Lei Sellers
UCR Undergraduate Award on “Representing Indigeneity, Women, and Work”
Deadline: March 31, 2023
Eligibility
UCR Undergraduate Students
Award Period
Spring/Summer 2023
Award Amount
$500 and the opportunity for the selected project to be highlighted at the symposium
Award Description
Call for Submissions: UC Riverside Undergraduate Award on “Representing Indigeneity, Women, and Work”
The organizers of the 2023 symposium “Representing Indigeneity, Women, and Work” (Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside, April 14, 2023) invite submissions for an Undergraduate Award for the best academic or creative project responding to the symposium’s collective themes. One submission will be selected for an award of $500 and the opportunity for the project to be highlighted at the symposium. Projects may be submitted by individuals, pairs, or groups; in case of a pair or group the $500 award would be divided equally among all group members. (Awards will be provided through student financial aid accounts.)
Submissions may be presented in a variety of formats including, but not limited to: academic study or other prose writing (10 pages double-spaced maximum); poetry; zine available to the community; artwork (visual or other); performance video, visual essay, podcast, etc. If appropriate, submissions should include a written explanation or artist’s statement which explains clearly how the project responds to the symposium’s collective themes.
Only submissions from current, full-time enrolled undergraduate students at UC Riverside will be considered. (All participants in group projects must be full-time enrolled undergraduate students at UC Riverside). Projects must be submitted by midnight Friday, March 31. Only one submission per student/group. Funding has been generously provided by a Mellon Faculty Fellowship Award from the California Center for Native Nations.
Submissions will be accepted in the following formats: PDF, MP4 file, or link to a private YouTube channel.
For questions about the award, contact CIS@ucr.edu.
Complete Applications Include
Your Information
Your major and UCR SID
Participants
All participants in group projects must be full-time enrolled undergraduate students at UC Riverside.
Project Information
Project title and format. Submissions may be presented in a variety of formats including, but not limited to: academic study or other prose writing (10 pages double-spaced maximum); poetry; zine available to the community; artwork (visual or other); performance video, visual essay, podcast, etc.
Written Statement
If appropriate, submissions should include a written explanation or artist statement which explains clearly how the project responds to the symposium’s collective themes.
Applications due by 11:59 PM on the deadline.
Online ApplicationAbout “Representing Indigeneity, Women, and Work”
The historical archive has long included representations of Indigenous women, which were often captured to support settler colonialism and empire-building and which were informed by various iterations of racist ideologies and capitalist motivations. However, such representative forms, including works of literary fiction, painting, photography, film, dance, and other forms of performance, can also be reconsidered today through what Native Hawaiian feminist scholar Maile Arvin calls a strategy of “regenerative refusals,” which are “actions that seek to restore balance and life to indigenous communities that continue to live with the structures of settler colonialism.” In addition, creative practitioners of the present and the past offer Indigenous perspectives by and of women that challenge colonial legacies and engender possibilities for new stories and new connections within and across communities.
The “Representing Indigeneity, Women, and Work” project will host a one-day symposium on representations by and of women from Indigenous communities in relation to work. The symposium seeks to center the diverse ways in which women have represented themselves, or been represented, engaging with work across time periods and places, while also interrogating the concept of “work” itself through non-western critical lenses including Native Feminisms frameworks. The symposium will ideally coincide with a companion exhibition of a series of photographic glass slides of Hawai’i taken during the late-19th and early-20th centuries, which center the invisibilized labor/responsibilities of women in Hawai’i during the years before and after the U.S.’s illegal annexation of the Hawaiian Islands in 1898.
Coordinators
Heidi Brevik-Zender -Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Languages
Nicole Ku’uleinapuananiolikoawapuhimelemeleolani Furtado – English, PhD Student
Mack Gregg – English, PhD Candidate, English