[AIW] Reminder CFP 32md AIW in Graz 2011

[Moertl, Heidrun Alena (heidrun.moertl@uni-graz.at)]

Dear colleagues and friends,

just a quick reminder about the deadline for the 32nd AIW in Graz. The deadline for paper submissions is only two weeks away! 
If you would like to be considered as presenter at the workshop, please submit your proposal to heidrun.moertl at uni-graz.at until October 1, 2010.

Keynote Speakers:
1st Keynote via Videomessage by Earl E.Fitz, Vanderbilt University, USA
2nd Keynote Speaker Simon J. Ortiz, Arizona State University, USA (Acoma Pueblo, is a poet, fiction and creative non-fiction writer, story teller, and scholar) - "Indigenous Literature: Land, Culture, Community.And Change, and Integrity"
3rd Keynote Speaker Val Napoleon, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta (Cree heritage, adopted member of the Gitanyow clan) - "Indigenous Law and Citizenship: Foundations for Indigenous Self-Determination"

Please refer to the website http://www.uni-graz.at/en/aiw_2011 to download the CFP (pasted below) as well as for information concerning the conference! There will be a performance and a reading in the evenings and also a reception at the city hall. So be sure to check out the program details!!

Please also note that there is no registration fee!

I am looking forward to your response and your submissions!

All the best,
Heidi Moertl


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32nd American Indian Workshop
“Approaching Native American Cultures from an Inter-American Perspective: Similarities and Differences”
March 31-April 3, 2011
Graz, Austria


The 2011 workshop plans to examine Native American Cultures from an Inter-American vantage point, both from a contemporary as well as a historical perspective. Within the wider field of American Studies, Inter-American Studies is taking on the role of transcending national boundaries – both in Europe and the Americas – in order to establish new structures of research and teaching with the potential to revolutionize not only how we think about the Americas (including their relationships with Europe and Africa and their pre-Columbian worlds) but about the various disciplines involved, as the scholar Earl Fitz has pointed out (1). This redefinition of research areas – away from national connotations towards regional (hemispheric) denotations, should also lead to a discussion in the field of Native American Studies in terms of interconnectedness within the Western Hemisphere. By looking at similarities and differences of Native American Cultures both in North and South America, scholars can re-conceptualize the Americas through comparative research transcending linguistic, political, and geographical borders that divide the Americas, and thus also position Native American Cultures within a new field of research.

By an emphasis of an Inter-American perspective, this workshop wants to explore a new approach to Native American cultures, and thus offer the possibility of defining Native American cultures by an interregional and interdisciplinary approach in the context of two continents – often seen as one.

Contributions are invited which will address the following general themes:

1. Native American History from an Inter-American Perspective
2. Borders and Boundaries of the Continent/Continents
3. Inter-American Studies as an Approach to Native American Topics
4. Current Research

Please submit proposals for presentation, including a title, an abstract of up to 200 words, and a short bio, to Heidrun Moertl (heidrun.moertl at uni-graz.at<mailto:heidrun.moertl at uni-graz.at>) by October 1, 2010.


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Mag. Heidrun Moertl (Ms)
Center for the Study of the Americas
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Merangasse 18/II
A-8010 Graz
Austria
Phone: +43 (0) 316 380 8202
Fax: +43 (0) 316 380 9767
Email: heidrun.moertl at uni-graz.at<mailto:heidrun.moertl at uni-graz.at>
Web: http://www.uni-graz.at/csas

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