Call for Papers: "Breaking Borders: Indigenous Peoples Across the Divide"
2008 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
February 24–28, 2009
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association’s
30th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM
Paper proposals are now being accepted for a panel dedicated to issues of physical borders, from a Hemispheric and Indigenous perspective. Proposals should engage border policies and cultures of the Americas and Canada and lend critical analyses to the concept of Nationalism concerning both Indigenous and non-Native perspectives.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: December 15, 2008.
Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are welcome and encouraged:
· Defining Mestizo Peoples across the Southern Border
· Indigenous Border Cultures
· Métis/métis Canadian Communities
· Mestizo Peoples of the Southern U.S. (Creoles, Cajuns, Redbones etc)
· Métis Communities of the U.S. Great Lakes
· State and Federal Recognition
· Indigenous Descended Families Across Borders
· American Indian and Mestizo conflicts and camaraderie
· First Nation Peoples and Métis conflicts and camaraderie
Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to L. Rain Cranford-Gomez. Please forward this email to people who would be interested in participating.
LRC Gomez
Area Chair, Native Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
lcranford-gomez@connellyhs.org
ohoyocreole@gmail.com
American Literature and Language Arts
Cornelia Connelly School
The 2009 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque. Join us this year, as a returning or first-time participant, as we celebrate the 30th year 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.h-net.org/~swpca/.
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