UPDATE: Pathways: American Indian Studies (grad) (10/15/03; 4/23/04-4/25/04)

CFP: UPDATE- Pathways: A Graduate Student Conference on American Indian
Studies (10/15/03; 4/23-25/04)

Please note addition of info on keynote speaker.
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The graduate students of the American Studies, African American Studies
and History Departments at Yale University invite submissions for the
upcoming conference- Pathways: A Graduate Conference on American Indian
Studies to be held April 23-25, 2004. The purposes of this conference
are: to provide a comfortable forum for graduate students working
within some aspect of American Indian Studies (AIS) to share their work
with one another, to foster student-to-student and student-to-
professional relationships by encouraging networking and community-
building for those working within AIS, to educate graduate students
working in AIS about the process of professionalization through
traditional and alternate career paths at colleges, universities,
libraries, museums, tribal/national institutions, and non-profit
organizations, to collaborate with undergraduates and members of local
communities on issues pertinent to American Indian people and AIS, and
to discuss, assess, and actively shape the future of AIS as a field.
We are very pleased to announce that Devon Mihesuah (Choctaw), noted
historian and professor of Applied Indigenous Studies at Northern
Arizona University, will be our keynote speaker. Professor Mihesuah is
the editor of American Indian Quarterly, and has authored and edited
numerous books, including Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of
Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909 (1993), Natives and
Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians (1998),
Indigenous North American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism
(2003), and Indigenizing the Academy: Native Scholars and Scholarship
on Natives (forthcoming sequel to Natives and Academics).

Graduate student papers are invited on any topic within American Indian
Studies from any disciplinary approach. Preference will be given to
explicitly interdisciplinary work. We are especially desirous of
papers that demonstrate and discuss emergent approaches in AIS, and/or
those that demonstrate an active involvement with American Indian
communities. In order to foster a regionally diverse community of
graduate student presenters, travel expenses will be paid for students
whose papers are selected.

Abstracts of 500 words should be mailed by October 15, 2003 to Angela
Pulley Hudson, American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.
E-mail by attachment or in the body of the message to:
angela.pulley_at_yale.edu.

Pathways is sponsored by The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library-
Western Americana Collection, The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study
of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University, The Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences, and The Association of Native Americans at Yale.

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