In the fall of 2023, the Rethinking Place crafted this syllabus on settler-colonial theory. Sections include "Foundational Theory" and "Solidarities."

The below syllabus was created in collaboration with the speakers of our Rethinking Place 2023 Conference Indigenous Research Methods & Practice in the Liberal Arts: Refusal, Creation & Intersectionality. Recordings are available to view on the conference page.

Rethinking the Bard Narrative: Public Writing, Zines and Place-Based Research: Zines are sites of communal archiving, re-narrativization, and radical reimaginings for our future. Written by Justin Paulino '25 and Leila Stallone '24, along with advising from Rethinking Place staff Olivia Tencer '22 and Melina Roise '21,  these three zines were created within this two-year project to explore and re-frame the narratives of Bard historic sites. Utilizing Black and Indigenous frameworks and archival research, the zine project is an attempt to make historically excluded narratives more visible. The locations of the zine include Bard “landmarks” Cruger Island, Montgomery Place and Blithewood. 

Guiding questions and resources for intentional research practices. Made by the Rethinking Place post-baccalaureate and post-doctoral fellows.

Made by our colleagues at Williams College.

Resources on actions for unlearning Thanksgiving & observing the National Day of Mourning. Visual by Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Fellow Talaya Robinson-Dancy.

Support for learning, acknowledging, grieving, and advocating against the ongoing femicide of Indigenous women & 2Spirit peoples.

Bard College is located in the unceded homelands of the Stockbridge Munsee Nation. The nation is currently based in Wisconsin.

Forge Project is a Native-led initiative centered on Indigenous art, decolonial education, and supporting leaders in culture, food security, and land justice. Located on the unceded homelands of the Muh-he-con-ne-ok in Upstate New York, Forge Project works to upend political and social systems formed through generations of settler colonialism.

With a mission to develop a network of public programming focused on arts, education, and advocacy in Native American and Indigenous Studies, the Center for Indigenous Studies expanded its work in November, 2022 following a transformational gift from the Gochman Family Foundation. The Center for Indigenous Studies continues and expands upon the work of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.