As part of the Reparative Histories of Art and Architecture Mellon Foundation grant programming, this colloquium kicks off a series of reading groups which will be held in advance of visits to HAA by Mellon-sponsored speakers. Initially conceptualized by HAA’s graduate students, the goal of the reading groups is to jumpstart a discussion of the ideas each speaker will bring in order to foster a deeper conversation once they arrive on campus. A text of the speaker’s choosing will be circulated in advance along with a few questions about it proposed by a team of one faculty member and one graduate student, who will also lead the reading group discussion. The work of Nicole Furtado will be the subject of this week’s reading group, and discussion will be led by Meg Hipple and Alison Langmead. 

Shared reading: Furtado, Nicole Kuʻuleinapuananiolikoʻawapuhimelemeleolani, Sherryl Vint, Andrew M Butler, and Mark Bould. “Indigenous Futurisms.” In The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, 2nd ed., 1:26–33. Routledge, 2024. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003140269-5/indigenous-futurisms-nicole-ku%CA%BBuleinapuananioliko%CA%BBawapuhimelemeleolani-furtado (ULS login required)

Bio: Dr. Nicole Kuʻuleinapuananiolikoʻawapuhimelemeleolani Furtado is a Kanaka Maoli writer and Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the History of Art and Visual Culture department. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Riverside. Her research builds on the methodology of moʻolelo, or Kānaka Maoli storytelling, as a way to (re)imagine Indigenous futurities that move us beyond a “here-and-now” temporality and that which supports critical fabulations of Native relationality.

Image: A frame from the VR project Biidaaban: First Light (2018) by Lisa Jackson, which is discussed in the text Nicole shared with us. Image source: https://www.nfb.ca/interactive/biidaaban_first_light