[AIW] CALL FOR PAPERS: Newberry Colloquium "Why You Can't Teach U.S. History without American Indians"

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NEWBERRY COLLOQUIUM

Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies
Newberry Library, Ruggles Hall, March 29-30, 2013

"Why You Can't Teach U.S. History without American Indians"

For generations U.S. historians wrote the nation's story as if Indians did
not exist, or at best, they marginalized Indian peoples as unimportant
actors in the national drama of revolution and democratic state formation.
Despite the large number of faculty trained in American Indian history very
little has changed and most college level students who enroll in large
survey courses in U.S. history learn about Indians during the initial stages
of encounter and then, Indians are often depicted as succumbing to epidemic
diseases or being pushed off their lands by westward expansion.

The mission of this colloquium is to change how historians teach U.S.
history. Today, we are fortunate to have a large number of faculty who teach
American Indian Studies and the knowledge base that these scholars possess
is profound, thoroughgoing, and expansive. These new perspectives need to be
better incorporated into the interpretation and writing of history.
Repeatedly, we hear faculty proclaim that they would include Indians if they
were more central to mainstream history. This seminar intends to challenge
that perspective and to provide a new expanded resource for college level
faculty. 

In March of 2013, the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies invites
scholars to attend a seminar at the Newberry Library in Chicago to present
papers that suggest how Indians can be better integrated into the way we
teach and study US history.  We encourage abstracts that address a broad
range of topics and that address how certain events in United States history
lend themselves to counter-interpretations that include Indians. 

We hope that this seminar will provide a public, academic forum for new
interpretations of past events, from an Indian perspective, and we plan to
publish selected papers in a volume that will be geared toward classroom
teaching.  We also hope to create a web site for the faculty who teach
courses in American Indian Studies and US History to post syllabi and engage
in a public forum where faculty who wish to develop similar courses can draw
on this reservoir of experience. 

Please submit a 200-300 word abstract of your proposal by July 15, 2012.  We
will notify all potential recipients of their acceptance by August 15th.
Papers of 7,000 to 10,000 words in length will be mailed to the Newberry
Library, Chicago, Illinois by March 1, 2013 and will be distributed in
advance to seminar participants.  They will be presented at a scholarly
colloquium on March 29th - 30th, 2013.  Following public presentation,
papers will be revised and resubmitted for publication review on June 1,
2013.

Seminar Coordinating Committee:
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University, sleepers at msu.edu
Scott Manning Stevens, The Newberry Library, stevenss at newberry.org
Julianna Barr, University of Florida, jbarr at ufl.edu
Jean O'Brien, University of Minnesota, obrie002 at umn.edu
Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut, nancy.shoemaker at uconn.edu

Please send abstracts to:
Jade Cabagnot, cabagnotj at newberry.org




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