UPCOMING EVENTS

ISN PROGRAM AT APSA 2009

WSSA 2009 AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES SECTION PROGRAM

ISN PROGRAM AT APSA 2009

ISN PROGRAM AT APSA 2009

The Indigenous Studies Network is seeking paper proposals and volunteers to serve as panel chairs and paper discussants for the 2009 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting in Toronto, September 3-6, 2009. The theme for the upcoming annual meeting of APSA is "Politics in Motion: Change and Complexity in the Contemporary Era." Papers on any aspect of Indigenous politics are always welcome but we are particularly interested in those that speak to this year’s theme. Questions that speak to this theme include, but are not limited to, the following: Speaking to the issue of change: What is new, different, and/or unusual about indigenous politics domestically and/or internationally? How has the study of indigenous identity and politics changed over time? What positive and/or negative developments influence the study of indigenous issues? What new methodologies are especially appropriate for approaching the study of indigenous issues? Speaking to the issue of complexity: How is the study of indigenous identities and politics different from the study of race and ethnicity? What makes indigenous politics, issues, and identities more complex? What are some of the complexities that arise in researching indigenous identity and politics? How can we make our work more relevant to race and ethnicity scholars and/or public policy? Deadline for submissions is December 15. To make paper or panel proposals, or for more information, contact ISN Program Coordinators: Darlene Williams: williamsd018@hawaii.rr.com, and Stephanie DiAlto, sdialto@uci.edu. (for the 2010 meeting in Washington, D.C. Anne F. Boxberger Flaherty (Duke University) and Sheryl Lightfoot (University of Minnesota) will serve as the ISN program co-coordinators).

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WSSA 2009 AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES SECTION PROGRAM, April 15-18, 2009

The American Indian Studies Section of the Western Social Science Association, at its 51st meeting, expects to again have a full program of panels at the association's meeting at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, in Albuquerque, April 15-18, Paper/panel proposals for the American Indian Studies Section can either be submitted on line by going to: http://wssa.asu.edu/wssa_conference.htm, or by sending them (preferably by E-mail) to AIS section coordinator Tom Hoffman <dr_tomh@swbell.net. Deadline for proposals, including abstracts, will be no earlier than November 1. Information, which will eventually include the preliminary program, can be accessed on line at: http://wssa.asu.edu.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS

There are several American Indian Health Policy Symposiums around the country each year. A list is posted at: http://www.aihmp.com/conference.html. The South Dakota American Indian Health Policy Symposium will be in August. For details go to: http://www.aihmp.com/2008-may-dakota.html. The 2008 Oklahoma Symposium will be in November. Details can be found at: http://www.aihmp.com/2008-aug-oklahoma.html.

A list of indigenous Language Conferences is kept at the Teaching Indigenous Languages web site at Northern Arizona University: http://www2.nau.edu/jar/Conf.html.

The Fall 2008 California Indian Conference will be at UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, October 2-4. Cliff Tafzer is the organizer. For information, contact conference organizer, Clifford Trafzer, (951)827-1974, History, Costo Professor of American Indian Affairs, University of California, Riverside, clifford.trafzer@ucr.edu.

Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 Meeting, is October 16-17, 2008 at the Radison Fort McDowell Resort and Casino, Scottsdale/Fountain Hills, AZ. For details call (480) 965-7715, or go to: http://ilp.law.asu.edu/.

The National Indian Education Association Conference: Crossroads - Pulling Together our Indigenous Knowledge is at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, WA, October 23-26, 2008. For details go to: http://www.niea.org/events/overview.php.

The Inaugural Indigenous Language Revitalisation and Teaching Conference is October 30-November 2 2008, with events from October 27 – November 4, in Mangtu, Te Tai Rāwhiti/East Coast, Aotearoa/New Zealand, put on by Te Ataarangi. For more information go to: http://www.teataarangi.org.nz/conference.

The Oklahoma American Indian Health Policy Symposiums will be in November. Details can be found at: http://www.aihmp.com/2008-aug-oklahoma.html.

The National Center for the Great Lakes Native American Culture, Inc (NCGLNAC), Lecture Series session 3 will have Robin McBride discussing the fur trade era and its impact on Native peoples, November 1, 5:00 pm, as part of the NCGLNAC annual Friendship Fire, November 1-2, at the Jay Historical Society in Portland, IN. For more information contact National Center for the Great Lakes Native American Culture, Inc., P.O. Box 1063, Portland, IN, 47371, (765)426-3022, www.ncglac.org, or Kay Neumayr: gkn278@yahoo.com.

The 8^th Annual Critical Race and Anticolonial Studies Conference of Researchers and Academics of Color for Equality (RACE): “Rac-ing Hegemonies, Resurging Imperialisms, Building Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Theory and Practice for Our Times” is November 7-9, 2008 at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. For details contact Dr. Sedef Arat-Koc, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada (416)979-5000 ext. 7338, saratkoc@politics.ryerson.ca.

The 3rd Annual Native American Indian Education Conference will be held, November 14, 2008 at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). This year the theme of the conference is Native Americans and New Media. For details contact Charmayne Champion-Shaw: championshaw@yahoo.com.

The 4^th Annual Native American Women Conference, “Surviving and Persevering in This Difficult Time,” is scheduled for November 18-19, 2008 at the Prescott Resort Conference Center, Yavapai-Prescott Reservation.. For details contact Arizona Indian Women In Action, P. O. Box 53999 MS 8010, Phoenix, AZ 85072-3999 (928)526-6755, admin@arizonaiwia.org, http://www.arizonaiwia.org/.

The 2008 World Indigenous Peoples Congress on Education (WIPCE) is December 7-11 on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation, Melbourne, Australia. For details go to: www.wipce2008.com.

Conferences of the International Society for Language Studies: Beginning in 2009, conferences will be held on a two-year cycle (every other year) with publication of the annual volume series Readings in Language Studies to be of primary focus during the intervening year. Consistent with these changes, the 2008 conference planned for New York has been cancelled, to be rescheduled for spring of 2009 at a location to be announced. For information contact International Society for Language Studies, c/o OSBORN, Graduate School of Education, Fordham University, 113 W. 60th Street, Room 1102, New York, NY 10023, conf2009@isls-inc.org, http://www.isls-inc.org/conference/conference.html.

The 2009 conference of the National Association of Native American Studies will be held February 9-14, at the Baton Rouge Marriott, Baton Rouge, LA. For information contact: Dr. Lemuel Berry, Jr., Executive Director, NANAS, P.O. Box 325, Biddeford, ME 04005-0325 (207}839-8004, Fax: 207/839-3776, naaasconference@earthlink.net, www.NAAAS.org.

The 2009 Indigenous Professor's Association (IPA) likely will be in Lawrence, KS, hosted by Haskell Indian Nations University and the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas. For information contact Julia GoodFox: jgoodfox@HASKELL.edu. A listing may be at: http://www.news.ku.edu/2005/april/19/native.shtml.

Bilingual Education: Strengthening America Through a Multilingual Society! is February 18-21, 2009, Austin, TX. For information go to: http://www.nabe.org/conference.html.

Native/Indigenous Studies Area of the 2009 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association's 30th annual meeting will be in February 24-28, in Albuquerque, NM at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque. Deadline is November 15 for proposals for Panels and Individual Papers for the Native/Indigenous Studies Area. Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to L. Rain Cranford-Gomez
Area Co-Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences ohoyocreole@gmail,com. Deadline for conference registration may be December 31. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://sarasutlercohen.com/Projects.html and at http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/.

The 23rd Annual Reservation Economic Summit (RES 2009) and American Indian Business Trade Fair is March 9-12, 2009, at the Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, NV. For details contact NCAIED, 1601 S. 129 W. Ave, Sand Springs, OK 74063 (888)712-8922, http://www.ncaied.org/.

The 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) will be held at the Hawaii Imin International Conference Center, on the east side of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa campus, from March 12th-14th, 2009. There will also be an optional opportunity to visit Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawai'i, in an extension of the conference on the Hawaiian language program, March 16th-17th. For details go to: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09/.

The 5^th Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (CELCNA) is March 27-29, 2009, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, American Philosophical Society, and CAIL (Center for American Indian Languages, University of Utah). For additional information Contact Elizabeth Neilson e.neilson@utah.edu, or, Lyle Campbell at lyle.campbell@linguistics.utah.edu or call: (801)587-0720 or (801)581-3441, http://www.cail.utah.edu/?pageId=1049.

5th Annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference is at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke, April 2-3, 2009. Abstracts should be submitted by December 19, 2008 to Ms. Alesia Cummings, American Indian Studies Department, UNC-Pembroke, P. O. Box 1510, Pembroke, NC 28372, alesia.cummings@uncp.edu. For more information, contact Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs (910)775-4262, mary.jacobs@uncp.edu.

The 2009 National Center for American Indian Enterprise and Development's Reservation Economic Summit and American Indian Business Trade Fair is at the Las Vegas Hilton March 9 - 12, 2009, with a focus on the global marketplace. For more information, call (800)4NCAIED or visit www.ncaied.org.

The NSC Board, on August 9, postponed the 18th Navajo Studies Conference from Oct. 30, 31 and Nov. 1, 2008 to March 12, 13, and 14, 2009 For information contact: Contact: Herbert Benally, co-chair, Hbenally@dinecollege.edu, (505)368-3651; Gloria Emerson, co-chair, asdzaangie@yahoo.com, (505)368-4540 or Alex Mitchell, committee member (928)724-6654.

The National Center for the Great Lakes Native American Culture, Inc (NCGLNAC), Academic Conference, with a focus on Native American Astronomy, is April 18, 2008, at the Jay Historical Society in Portland, IN. For more information contact National Center for the Great Lakes Native American Culture, Inc., P.O. Box 1063, Portland, IN, 47371, (765)426-3022, www.ncglac.org, or Kay Neumayr: gkn278@yahoo.com.

2009 Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference is May 21-23, 2009 at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, hosted by the American Indian Studies Department at the University of Minnesota: http://amin.umn.edu/NAIS2009/. Paper proposals are due by December 1, 2008. For more information go to the web site or contact Heather Dorr, UMN College of Continuing Education, at cceconf3@umn.edu.

International Conference on Minority Languages XII is May 28-30, 2009, Tartu, Estonia. For details go to: http://www.icml.ut.ee/,

The International Society for Language Studies will hold its 2009 Conference June 11-13, 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Orlando Universal, 7800 Universal Boulevard, Orlando, Florida. The theme of the conference will be “Critical Language Studies: Focusing on Power.” For details go to: http://www.isls-inc.org/conference.htm.

American Indian Teacher Education Conference is at the College of Education, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, June 12-13, 2009. For more information contact Jon.Reyhner@nau.edu.

The 35th Anniversary International Indian Treaty Council Conference, will likely be in June. Details will eventually be posted at: http://www.treatycouncil.org.

The Society of American Indian Government Employees (SAIGE) is a national non-profit organization that advocates for American Indian and Alaska Native federal employees. SAIGE will host its 6th annual national joint training conference with the American Indian Alaska Native Employees Association (AIANEA), in the summer of 2009. For information contact Society of American Indian Government Employees, P.O. Box 7715, Washington, D.C. 20044, www.saige.org, or Youth Coordinator JoAnn Brant (202)564-0375, brant.joann@epa.gov, or www.aianea.org.

The Tenth Annual Conference for American Indian Families, “For All My Relations,” will probably be in July. For information contact NIJC staff at (707)579-5507, nijc@aol.com, www.NIJC.org, click Training Schedule.

The Fourth Annual Vine Deloria, Jr. Indigenous Studies Symposium tentatively is at Northwest Indian College, July, 9-11 2009. For details and reservations contact Steve Pavlik, Co-coordinator, Native American Studies, Northwest Indian College, 2533 Kwina Rd., Bwllingham, WA 98226 (360)392-4307, spavlik@nwic.edu.

The 17th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference and Western Symposium on Language Issues (WeSLI) is June 17-20, 2010, at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. For details go to: http://www.uoregon.edu/~nwili/wesli2010/.

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