Fall2025/STS@VTSeminar Series:STS and Indigenous Knowledges and Practices Panel скачать в хорошем качестве

Fall2025/STS@VTSeminar Series:STS and Indigenous Knowledges and Practices Panel

STS and Indigenous Knowledges and Practices Featuring: Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, Director, Center for Sustainable Engagement in the Arctic, Virginia Tech Edward Anthony Polanco, Associate Professor and Director of Indigenous Studies, Virginia Tech Desiree Poets, Assistant Professor in Political Science and ASPECT, Virginia Tech The panelists this week will discuss the intersection of indiginous and science and technology studies broadly concieved. In this conversation our three panelists describe their own work, which deal with issues of sovereignty, epistemic justice, and colonization, and what can be learned between these three projects and STS. Dr. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq is an Iñupiaq scholar and a Tribal citizen of the Noorvik Native Community in Northwest Alaska. She is an assistant professor of technical and scientific communication and the founding director of the Center for Sustainable Engagement in the Arctic (CSEA) at Virginia Tech. Her work focuses on Arctic research, data governance, and research methodologies that support community-led initiatives and scientific innovation. Dr. Edward Anthony Polanco was born in Los Angeles, CA and he is a Kuskatanchanej (person from Kuskatan). He is a scholar of Mesoamerica and his interests include Nahua history and society, healing, and maize. Dr. Desiree Poets is assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and a core faculty of the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) PhD Program. Through ethnographically informed, critical, and collaborative methods, Poets has been working with urban Indigenous, favela, and maroon (in Portuguese, quilombola) communities and movements in Brazil’s Southeast Region since 2013. Her research focuses on settler colonial, postcolonial, and dependency theories in Latin America; urban (de-)militarization; arts, collective memory and community change, and questions of gender, ethnicity, class, and race.