Apr 9
The Right to Mystery: Indigenous Approaches to Technology, Media, and Memory
Thu, April 9, 2026
• 4:30pm
- 5:30pm (1h) • Leighton Hall 305
The American Studies program invites you to a talk by Dr. Kaylen James titled The Right to Mystery: Indigenous Approaches to Technology, Media, and Memory. How might we rethink digital media and computing through Indigenous ways of knowing? This talk challenges the assumptions built into many contemporary technologies--such as speed, efficiency, and constant access--and offers alternative frameworks grounded in Oceti Sakowin and place-based perspectives. By centering values like relationality, mystery, and slowness, this talk imagines more ethical and meaningful approaches to designing and engaging digital technologies and media from an Indigenous worldview.
This talk is sponsored by the American Studies program and the Indigenous Engagement in Place grant.
from American Studies
Event Contact: Lisa Falconer