[nativestudies-l] CFP - CIC-AISC 2008 Symposium: The Indigenous Voice in Film

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

Date: May, 18, 2008

From: Susan Sleeper-Smith cicaisc at MSU.EDU
Subject: CFP - CIC-AISC 2008 Symposium: The Indigenous Voice in Film

SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM: "INDIGENOUS VOICE IN FILM"

Monday, September 22, 2008
To Be Held At: Brook Lodge - Kalamazoo, MI

This is the second in a three-year cycle of annual symposium that situates
American Indian Studies within a comparative, global perspective.  We seek
scholars whose research focuses on the ways that film has been employed to
contest the cultural, racial, and class differences imposed by the
colonization of indigenous peoples.    We are especially interested in the
layers of social, ideological, and political stereotypes that have created
stereotypic images of Native people and how these depictions have been
increasingly challenged by film.  This symposium examines how this attempt
to "talk back" has given birth to an emerging genre of recent films and
documentaries.

Films that consider the multiplicity of indigenous voices from a global
perspective form the focus of this second symposium.   We welcome papers
from international scholars, especially those whose work focuses on film as
a mechanism of indigenous expression.  Because mainstream films remain
obvious sites of contestation they often resist or impede indigenous
expression.  Therefore, this symposium encourages participants to
investigate how knowledge is embedded in alternative films.

Papers will be submitted thirty days in advance of the conference (August
29) and will be distributed to seminar participants.   Authors will be asked
to provide papers in the range of 6,000-8,000 words.  These papers will be
included in the seminar proceedings that are being published by the
University of Nebraska Press.
To be considered for inclusion on the symposium program, please submit a
one-page abstract by June 15, 2008.  Applicants will be notified of
acceptance by June 30.

Please send abstracts and/or questions to: cicaisc at msu.edu.

Susan Sleeper-Smith
CIC-AISC Office
311 Berkey Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824