The 2025 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography on Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation will be given by Kelly Wisecup, Associate Professor of English, Northwestern University. 

In this final lecture, Wisecup examines Indigenous periodical print cultures alongside woodpulp papermaking at the turn of the 20th century. Birchbark substrates were refigured in early 20th century narratives, as indicated by settler authors’ citations of birchbark pages on woodpulp paper and in forms ranging from nostalgic pastorals to paper company’s promotional materials to industrial romances. Wisecup concludes with a look at how Indigenous artists remediate birchbark forms and thereby gesture to the intertwined histories of paper and birchbark pages.