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Land-Grab UMD

Name: Land-Grab UMD
Start: 2022-09-28T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-09-28T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Land-Grab UMD

Wed Sep 28
2:00pm To 3:00pm
Online

Event flyer with portraits of the two speakers and a bold headline reading "Land-Grab U-M-D" Text reads: "How the United States funded land-grant universities with expropriated Indigenous land"

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In this webinar, Dr. Robert Lee (U. of Cambridge, UK) and Mr. Tristan Ahtone (Kiowa, Editor at Grist) will present their research work on the expropriated land used to found land-grant institutions like the University of Maryland, revealing the links between violent colonialism and higher education in the USA.

This webinar is open to all; please register in order to participate.

This webinar will be recorded. CART captioning will be provided. Please contact allison1@umd.edu for any accommodations or access needs.

Sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Department of Entomology and co-sponsored by MICA Office; The 1856 Project; Student Affairs; College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences; SACNAS at UMD; and City of College Park