2021 CHCI Annual Meeting Keynotes: Natalie Diaz and Warwick Anderson
Focused on the theme of "Ruptures/Responses," the 2021 CHCI Annual Meeting will bring together scholars, students, administrators, and practitioners to reflect on the multiple disruptions that have defined the past twelve months and look to the future of the humanities.
This year's program will feature keynote presentations by:
- Natalie Diaz(May 19)
- Warwick Anderson(May 20)
Registration is open and member organizations can send an unlimited number of a delegates for a single registration fee.
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About the Speakers
Natalie Diaz, Arizona State University
Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Diaz’s second collection, Postcolonial Love Poem is forthecoming from Graywolf Press in 2020. She is a Macarthur Foundation Fellow, Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a U.S. Artists Ford Fellowship, and Princeton University’s Hodder Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program
Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney
Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and leader of the Politics, Governance and Ethics Theme with the Charles Perkins Centre. From 2012-17 Warwick Anderson was ARC Laureate Fellow in the Department of History and the Center for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. Additionally, he has an affiliation with the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney and is a Professorial Fellow of the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne. In 2018-19 he will be the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University. As an historian of science, medicine and public health, focusing on Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the United States, Professor Anderson is especially interested in ideas about race, human difference, and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Occasionally he writes programmatically on postcolonial science studies and, more generally, on science and globalisation.