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

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

Greetings-If interested, please contact Christina Gish Berndt:
cberndt at wesleyan.edu

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Call for Presenters for Native American Session
at the New England American Studies Association conference,
"Infectious Democracy: Histories and Cultures of American
Politics," September 19-20, 2008, at Yale University

This panel aims to examine 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.

I am looking for papers that address Native expressions of sovereignty
beyond those delineated by the nation-state.  Specifically I am interested
in expressions of sovereignty that do not rely on constructions, such as
borders and contracts, established and enforced by the nation-state (state
based expressions of sovereignty).  I am interested in articulating Native
expressions of sovereignty, historically and today, and in exploring the
outcome of encounters between the nation-state and peoples exercising
this form of sovereignty.  These papers could explore violent or
diplomatic encounters in any region during any period.  I would like to
organize a panel that addresses Native expressions of sovereignty from
multiple and varied perspectives.

My own work addresses these topics in an examination of the Northern
Cheyenne struggle to gain recognition of their rights to their homeland
between 1876 and 1950.

Please contact me if your interested. Proposals to the NEASA
are due mid-April, so I hope to hear from those interested in
participating in a session with me by Friday, April 5th.  Thanks.

Sincerely,

Christina

Christina Gish Berndt
Visiting Assistant Professor
Center for the Americas
Wesleyan University
cberndt at wesleyan.edu
(860)-685-4476