Jojola to Deliver Etulain Lecture in History

Ted Jojola, Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor, Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico School of Archi­tec­ture and Plan­ning, presents the 2012 Richard W. Etu­latin Lec­ture, “Indige­nous Real­i­ties: Plan­ning for the Next Mil­len­nium,” Thurs­day, Nov. 8, at 5:30 p.m. in the George Pearl Hall audi­to­rium. George Pearl Hall is located on Cen­tral Ave., between Stan­ford and Cor­nell, on the UNM campus.

Resilience and adap­ta­tion are hall­marks of indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties. Their con­nec­tions to place have evolved and devolved over time in a way char­ac­ter­is­tic of Pitirim Sorokin’s cycli­cal the­ory of change. Their iden­ti­ties have sim­i­larly trans­formed in a man­ner rem­i­nis­cent of Carl Jung’s the­o­ries of the col­lec­tive uncon­scious­ness and indi­vid­u­a­tion. This all goes by way of say­ing that indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties as “tribal peo­ple” are faced with reassert­ing them­selves onto the next mil­len­nium, or what is col­lec­tively known as the 5th world.

Jojola shares his own insights about the upcom­ing epoch as based on a 7 Gen­er­a­tions Plan­ning and Design par­a­digm. He draws upon exam­ples that indige­nous peo­ple deploy in rethink­ing and remak­ing their com­mu­ni­ties.
 
Jojola, who is also a is a Regents Pro­fes­sor, is on fac­ulty of the Com­mu­nity and Regional Plan­ning Pro­gram. From 2008–2010, he was Vis­it­ing Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor at Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity for the School Geo­graphic Sci­ences and Plan­ning, dur­ing which time he was in res­i­dence for the spring semesters.

He is the for­mer direc­tor of the UNM Native Amer­i­can Stud­ies pro­gram (1980–1996). He is actively involved in major research projects on Indian edu­ca­tion, tribal com­mu­nity devel­op­ment and con­tem­po­rary indige­nous archi­tec­ture. He has pub­lished numer­ous arti­cles and chap­ters on top­ics relat­ing to indige­nous plan­ning, stereo­typ­ing and eco­nomic devel­op­ment. Jojola is the past-chair and cofounder of the Indige­nous Plan­ning Divi­sion, Amer­i­can Plan­ning Association.

He cur­rently directs the Indige­nous Design and Plan­ning Insti­tute, School of Archi­tec­ture and Plan­ning. He is an enrolled mem­ber of the Pueblo of Isleta where he cur­rently resides.
 
This event is free and open to the pub­lic; a recep­tion fol­lows the lecture.

For more infor­ma­tion on the 2012 Richard W. Etu­lain Lec­ture, or other events spon­sored by the Cen­ter for the South­west, click to email or call 505–277-4344.

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