Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area

13 August 2010
Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area
Deadline: 10 December 2010
Geographical coverage: USA
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): conference papers
Prize/Payment: undisclosed
Contact: L.Rain.C.Gomez@ou.edu

Native/Indigenous Studies Area 2011 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association: Call For Papers

Location: Texas, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2010-12-10

Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area

2011 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
April 20 - 23, 2011 Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association’s 32nd Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX
Joint conference with National PCA/ACA

Proposals for both Panels and Individual Papers are now being accepted for the Native/Indigenous Studies Area. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are welcome and encouraged.

DEADLINE December 10, 2010.

* Indigenous Methodologies
* Indians in Higher Education
* Teaching Popular Culture in Native American Studies
* Biography, autobiography, and nonfiction works by and/or about Indigenous people
* Native Literature
* Public Health and Indigenous Peoples
* Popular culture and religion (or, religious popular culture)
* Native peoples across borders: racial/physical/economic/political… etc
* Native representations in popular culture (television, comic books, video/computer games (etc)
* Politics and Native peoples
* Indigenous Women in Social Work
* Indigenous resistance, regional or global (whaling/fishing, incarceration issues, mascots, etc.)

* Panel CFP: "Breaking Borders: Indigenous Peoples Across the Divide; ""Words of Bone, Songs of Blood: Poetry as Theoretical and Historical Dialogue;" "Native Peoples and Landscapes, Representations, Environmental Policy, and Meanings of Nature;" "Indigenous 'Deep' Space: Indigenous Absence and Presence in Sci-Fi and Comics"

* More ideas encouraged!

Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to Rain Gomez or Citlalin Xochime at the contacts below. Please forward this email to people who would be interested in participating.

Rain C Gomez
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies,
University of Oklahoma English Department
760 Van Vleet Oval, Gittinger Hall
Norman, OK 73019
L.Rain.C.Gomez@ou.edu

Citlalin Xochime
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies,
New Mexico State University, English Department
PO Box 30001, MSC 3E, Las Cruces NM 88003
citlalin@nmsu.edu

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