
Events
Podcast: "What are Dreams?" With Justin E.H. Smith for The Point Audio. Listen here.
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Podcast: Matthew Spellberg and Richard Sommer. The Roberts Institute of Art. Listen here.
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March 10-14, 2024. "Óoskʼi MOOC Taakw.eetíxʼ: The Little Spring MOOC." Massive Open Online Tlingit Language Course, taught by Yeiltʼoochʼ Tláa, Yeidikookʼáa Dionne Brady-Howard, and Skeiwdusá Matthew Spellberg. Outer Coast Alaska Native Languages Program.
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March 1, 2024. "He Killed Sleep, Sleep Killed Him: Scenes from the Night-Life of Tlingit Oral Tradition," Deanʼs Lecture, St. Johnʼs College, Santa Fe.
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April 23, 2023. "Dream Sharing: A Partial History of the Communal Imagination." California College of the Arts. Watch the recording.
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January 3rd-January 12th, 2023. Outer Coast Tlingit Language Massive Open Online Course. Sign-up here.
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November 8th and 9th, 2022. "On Dreaming and Feasting: Hearths of Tradition in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond," UC Berkeley, History of Art Department.
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September 9th, 2022. "Deikeenaakʼw, Sleep and Story," Sharing Our Knowledge Conference, Wrangell, AK. Watch the recording.
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April 7th, 2022. "Dream Sharing: Greek, Haida and Shaker Examples," Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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November 15th, 2021. "He Killed His Sleep, His Sleep Killed Him: Scenes from the Night-Life of Tlingit Oral Literature." University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology.
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April 16, 2021. "Cultural History of Dream Sharing," Dream Engineering Seminar Series, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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December 11, 2020. "Autobiography and Tlingit Oral Tradition," New School University in Exile Consortium.
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November 24, 2020. “Dreams and the Monument from Shakers to the AIDS Quilt,” Department of Architecture, The Cooper Union.
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November 19, 2020. "Changing Hearts and Minds on Climate Change: A Moment for Reimagining?" Harvard Alumni Association Panel. Watch the recording.
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April 28, 2020. "Landscape and Myth: Two Short Talks on Native American Oral Tradition" (with Maggie Spivey-Faulkner), Technical Landscapes Working Group, History of Science, Harvard University.
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April 22, 2020. "Dream-Sharing: A History and Demonstration," Glass Department, Rhode Island School of Design.
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February 24, 2020. "He Wrecked the Boat. Code-Switching and Self-Translation in Tlingit Oral Literature," Princeton University, Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication.
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February 6, 2020. "Dream Parliament: An Exercise in the Democracy of Sleep," University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.
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October 3, 2019. "Oral Literature, Visual Tradition, and the Theater of Anne Washburn,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Theater.
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October 2, 2019. Angel House: A Conversation with David Leo Rice and Matthew Spellberg, Broadside Bookshop, Northampton, Massachusetts.
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September 27, 2019. "Some Thoughts on Teaching a Masterpiece of Tlingit Oral Literature: Robert Zuboff’s Mosquito,” Sharing Our Knowledge: Tlingit Clan Conference, Juneau, Alaska. Watch the recording.
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April 26, 2019. "A Forest in a Cave: Notes on an Architecture of the Dreamlike," New Circadia Symposium Keynote, University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Design.
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February 7, 2019. “Art and Aliveness in the Pacific Northwest,” Columbia University Seminar on the Arts of Africa, America, and Oceania.
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January 30, 2019. “Dream-Sharing and the Social Imagination,” Yale University Department of Comparative Literature.
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November 6, 2018. “A Parliament of Dreams,” Lecture and Workshop, Parsons School of Design.
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November 1, 2018. “Portrait of the Artist, Self-Crucified: The Life and Work of William Kent,” Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT.
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May 9, 2018. The Best New Work: Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Dramatic Monologue, directed by David Levine, Harvard University Art Museum.
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March 28, 2018. Native American Studies at Harvard. Symposium, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.
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February 28, 2018. “Sleep Sanctuaries and Collective Dreaming," part of the exhibition, "Test Bed: Modern-Day Abaton,” Aronson Gallery, New School, New York.
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February 16, 2018. “Dream-Sharing: A History and Demonstration,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Theater.
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February, 6, 2018. “Dream-Sharing, Mass Media, and the Politics of Collective Imagining,” Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.
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March 16, 2017. “Dream-Parliament,” Lecture and Performance, Cabinet Event Space, New York City. With Cat Powell and David Leo Rice.
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March 22, 2016. “A Parliament of Dreams,” Lecture and Workshop, Princeton University Interdisciplinary Humanities Program.
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2015-2016. New Schools: Experimental Lesson Plans for the 21st-Century Classroom. A year-long pedagogical experiment conceived by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Doctoral Fellows, Princeton University.
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2015-2016. Beauty and the Sacred. Lecture Series in Comparative Literature, Princeton University.
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November 16, 2014. “Dream Communities,” Lecture and Seminar, Deep Springs College.
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August 2, 2014. “Dreaming and Isolation,” Kluane Lake Research Station, Yukon Territory, Canada.
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April 19, 2013. Inside/Outside: Incarceration and Communication. National Conference, University Center for Human Values, Program in the Ethics of Reading, Prison Teaching Initiative, Princeton University.