EVENTS

This virtual event series explores how place-names anchor us to place. What is the ideological function of place-names? What struggles over place-names are currently ongoing, and how are artists, scientists, scholars, and communities taking part? How might campaigns to change place-names be situated within a broader emancipatory project—of remapping the world as a world in common, beyond domination, enclosure and extraction?

Photo of billboard framed by Black Hills landscape

Welcome to He Sapa: A Living Legacy of Resistance

October 9, 20262pm ET / 11am PT | Online

Held in conjunction with the billboard campaign “Welcome to He Sapa. You’re on Stolen Land,” this roundtable brings together Lakota artists, activists, and knowledge-holders to connect present-day mining struggles with generations of Indigenous-led resistance—and the ongoing work to reclaim, protect, and steward the Black Hills for future generations.

DETAILS

The Other 250: America from Below

July 15, 20261pm PT/ 4pm ET | Online

This roundtable asks what it means to resist official commemoration at a time of authoritarian backlash—and how counter-histories of Indigenous sovereignty, Black freedom struggle, abolition, anticolonial resistance, and popular education can help orient our struggles for justice and freedom in the years ahead.

DETAILS

National Parks, Place Names, and #Landback

**POSTPONED** — Date & Time TBD

Place renaming campaigns are not just efforts to make federal lands more inclusive, they are also stepping stones on the path to Indigenous co-governance and #landback.

DETAILS

The movement to rename U.S. mountains, rivers, valleys

April 19, 202212 pm PT/ 3 pm ET | Online

Thousands of mountains, valleys and rivers located on public lands have names that are derogatory, racist or just plain offensive. Learn what you can do about it.

DETAILS

What’s in a name? Words as Monuments

Date TBD | Online

Hear from artists and activists whose interventions reimagine monuments and maps, affirming the signposts and wayfinding signs that point to a world beyond the colonial enclosure.

DETAILS

Words are Ideas: Ideology in Language and Place names

Date TBD | Online

How is ideology—the frame through which we see, understand, and relate to the world—embedded not only in naming practices, but also, more broadly, in the language and words we use to express ourselves?

DETAILS

Remapping the World: the Global Context

Date TBD | Online

From post-apartheid South Africa to occupied Palestine, from Tahrir Square to Tibet to ongoing efforts to restore Te Reo Māori toponyms, place-names have been meaningful symbolic fronts of anti-colonial struggle.

DETAILS