Thursday November 6, 2025
UNM Student Union Building (SUB) Ballroom B

• Jennifer Malat, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
• Lloyd L. Lee, Editor of Wicazo Sa Review

• Margaret (Marnie) Cook
• James Riding In (Zoom)
• Lloyd L. Lee
• Madeline Rose Mendoza
• Moderator: Myla Vicenti Carpio

• Sarah Hernandez  “Forty Years of Native and Indigenous Literature and Literary Criticism: Reflections on Native Literary Nationalism(s) and Other – Isms”
• Nick Estes  “Awakening the Red Giant: American Indian Anti-Imperialism and the First Decade of International Indian Treaty Council” (Zoom)
• Michael Yellow Bird & Hai Luo  “The Decolonization Equation: A Conceptual Framework”
• Blaire Morseau & Les Field  “Anarchrist Futures: Indigenous Influences in the Speculative World-Making of Ursula K. LeGuin” (Blaire Morseau on Zoom)
• Mario A. Gómez Zamora  “Those Who Are Like That”: Performing Queer Belong Through P’urhépecha Indigenous Practices of El Costumbre”
• Moderator: Lloyd L. Lee

• Fantasia Painter “We Insist You Use Our (Place) Names: Naming and Renaming After Deb Haaland”
• Millicent Pepion “Indian Removal Medicine Wheel Discourse: An Analysis of President Trump’s Executive Orders Affecting Indian Country in his First 100 Days”
• Summer Powell “Tó éi ííná: Arizona v. Navajo Nation and Diné Water Rights”
• Maia Rodriguez “Circling Sovereignty: Unrecognized at the U.S.-Mexico Border”
• Moderator: Wendy S. Greyeyes

• Aretha Matt
• John V. White
• Sarah Llanque-White

• Cassie Velarde Neher
• Ryan Begay
• Moderator: Leola Tsinnajinnie Paquin

Friday November 7, 2025
UNM Student Union Building (SUB) Ballroom C

• Madeline Rose Mendoza “Writing as Regeneration: Indigenous Rhetorics of Futurity”
• Shaina Nez “Navigating the Divide: Emerging BIWOC Authors in the Literary Publishing Landscape”
• Natalie Vaughan-Wynn & Taiko Aoki-Marcial “Cultivating a Cross-Campus Indigenous Writing Praxis”
• Marcela V. Paiva Veliz “Misappropriated Traditional Knowledge and the Need for Methodological Change” (Zoom)
• Moderator: Sarah Hernandez

• Anthropology & Museum Industries – Roundtable (45 minutes)
  • Franklin Chavez II
  • Sheyenne Lacy
• Dustin Roberto“Obsessed with Southwest: Cultural Manufacturing in Art and Fashion”
• Eric Tippeconnic “Native Motion: Visual Land Acknowledgments”
• Moderator: Maia Rodriguez

• Kevin Lujan Lee “Indigenous Futurisms as Research Methodology: Chamoru Projections of Indigenous Presence into Environmental Futures in Guåhan” (Volume 38, Number 1 & 2)
• Moderator: Madeline Rose Mendoza

• Loring Abeyta “Performative Reckoning: Native Remains, Pioneer Mascots, and the Reverberations of Sand Creek at the University of Denver”
• Natalie Martinez “Engaging Indigenous Critical Literacies”
• Kayla Richards “The Stories We Tell: Indigenous Relational Accountability and the Ethics of Community Engaged Research”
• Moderator: Tiffany Lee

• Daryl Lucero “Cosmotechnogenesis: Refusal, Mnemoecology, and Indigenous Worldmaking in Ketunomics”
• Jennifer Marley “Land and Women are Not for Conquest: Historicizing Native Women in Prostitution and Combating Sex Trade Expansionism”
• Jacob Quintin “Expectations of a Hunter: Queered Warriorhood in Prey (2022)”
• Kara Roanhorse “The Land Cracks Open: Indigenous Youth Resistance, Changing Woman, Gendered Labor, and Diné Refusal as Method”
• Moderator: Jennifer Denetdale

• Lloyd L. Lee & Madeline Rose Mendoza