Jantz Lecture / Joy Harjo

Friday, April 23, 2027 at 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Location: Hall Auditorium, 67 N. Main St., Oberlin

The Allen is pleased to announce the 2027 Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture with a talk/performance by Joy Harjo, internationally acclaimed poet, musician, and author. Harjo was the first Native American (Muscogee Nation) to serve as the Poet Laureate of the United States for three separate terms. She has published 11 books of poetry, plays the saxophone and flute, and received numerous honors. Harjo’s work spans a wide variety of art forms, themes, and advocacy, weaving together Native American stories and themes of the human experience from a feminist lens. This event is organized in conjunction with the Allen’s exhibition The land is a being who remembers everything, whose title comes from Harjo's poem “Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.”

Access statement: This event will be held in a wheelchair- and rolling walker-accessible building. The lecture space is wheelchair accessible, with moveable seating. Restrooms are gender-specific and wheelchair-accessible. Listening devices will be available for use during the presentation, but ASL interpretation is currently not scheduled for this event. Most talks will be recorded and available with closed captions on the museum’s YouTube page after the event. Please email access questions to Jill Greenwood, jgreenwo@oberlin.edu.

Image description: A person with long dark hair and deep red lipstick stands in front of an exposed brick wall, wearing a red satin blouse and long beaded fringe earrings in teal, coral, and cream tones. Their clasped hands show intricate black tattoo work on both hands and wrists, along with several rings. Soft natural light comes in from a window to the left, and they gaze calmly toward the camera.