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Video Title:
Taíno Symposium – Session 2 – Introduction by Jessica Bardill
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The National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center presented Taíno: A Symposium in Conversation with the Movement on September 8, 2018 to celebrate the exhibition Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean. Experts representing Indigenous studies, genetic science, anthropology, linguistics, and other academic disciplines examined exhibition themes in dialogue with Taíno/Indigenous Caribbean community leaders and cultural workers. This session, titled Genetic Science and Genealogy: Recovering Native Ancestry, is a conversation among genetic, DNA, and anthropology experts. This segment features an introduction to the intersections of Indigenous studies and genetics by moderator, Jessica Bardill, Assistant Professor of English at Concordia University. Jessica BARDILL, PhD, is an assistant professor in the department of English at Concordia University. She previously served as an assistant professor of Native American literature at East Carolina University. She engages with the possibilities of biological sciences and policy, with particular emphasis on genetics and genomics by, for, and with Indigenous peoples. She has helped lead the decolonial bioethics training for the summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics program (SING) in the U.S. since 2011 and in Aotearoa/New Zealand since 2016, and is working with collaborators at the University of Alberta and Simon Fraser University to start a similar workshop in Canada in 2018. Prior to her current position, she was a chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in American Indian studies at the University of Illinois and a lecturer in the Thinking Matters Program at Stanford University. She is a contributor to the American Indian and Alaska Native Genetics Resource Guide published by the National Congress of American Indians and has published work in Science, the International Indigenous Policy Journal, the Handbook of Biology and Society, and the American Journal of Bioethics. She received her BA in English and biology from Emory University and her PhD in English from Duke University. This symposium was webcast and recorded live in at the National Museum of the American Indian New York, George Gustav Heye Center on September 8, 2018.
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13 min 5 sec
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