Please mark your calendars for a CTRW research colloquium and brown-bag lunch presentation on Thursday, 10 November from 12.30 – 2 pm in 6191 Helen C. White Hall.
“Using Technical Documents to Teach Indigenous Dispossession and Settler Land Transfer Across the Great Lakes”
In this informal discussion, Dr. Gottschalk Druschke will introduce her work with the Indigenous Lands Expropriation Education Group, a set of faculty, staff, and students across Geography, American Indian Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Nelson Institute who are working to create linked educational modules about the dispossession of Indigenous lands in what is now called Wisconsin. Gottschalk Druschke will focus on how publicly accessible archival materials (treaties, survey notes, land patents, deeds, obituaries) can be paired with mapping and storytelling techniques to reconstruct this history of dispossession and consider how to incorporate that work into undergraduate writing courses to make meaning in the present.
Dr. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke is a professor of Composition & Rhetoric in the Department of English at UW-Madison, where she also serves as chair of Water@UW, an umbrella organization that connects water scholars across the UW-Madison campus and around the state. Gottschalk Druschke’s research, teaching, and community work are centrally rooted in relations to people and place across southwestern Wisconsin and the Great Lakes, and organized around the questions of how people change rivers and how rivers change people.