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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#FFC000">15TH Annual American Indian Studies Association Conference</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#FFC000">February 6 - 7, 2014 — Tempe, AZ</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light";color:#5B9BD5">CONFERENCE THEME:</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light";color:#5B9BD5"> Activism: Continuity, Resistance, Obligation</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Activism, viewed broadly, has its roots and motivations in maintaining, protecting, revitalizing, and strengthening American Indian nations, cultures, languages, knowledge, sovereignty,
lands and spaces. American Indian nations and peoples continue to engage in diverse arenas of activism and to develop tactics that seek to protect Indigenous ways of being. While the idea or ideal of activism conjures positive and negative images of political
movements and protests, many other actions constitute acts of activism. Today, many of the challenges of the past remain, yet new, unexpected threats to American Indian survival have emerged.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">This year’s conference looks to explore and broaden discussions about the reasons, motivations, and debates that move different people, organizations, nations and/or communities to challenge
and resist various systems of oppression. What new challenges do American Indian people face in the 21<sup>st</sup> century? How are indigenous peoples generating new paradigms of action as well as maintaining cultural integrity and responsibilities? Why
have the debates about activism among scholars, activists, and communities created contention, and what is at stake in what is contested?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">The organizers of the AISA Conference welcome proposals for paper presentations, panel presentations, round table discussions, and workshops on the following topics:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Development of creative methods of activism or engagement, education, health, research, community development, decolonization, art, literature, technology, leadership, environmental
justice, cultural sustainability, food sovereignty, economic justice, biocolonialism, family issues including women, children, men and elders and domestic violence prevention, human rights, sacred spaces and objects, and Indigenous knowledges.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Consideration will be given to other topics that relate to American Indian issues.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">Please send paper and panel submissions to:
<span style="color:black">Elizabeth P. Martos, Coordinator </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"> American Indian Studies
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"> P.O. Box 874603
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"> Arizona State University
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"> Tempe, AZ 85287-4603
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="color:black"> Email:
<a href="mailto:elizabeth.martos@asu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">elizabeth.martos@asu.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">Please send paper and panel submissions in digital format. Please give a paragraph describing the panel theme, and a list of panel participants, their address and email information, and a 200 word paper abstract.
Please submit paper and panel proposals by <b>November 30, 2013.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Myla Vicenti Carpio, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">American Indian Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Arizona State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">PO Box 874603<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Tempe, AZ 85287-4603<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">(480)727-7989<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies Book Series<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Co-Editor (with Jeffrey Shepherd, UTEP)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy"><a href="http://criticalissuesinindigenousstudies.com/">http://criticalissuesinindigenousstudies.com/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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