Proposals for Programming Support

Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck is a three year project which proposes a Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) approach to a revitalized American Studies curriculum and undertakes an expansive understanding of land acknowledgment that goes beyond addressing a single institution’s history in regards to Native peoples. At its core, Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck asks: What would it look like to truly acknowledge the land beneath us, its history, and to collaborate with its continuing stewards? It affirms Bard’s tangible commitments to the principles and ideals of the College’s 2020 land acknowledgment by recognizing the need to address historical erasure and make space for marginalized epistemologies.

Rethinking Place and the Bard Center for Indigenous Studies accept thoughtful proposals engaging with the themes of Rethinking Place and its initiatives. We welcome proposals from all divisions of the college, from faculty,  staff, and students. We especially welcome proposals that creatively and expansively (re)interpret Rethinking Place themes. For more information go to https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/ and https://cfis.bard.edu/  

Relationship building takes time and genuine dedication. While building trust with community partners is imperative, academia has often been a tool of ongoing settler colonialism. Indigenous communities and peoples have long been subject to great harms as a result of extractive and colonial research methods implemented by academic institutions. This google form is meant to be a mechanism for Rethinking Place and the Bard Center for Indigenous Studies to ask our Bard collaborators to share, in good faith, the work that they have done in order to build reciprocal relationships with the communities and individuals they would like to invite to the Bard community. With more information on the collaboration, invitation, or event you are seeking support for, we hope to get back to you within two (2) weeks of your request with our decision and next steps.

Once submitted, please email cfis@bard.edu to alert us on your submission.

Thank you!

Sincerely,

The Rethinking Place Steering Committee and the Bard Center for Indigenous Studies team

Email *
What kind of support are you/your program requesting? *
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In 300 words or less please describe the proposed collaboration. *
In 300 words or less please explain how the idea for this collaboration came about. *
In 300 words or less please describe how the collaboration is solidly contextualized by Bard College’s Land Acknowledgement and the Rethinking Place Initiative. *
What is the proposed budget for this collaboration? Please provide full request and budget breakdown. (only applicable for financial support requests)
Please list three names/emails of individuals who approve, encourage, and support the development of the collaboration. *
Does your event include participation from an Indigenous community or a representative of a tribal nation? *
If yes, please explain in 500 words or less how you have you/your program built and maintained relationships with this community or representative? Your response should answer at the minimum: (1) What do you offer to this relationship? (2) What are you seeking from the community? (3) How have you centered community in this partnership?
Does your event include an Indigenous participant? *
If yes, please include the following information below: (1) Tribal affiliation(s) or Indigenous relations (2) Is the participant a representative of their tribal nation or community? (3) A brief bio of your invited guest.
Will your event include sharing traditional or community knowledge? *
If yes, can you provide us with more information on how you, your invited guest(s), and your audience plan to safeguard these practices and respect the nature of their sensitivity?
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