Jacinta Kerketta, an indigenous poet of India, will share her writing and talk about the indigenous world of India through the eyes of poems. The event aims to explore themes related to indigenous literature, politics and resistance, including the historical and contemporary situation of Adivasis (Hindi for "original inhabitants").
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Kerketta is a poet, writer and freelance journalist, belonging to an Oraon Adivasi community of Jharkhand, India. She writes in Hindi. In her poems, she highlights the injustices committed on the Adivasi communities, along with their struggles.
This event aims to open this discussion of global indigeneity and contemporary struggles over land, livelihoods, and identity. Through the lens of history and Jacinta's poetry, we hope to have an interdisciplinary conversation that can strengthen our transnational and local understandings of indigenous life and futures.
This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Initiative, the American Indian Studies Program, the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Humanities Institute