Native/Indigenous Studies Area: 2012 SW/TX PCA/ACA February 8-11, 2012

Native/Indigenous Studies Area: 2012 SW/TX PCA/ACA February 8-11, 2012

Location:	New Mexico, United States
Call for Papers Date:	2011-12-01 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	2011-08-08
Announcement ID:	187091

2012 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association February 8-11, 2012

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's 33rd Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM at Hyatt Regency EMAIL 250-word abstract to: nativestudiespca@gmail.com Come present your paper with us! 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 welcomed and encouraged. Paper topics can include transnational and international Indigenous Peoples’ issues.

DEADLINE December 1, 2011.

●Indigenous Methodologies and Interpretative Frameworks
●Teaching Popular Culture in Native American Studies
●Life Writing and Native Literature
●Native Art and Artists
●Native peoples across borders: racial/physical/economic/political… etc.
●Native representations in popular culture (television, comic books, graphic novels, video/computer games, etc.)
●Sci-Fi and Speculative Fiction
●Indigenizing Popular Culture
●Popular Culture and Language Preservation
●Indigenous Cuisine and Cooking
●Community Empowerment
●Indigenous resistance, regional or global (treaty rights, incarceration issues, sports mascots, etc.)
●Animal Studies and Native Studies Intersections
●Native Peoples’ relationships with various Communities of Color
●Structural Inequalities, Social Institutions, and Indigenous Peoples
●Landscapes and Indigenous Ecologies
●Travel, Tourism, and Indigenous Nations
●Native Sovereignty through Television and Internet
●Cyberculture and Social Media
●Queer Theory and Native Studies
●MORE IDEAS ENCOURAGED

Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to Brian Hudson and Margaret Vaughan at this email nativestudiespca@gmail.com

Please forward this information to people who would be interested in participating. Area-Co Chairs, Native Studies and Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
●Brian Hudson, University of Oklahoma, English Department
●Margaret Vaughan, Metropolitan State University, Ethnic and Religious Studies Department The 2012 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 33rd year of this regional popular culture conference. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) will be posted at http://www.swtxpca.org/

Margaret Vaughan
Area Co-Chair,
Native/Indigenous Studies
Metropolitan State University
Ethnic Studies
700 East Seventh Street
St. Paul, MN 55106

Brian Hudson
Area Co-Chair,
Native/Indigenous Studies,
University of Oklahoma
English Department
760 Van Vleet Oval, Gittinger Hall
Norman, OK 73019
Email: nativestudiespca@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://swtxpca.org/documents/pages.html

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