Dr. Nick Estes (Enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe), Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, will deliver the Lansdowne Lecture for Critical Encounters, on Indigenous Resistance and the Colonialism of Our Times. UPDATE: AS OF MARCH 26, ONLY ONLINE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE Critical Encounters Lansdowne Lecture: Dr. Nick Estes Critical Encounters is a free monthly speaker series hosted by the Critical Humanities Commons dedicated to exploring how humanistic thinking can illuminate, challenge, and shape the world within and beyond the academy. Join us for the last event for this season, a Lansdowne Lecture delivered by Dr. Nick Estes on Indigenous Resistance and the Colonialism of our Times. Nick Estes is an enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and is an Associate Professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He studies colonialism and global Indigenous histories, focusing on decolonization, oral history, U.S. imperialism, environmental justice, anti-capitalism, and the Oceti Sakowin. Estes is the author of the award-winning book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (2019), which places the Indigenous-led movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline into historical context. He co-edited with Jaskiran Dhillon Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement (2019), which draws together more than thirty contributors, including leaders, scholars, and activists of the Standing Rock movement, for a reflection of Indigenous history and politics and on the movement’s significance. Estes co-hosts the Red Nation podcast and is the lead editor of Red Media, an Indigenous-run non-profit media organization that publishes books, videos, and podcasts. Estes is also a member of the Oceti Sakowin Writers Society (formerly Oak Lake Writers Society), a network of Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota writers committed to defend and advance Oceti Sakowin sovereignty, cultures, and histories. He is also an award-winning journalist whose writing has been featured in the Guardian, The Intercept, Jacobin, Indian Country Today, The Nation, NBC News, The Funambulist Magazine, High Country News, and the New Yorker. This event is ASL Accessible Free