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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"'>Native Studies
Research Network, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>further
details: <a href="http://www.nsrn-uk.org/"><span style='color:#0000CC'>http://www.nsrn-uk.org/</span></a></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Call
for Papers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Indigenous
Bodies: Reviewing, Relocating, Reclaiming<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An
international conference hosted by the Native Studies Research Network, UK, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>University
of East Anglia, Norwich <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>July
8-10, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>The Native Studies Research Network, UK, invites proposals for
papers for its second international conference and would especially welcome
contributions from indigenous scholars. Established in April 2006, the NSRN
currently has 87 members, working at 37 UK institutions in 11 academic
disciplines. Having organized regular annual colloquia in London every
September since 2006, and an international conference in Geneva in July 2007,
the NSRN will now host its first UK based international conference. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>This interdisciplinary conference will interrogate wide ranging
presentations and representations of indigenous bodies by both Natives and
non-Natives, in historical and contemporary contexts. The conference is
particularly concerned with the native body as a site of persistent
fascination, colonial oppression, and indigenous agency, and the endurance of
these legacies within native communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Keynote Speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Carter Revard, Osage Poet, writer and scholar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Mick Gidley, University of Leeds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Debbie Reese, University of Illinois <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>(One other keynote to be confirmed)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>We invite papers focusing on indigenous communities in the
Americas and Australasia exploring a wide range of topics</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> including but not
limited to:</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Indigenous
performance and body art<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Racialised
indigenous bodies (including African-Native)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Indigenous
bodies in visual arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Commercialising
and appropriating indigenous bodies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Confining
indigenous bodies (reservations, prisons, schools, forts, clothes)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Indigenous
bodies in material culture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sexualised
indigenous bodies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Locating
and relocating indigenous bodies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Indigenous
bodies in museums<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Indigenous
political bodies (communities, councils, activism)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Papers
should be 20 minutes long. Please email a 250 word abstract, accompanied by a
short curriculum vita to both:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jacqueline
Fear-Segal (<a href="mailto:j.fear-segal@uea.ac.uk">j.fear-segal@uea.ac.uk</a>)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and
Rebecca Tillett (<a href="mailto:r.tillett@uea.ac.uk">r.tillett@uea.ac.uk</a>)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
deadline for these is February 14<sup>th</sup>, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It
is planned to publish a book of selected papers, edited by Fear-Segal and
Tillett [with support from the British Academy].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Travel
Arrangements:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
The University of East Anglia </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>is in Norwich, just 20 minutes
from Norwich Airport with direct flights to Amsterdam, connecting to major
world cities.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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