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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!
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.
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