Indigenous Studies

Concerted efforts to study China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at the University began with the major conference, “Complementing and Competing Visions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative,” held on March 2, 2019.

We propose to convene in 2024 an international gathering of scholars and practitioners working across different disciplines in the Amazonian and Andean regions.

This grant will support activities related to an ongoing research project in Tanzania, which explores the concepts of dignity and heritage in Maasai lifeworlds, in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and similar target-based policy initiatives.

CGII funds support participation by Tribal citizens in the Siouan-Caddoan Languages Conference hosted at Brooks Hall May 27–29, 2022.

My project analyzes the spectacular return of the sacred to post-Soviet Russian public sphere following seventy years of forced secularization.

I will travel to Tepotzotlán to visit colonial and baroque art collections that portray skeletal representations of death housed at the Museo Nacional del Virreinato in Mexico.

Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are working with the US Department of State to implement the 2nd Mekong Research Symposium (MRS’19) in Hanoi, Vietnam.

This workshop invites academics, indigenous leaders, and activists to reflect on the current state of UVa/indigenous relations, and to imagine new possibilities.