Gina Caison will share material from Chapter 5 of Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance on Shell Island as part of the Buckner Lecture Series hosted by UNCW. The event will be in the Wrack Ballroom on campus.
Gina Caison will discuss her new book, Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance (Duke UP 2024), from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, in Kimpel 321 at the University of Arkansas.
Gina Caison will present the keynote lecture “Grounded in the Gulf South: Indigenous Sovereignty Beyond American Regions” on Friday at the 15th annual Auburn University Montgomery Southern Studies conference.
Conference participants will be able to enjoy a variety of peer-reviewed panels over the course of two days on topics spanning the fields of political science, literature, history, anthropology, English, philosophy, history, religious studies, American studies, women and gender studies, sociology, criminal justice, languages, education, art, art history, and music. The conference is open to the public. Learn more here.
Roswell Reads, in partnership with the City of Roswell and Bookmiser, will host an in-person Special Edition presentation by Charles Frazier, the National Book Award-winning author of Cold Mountain and four other novels. He will discuss his latest work, The Trackers, April 7 at 4 p.m. at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center. Frazier’s appearance will be moderated by Dr. Gina Caison, the Kenneth M. England Associate Professor of Southern American Literature at Georgia State University. Tickets are available now at two price points and can be purchased here.
Gina Caison will present her fellows’ talk for the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University. Online.
Presented as part of the online conference “Doing Southern Studies Today” hosted by Humboldt University Berlin
Invited Conversation with Tiffany King, moderated by Audrey Goodman
A Racial Justice & Book Talk Series Presented by the GSU Center for Studies of Africa and Its Diaspora and the University Library, in partnership with the Decatur Book Festival. Online.
An online conversation about literature and pedagogy at the New Echota Historic Site in present-day Georgia.
Gina Caison will present her paper “Remembering the 1990s: Homecoming & Repatriation in Two Choctaw Novels” as part of the Indigenous Literature panel arranged by Molly Bowman.
Gina Caison will present her paper “The Promises and Perils of (Re)Periodization” as part of the Indigenous Literatures of the United States & Canada session.
This panel, organized by Kirstin Squint, will address the intersection of ecology, climate, and weather in southern literature. Caison will preside as the Chair of the MLA Executive Committee on the Forum for Literature of the Southern United States. Presenters include Richmond Eustis, Tara Green, Kristin J. Jacobson.
Beyond Books is a monthly literary series hosted by The Wren's Nest, profiling the stories of published & unpublished writers.
Gina Caison will be discussing her new book from UGA Press, Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies.
Gina Caison discusses her new book Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies. She argues that popular misconceptions of Native American identity in the U.S. South can be understood by tracing how non-Native audiences in the region came to imagine indigeneity through the presentation of specious histories presented in regional literary texts, and she examines how Indigenous people work against these narratives to maintain sovereign land claims in their home spaces through their own literary and cultural productions. As Caison demonstrates, these conversations in the U.S. South have consequences for how present-day conservative political discourses resonate across the United States.
Based at George Mason University, Fall for the Book is an independent non-profit literary arts organization that promotes reading by sponsoring a variety of year-round events and activities, the flagship of which is the Fall for the Book festival held each October.
Gina Caison and Kirstin Squint discuss the intersection of southern studies and Native American studies and their recent books.
Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga, Cutcha Risling Baldy, Gina Caison, and Brook Colley will discuss how the settler state requires the active creation of “fake news” to control and normalize ongoing occupation. These false narratives move from sites of original publication, including newspapers and other “sanctioned” forms of contemporaneous media, to the present-day archive, requiring approaches that ask scholars to weigh epistemologies of “truth” when conducting research in materials created by settler colonial societies. Despite Indigenous interventions on archives, there remains an assumed superiority of historical news sources, which manufactures complacency within institutions and dismisses Native produced archives such as oral history and community memory. This roundtable contextualizes “fake news” alongside decolonial interventions that shatter the archive and provide Indigenous-informed theoretical constructions of truth and history.
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association 2018 Annual Meeting
Los Angeles, CA
Gina Caison will be participating in the American Comparative Literature Association's seminar "The Geological Turn," where she will discuss her new work on the literature of erosion and Providence Canyon, Georgia.
Hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles
Exact Seminar Location and Time TBD.
Gina Caison will participate in the C19 Seminar, "Indigenous Textualities: Native Americans, Writing, and Representation," where she will discuss recent work with the Georgia State Parks Service to record digital audio tour material for the New Echota Historic Site.
C19 Conference hosted by the University of New Mexico
Gina Caison joins Kirstin Squint, Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Keith Cartwright, and Dolores Flores-Silva for a roundtable that considers the ways LeAnne Howe's work can be read as "Southern" or the ways her work is taught in the classroom while analyzing the "South(s)" in their various forms.
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2018 Conference
University of Texas, Austin
New York, NY
Gina Caison hosts an MLA roundtable on the role of activism in southern studies. Panelists include James A. Crank, Robert Jackson, Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Bethany Mannon, and Jon Smith.
Modern Language Association convention sessions will be held in the New York Hilton Midtown, the Sheraton New York Times Square, and the New York Marriott Marquis. Check conference program for details.
Editors and contributors for Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television will be on hand to talk about their work and celebrate the book's release. Copies will be available to purchase. Event is by invitation only.
Donald Glover’s FX television show, Atlanta, which premiered in 2016, proved both a critical success and an unprecedented artistic representation of the city and its denizens. The city depicted in the show is at once realistic and absurdist, sprawling and intimate. This roundtable brings together a group of scholars with a diverse range of relationships to the city—native Atlantans, former residents, transplants from elsewhere (like so many Atlantans)—to consider the show’s representations and negotiations of race, gender, place, music, genre, and form.
Downtown Baton Rouge, LA
Join Gina Caison along with Small-Screen Souths co-editors Lisa Hinrichsen and Stephanie Rountree and contributors Mary Ann Wilson, Joanna Davis-McEllligatt, and Jennie Lightweis-Goff as they discuss the role of television in the future of southern studies.
Small-Screen Souths co-editors Lisa Hinrichsen, Gina Caison, and Stephanie Rountree give a book talk about their new collection and screen several key moments from the South on television.
Speakers Gina Caison, Anthony Szczesiul, and Elizabeth Herbin-Triant discuss why southern studies matters today and outside of the U.S. South.