
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DESCRIPTION:In 1869\, the so-called Big Mound of St. Louis was destroyed. B
 ut the destruction and desecration of this Indigenous monument did not end
  there. In this presentation\, I trace the multiple destructions endured b
 y the monument and the politics behind its memorialization. I question the
  conmemoration efforts made in 1929 under the sponsorship of the Colonial 
 Dames of America\, an association dedicated to honoring the memory of the 
 very agents involved in the destruction and disposession of the indigenous
  populations the marker they installed supposedly conmemorates. Finally\, 
 I discuss the displacement of this marker in 2014 by the Missouri Departme
 nt of Transportation in connection with the construction of the Stan Musia
 l Veterans Memorial Bridge. I argue that successive efforts to conmemorate
  the monument\, as well as other indigenous sites\, have operated as a set
  of settler colonial technologies that contributed to several erasures\, e
 liding the claims of Indigenous populations and constructing an image of t
 hese monuments as empty\, abandoned ruins through their physical and conce
 ptual un-making.\n\nSpeaker bio: \n\nAna María León is an architect and 
 a historian of objects\, buildings\, and landscapes. Her work studies how 
 spatial practices of power and resistance shape the modernity of the Ameri
 cas. She is co-founder of several collectives laboring to broaden the reac
 h of architectural history including the Feminist Art and Architecture Col
 laborative (where she was active 2013–2020)\, Detroit Resists\, Nuestro 
 Norte es el Sur\, and the Settler Colonial City Project. She recently publ
 ished her first book\, titled Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s 
 Dreams for Buenos Aires (University of Texas Press\, 2021). León teaches 
 at the University of Michigan where she co-directs the Decolonizing Pedago
 gies Workshop.\n\nZoom link: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/96436404229
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SUMMARY:Haseltine Lecture "Destroying the Big Mound"
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/haseltine_lecture_-_destro
 ying_the_big_mound
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
CATEGORIES:Lecture
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
CATEGORIES:Free
CATEGORIES:Diversity and Multiculturalism
CATEGORIES:Native American
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