PAST EVENTS​

Friday, April 21, 2023

NYU (CMEP)

The NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs (CMEP) center offers intentional and sustained education centered around diversity and social justice. Exploring the relationships between Black and Native cultural identities with Dr. Kyle T. Mays (Saginaw Chippewa)—an Afro-Indigenous writer and scholar of US history, urban studies, race relations, and contemporary popular culture.

February 28, 2023

Four Talks on Indigenous Studies: Kyle Mays. Urban Indigeneity and Dispossession: Remapping and Reclaiming Space part of a series of talks on interdisciplinary Indigenous scholarship from MIT SHASS

Presented by Kyle Mays Associate Professor, Dept. of African American Studies, Dept. of American Indian Studies, & the Dept. of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.The urban Indigenous experience has often been overlooked.  Moving from the post-World War II era to the contemporary moment of the Land Back Movement, this talk explores the ways Indigenous peoples have resisted urban dispossession.

What is urban indigeneity?  What are the modes of everyday resistance that working class, urban Indigenous peoples use to resist erasure and dispossession? 

Kyle Mays shows how Indigenous historical and contemporary activists have engaged in a variety processes of remapping dispossession in different cities.  By holding meetings, creating Indigenous centers, using aesthetic performances in urban areas, and carving out spaces for youth, they imaginatively reclaim US cities as Indigenous places.

February 22, 2023 Reparations, Landback, and the Possibilities of Kinship as Solidarity

This event is part of the 2023 Indigenous Speakers Series and Black History Month at McGill University. 

February 16th 2023 Leon Jett Memorial Lecture with Dr. Kyle T. Mays

Dr. Mays' work broadly explores three questions: What is the relationship between blackness and indigeneity? How does dispossession in cities shape the lives of Black and Indigenous peoples? And finally, how can we imagine and put into praxis a world in the aftermath of settler colonialism and white supremacy?

November 9th,2022 Afro-Indigenous a conversation about Red and Black power Author of An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, Kyle T. Mays Ph.D. and Amber Starks for what will be a rich discussion revolving around Black and Indigenous relationships through conflict and solidarity throughout history up to the present day.

October 13 2022 University of Illinois Chicago
Virtual via Zoom

Surviving the Long Wars is excited to announce the second virtual seminar in the series by Dr. Kyle T. Mays. The talk will be moderated by NEH Veteran Fellow and artist Anthony Torres. This is the second lecture in a series that includes Laleh Khalili, Harsha Walia, Nick Estes, and more.

Jun 6th 2022 Online

Chicago Public Library is pleased to welcome Dr. Kyle T. Mays author of An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, the first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America. He will be lecturing and answering questions that can be submitted in advance to adultservices@chipublib.org.

May 31 2022

"Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue into the present. He explores how Black and Indigenous peoples have always resisted and struggled for freedom, sometimes together, and sometimes apart. Whether to end African enslavement and Indigenous removal or eradicate capitalism and colonialism, Mays show how the fervor of Black and Indigenous peoples calls for justice have consistently sought to uproot white supremacy."

April 7, 2022 CSUF American Studies Student Association

10th annual American Studies Student Association Symposium keynote speaker

February 28, 2022 Afro-Indigenous Relations from Black and Red Power to Contemorary Popular Culture

This talk askes two questions. First, what is the relationship between Black Power and Red Power in ideology and practice? Second, how can we build a world on the way to aftermath of settler colonialism and white supremacy, and what role can expressive culture play?

Queens University Belfast

November 22nd, 2021 5:00-8:00 PM (UK Time)

This online event includes a four speaker panel and Q&A.