CFP: Native/Indigenous Studies (11/1/03; SWPCA, 4/7/04-4/10/04)

From: Sara Sutler-Cohen (saracher@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Sun Aug 03 2003 - 13:14:14 EDT


***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***

Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area

2004 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
25th Annual Conference, held in conjunction with the National Popular
Culture/American Culture Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas

April 7-10, 2004

Proposals 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. The deadline for submitting
proposals is November 1, 2003.

   Indigenous Methodologies
   Indians in Higher Education
   Teaching Introduction to Native American Studies
   Biography, autobiography, and nonfiction works by and/or about Indigenous people
   Popular culture and religion (or, religious popular culture!)
   Native peoples in/and film
   Native representations in popular culture (television, comic books, video/computer games, film, etc…)
   Politics and Native peoples
   Indigenous resistance, regional or global (whaling/fishing rights, incarceration issues, sports mascots, etc.)
   More ideas encouraged!
   IMPORTANT NOTE: A new Area has been established, “American Indians Today”, headed up by Area Chair, Richard Allen. For inquiries, please contact Richard Allen at rallen@cherokee.org.

Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to
Sara C. Sutler-Cohen at the email or physical address below. Please
include a current curriculum vitae and a working bibliography for your
paper, where applicable. Please forward this email to people who would be
interested in participating. Thanks!

Sara C. Sutler-Cohen
Area Chair, Native Studies
432-A Lagunitas Avenue
Oakland, CA
510-852-5171
saracher@sbcglobal.net

The 2004 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas, at
the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter Hotel, on the Riverwalk. Join us this
year, as a returning or first-time participant, as we celebrate a
quarter-century of this regional popular culture conference. Further
details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel,
registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.swtexaspca.org.
PLEASE NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS JANUARY 1, 2004.

Sara Sutler-Cohen
Dept. of Sociology
UC Santa Cruz
Phone: 510 852 5171
Fax: 510 645 1041

"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."
~Lily Tomlin

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