RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP TALK: MATCHSTICK FOR SURVIVAL: INDIGENOUS WRITING IN THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC

Monday, December 9, 5:00 p.m.

6320 Phelps and Zoom

Presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

Kseniia Bolshakova, an Indigenous activist and writer, will visit as part of the new lecture series, “Children’s Literature, Cultural Preservation, and Language Revitalization,” for a talk on her book The Frost Also Melts. The novel explores the fate of Arctic Indigenous nomads through the personal story of a child raised in a traditional reindeer-herding family in the tundra.