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This all happens in one December evening: dinner, movie, panel discussion, book signing. The movie is John Ford's The Searchers. Panelists include best-selling author Glenn Frankel and PCS, moderated by Smithsonian curator Jim Deutsch. Fri Dec 5, 7pm, NMAI DC.12/5/2014
Four Days!Two Cities! That Are in Two Different Canadian Provinces! Crazy! They call it Stronger Than Stone: (Re)Inventing the Indigenous Monument. Calgary and Saskatoon Fri Nov 21 11/21/2014
One Night Only: PCS at the Art Conversation Series, MacKenzie Art Gallery: Wednesday November 19. Where? Regina, Saskatchewan, 5:30 pm. Pizza will be available for a nominal fee. 11/19/2014
PCS in Vancouver! University of British Columbia Thu Oct 24, 5:30 pm 10/24/2013
PCS author talk at DC’s Martin Luther King Memorial Library Tue Nov 13, 7 pm 11/13/2012
Exclusive: Interview with a Curator07/02/2012
Not just another conference, this one’s a Global Dialogue! “Remixing Art and Indigeneity, Again.” Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. Vancouver. Featuring Tania Willard, Kathleen Ritter, Corrine Hunt, Louie Gong, Skeena Reece, Loretta Todd, Eugenia Kissen, Solen Roth, PCS, Jennifer Kramer, Karen Duffek, Jill Baird, Cris Derksen, and Margaret Grenier. Sat May 12, ten to six. 05/12/2012
The lecture is titled “Making Sense of the New Romanticism: Americans and Indians in the 21st Century.” The venue is Lewis Auditorium, Cornell University. The day is Thu Mar 1. The time is 4:30 pm. 03/01/2012
PCS at University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. Seriously! Thu Feb 16 and Fri Feb 17. No admission fee! 02/16/2012
Now open and not to be missed: Karen Kramer Russell’s highly anticipated Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art, Jan 14 – Apr 29 at Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. Thebook features text by Janet Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Joe Horse Capture, Jessica Horton, Paul Chaat Smith and others. Buy it! 01/14/2012
PCS lecture Thursday, December 1 at Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville, 6 pm, at a venue called the Barn. 12/01/2011
PCS lecture at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore: Monday, November 28, for MICA's new MFA program in Curatorial Practice. 11/28/2011
"Indians of the Future," PCS essay for Kindred Spirits: Native American Influences on 20th Century Art, October 29 2011 through January 14, 2012 at Peter Blum Gallery Soho. 10/29/2011
Western Museums Association: HonoluluSeptember 23-26. Karen Kosasa, Paul Chaat Smith, Phillip Gordon, Jonathan K. Osario on Representing Complexity: Indigenous Peoples, Settler States, Colonial/Occupation Histories and Future Needs. Be there! 09/23/2011
PCS is most definitely attending Essentially Indigenous? Contemporary Native Arts Symposium, May 5-6, New York. 05/06/2011
PCS reviews the new Geraldine Brooks novel, Caleb’s Crossing, in the Washington Post. It’s pretty good! 04/28/2011
Jeffrey Gibson, Paul Chaat Smith, Rebecca Belmore, Eliza Naranjo Morse at University of New Mexico, March 23 to April 27, for the Gale Memorial Lecture Series. 04/06/2011
Paul Chaat Smith, Howie Miller, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Crazy Horse on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge.” Listen here. 03/06/2011
Lecture at Alberta College of Art and Design! Calgary! Thursday, February 24. 02/24/2011
Another lecture at Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton! Not free! Wednesday, February 23. 02/23/2011
Global Art Histories/Multiple Modernities: PCS presenting at College Art Association, New York. Free and open to the public! Thursday, February 10. 02/10/2011
Banff! Presenting at "Are Curators Unprofessional" symposium. Friday November 12. 11/12/2010
Vancouver: PCS at the Emily Carr Speaker Series Wednesday November 10. 11/10/2010
PCS speaks at Aurora University's Schingoethe Museum.That's Illinois, baby! Thursday November 4, 7 pm sharp, in the Perry Theater. 11/04/2010
Talk atUniversity of Ohio, Athens. 10/20/2010
PCS interview in American Indian News Service. 06/08/2010
PCS presents at UC Santa Cruz conference “The Task of the Curator.” 05/14/2010
National Post reviews Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort. 05/11/2010
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort subject of Art in America feature story! 05/01/2010
Book reading at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center. 04/24/2010
Nervously presents at SI online conference “Problem Solving with Smithsonian Experts.” 04/13/2010
PCS remembers Wilma Mankiller @ CNN.com. 04/08/2010
Artforum reviews Jungen show! 04/02/2010
Attend opening for “Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor” at NMAI New York. 03/04/2010
PCS interview in FLAB magazine. 02/28/2010
Attends opening for Maggie Michael: Tattoos of Ships at George Mason University. 01/20/2010
Minneapolis: reading at fundraiser for The Circle newspaper, visit with Brenda Child’s students at U of M. 11/22/2009
Keynote at Eiteljorg! 11/13/2009
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort reviewed on front page of Washington Post’s Style section. Full color! 10/20/2009
Louise Erdrich awards stars to Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong. 10/19/2009
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort on NPR’s Weekend Edition. 10/17/2009
PCS introduces Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev at Hirshhorn’s Meet the Artist event with Brian Jungen. 10/16/2009
Panel discussion for amazing Culture Warriors show of aboriginal art at American University. 10/14/2009
PCS quoted in Washington Post story about the art collection in the Obama White House. 10/07/2009
“American Amnesia, American Indians, and You,” lecture at California State University, Bakersfield. 09/29/2009
PCS on J. Kehaulani Kauanui’s post-punk radio show Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond. 08/25/2009
PCS reveals his next project on Washington Post books blog. 06/02/2009
Interviewed on WAMU’s Metro Connections. 05/22/2009
Book signing at the historic first official meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Minneapolis. 05/19/2009
National broadcast of Episode Five: Wounded Knee, the final chapter in American Experience’s We Shall Remain series. PCS a talking head and creative consultant. 05/11/2009
Reading and signing at Politics & Prose, DC’s finest bookstore. 05/02/2009
Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong chosen as Native America Calling’s book of the month. 04/29/2009
Reading and signing at Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts. 04/23/2009
Packed reading and signing at NMAI World Headquarters. 04/18/2009