[nativestudies-l] Native Studies Panel for the NEASA conference

[Christina Gish Berndt]

Hello all,
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>   I am interested in organizing a panel for the New England American
Studies Association.  The theme for the conference is described below.
 If anyone is interested in putting together a panel on Native
expressions of sovereignty and the violence, negotiation, and
reconstructions that emerge in contestations over sovereignty during
> encounters with both nation-state policy and representatives of the
> nation-state, then I would be interested.  Let me know.
>
> Best,
>
> Christina

Christina Gish Berndt
Visiting Assistant Professor
Center for the Americas
Wesleyan University
cberndt at wesleyan.edu
(860)-685-4476
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>> Greetings-
>> I hope colleagues can get some indigenous
>> panels together for this conference.
>> PLEASE FORWARD
>> Thank you,
>> J. Kehaulani Kauanui, 2008 NEASA President
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>> New England American Studies Association (NEASA)
>> Annual Conference, September 19-20, 2008
>> Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
>> ~~~
>> Call for Papers
>> Infectious Democracy: Histories and Cultures of American Politics
>> The 2008 Conference of the New England American Studies Association will
>> examine the histories, complexities, and nature(s) of American political
>> culture and its contentious relations to democracy as expressed both at
>> home and abroad. From the debates about governance between indigenous
>> peoples and settlers, to the pivotal moment in which many of the ideals
>> of
>> American democracy were crystallized in the Declaration of Independence,
>> to the 2008 presidential election, the meanings of democracy in American
>> political cultures have been far from self evident. NEASA's 2008
>> conference
>> asks how democratic practices and rhetorics can be attractive,
>> contagious,
>> invigorating, and debilitating. The ideals of the early republic, the
>> icons of
>> the founding fathers, the symbolic power of democracy, and the power of
>> democracy to engage and motivate an electorate operate in tandem and in
>> tension with the abuses of settler colonialism, histories of
>> disenfranchisement, the US war and occupation in Iraq, and the belief
>> that
>> the US can and should determine the sovereignty of other nations.
>> The 2008 conference invites papers and panels that consider the myriad
>> ways in which rhetorics and practices of democracy can be tools for both
>> expanding and limiting freedom. Potential topics for panels include
>> American
>> electoral politics; voting rights and voting wrongs; grassroots movement
>> for
>> freedom and justice; literary representations of democracy; American
>> colonialist/imperialist practices at home and abroad; Native American
>> citizenship and sovereignty rights; civil and human rights campaigns;
>> gay,
>> lesbian, transgender politics; the politics of immigration; and the role
>> of
>> “democracy” in the media. We invite paper and panel proposals in all
>> areas
>> of study and from the range of academic disciplines in the humanities
>> and
>> social sciences. Proposals with a New England regional focus are
>> welcome.
>> We especially encourage proposals from those situated outside of the
>> traditional academy, including independent scholars, curators, artists,
>> secondary educators, librarians, activists, administrators, and other
>> cultural workers.
>>
>> Please submit paper or panel proposals to: neasacouncil at gmail.com
>> by April 15, 2008
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