[AIW] CFP: 33rd American Indian Workshop, Zurich/Switzerland, April 12-15, 2012

[AIW - Bartl]

Call for papers for the 2012 American Indian Workshop in Zurich

 

Problems inherent in the very act of representation become salient in
minority/majority multicultural situations. Being inherent in the act, they
are not resolved in the course of  (inter)cultural interaction, they are
merely reshaped and reformulated. They arise with particular clarity in
cultural places that function as loci of cultural canon formation, such as
museums. Questions of ownership, authorization and authentication have
consistently been raised with regard to them during the last few decades.
I.e., issues that pervade the discussion of intercultural representation
have been asked with regard to museums so as to give them a paradigmatic
place in the wider discussion.

The conference will take stock of the current state of the discussion both
in the discipline(s) of Indigenous Studies and in the narrower field of
museology. It will attempt to play explicit and continuous attention to the
fact that cultural, economic, political, etc. interactions with "Ame-rican
Indians" in the US and "First Nations" in Canada have been shaped
differently. These differences have become of great interest to North
American Native Studies, which have thereby acquired a pronounced and
fruitful comparative bent.

In Zurich, conference participants will particularly discuss new insights
and new develop-ments in various loci, where the questions of presentation
and representation become salient:

.         Media such as film, video, the fine arts, literature, other forms
of popular culture, and the like.

.         Places such as museums (where representation becomes visible as
presentation in ways that demand constant reflection and vigilance),
theatres, the lecture hall.

.         Disciplines related to Native issues such as anthropology, art
history, history, literature, cultural studies, law, economics, and the
like.

Proposals for contributions (abstracts of no more than 250 words) are
invited by October 31st to the following e-mail address (aiw12 at vmz.uzh.ch).
Information on a special homepage for the 2012 meeting will be announced by
the end of June.

Karin Isernhagen

Dr. Peter Gerber

Monika Egli

 

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