[AIW] CFP: Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples - The Case of the Americas and Australia/Pacific Region, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA/USA, October 12-14, 2020

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Call for Papers

International Conference

Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples - The Case of the
Americas and Australia/Pacific Region

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA/USA

October 12-14, 2020

https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2019/10/26381-conference-cfp-mass-violence-and-its-
lasting-impact-indigenous-peoples-october

 

The organizers of the international conference “Mass Violence and Its
Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples - The Case of the Americas and
Australia/Pacific Region” invite scholars and knowledge holders to submit
proposals for papers, panels, posters, and alternative forms of presentation
related to the theme of the conference. 

 

The conference, which is co-sponsored by the Indigenous Knowledge Institute
of the University of Melbourne (Australia), will be hosted by the USC Shoah
Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and take place at the
University of Southern California in Los Angeles, which sits on the
traditional land of the Tongva/Gabrieliño People. The conference will
commence on October 12, 2020, Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  

 

The conference will provide a forum for leading and emerging scholars and
knowledge holders from around the world to present groundbreaking research
on the topics of genocide against Indigenous peoples (especially in North
America, Latin America, and Australia/Pacific Region), the long-lasting
impacts of mass violence on those communities, and their resistance, agency,
and initiatives to effect change. The objective of the conference is to
foster an international, interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on
these subjects, across a variety of historical, cultural, and geographic
contexts. By convening international experts, preferably from Indigenous
peoples, the conference will stimulate discovery and debate about the common
dynamics, patterns, and features of colonial/postcolonial violence and its
aftermath, as well as the specificities and unique factors that shaped the
manifestations and effects of and reactions to that violence in each
community. It also aims to shed light on lesser-known and under-researched
instances and aspects of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples.
Contributions taking comparative approaches between violence against
different Indigenous nations, tribes and communities, and between Indigenous
and non-Indigenous cases are also encouraged.

 

The conference will focus on cases of genocidal violence and its aftermath
in contexts as diverse as genocide and mass violence against the Maya in
Guatemala; Native Americans in the United States; Indigenous peoples in
Canada; Aboriginal peoples in Australia; Maori in New Zealand, and others.

 

The organizers invite proposals on a range of subjects, including (but not
limited to): 

1.	Challenges to the traditional concept and definition of genocide, in
light of the recognition of colonial genocides, and distinctions between
genocide, war, mass violence and colonial expansion. 
2.	Dimensions and impacts of cultural genocide, such as destruction of
languages and cultural and religious practices; boarding and residential
schools for Indigenous children; other measures of forced assimilation of
children into non-Indigenous communities (such as the “sixties scoop” in
Canada and Australia’s Stolen Generations); forced relocations of
communities; the forced transfer of human remains, sacred cultural objects
and artifacts to museums, research institutions and universities, and
others. 
3.	Intersections between colonial violence, gender and race. 
4.	Long-lasting, trans-generational impacts of colonial violence, such
as personal and collective trauma and manifestations of systemic and
institutional racism against Indigenous peoples (restricted access to
healthcare, education, and other resources; mass incarceration and high
suicide rates; environmental racism and ecological destruction; gender-based
violence, including the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
and Girls, 2SLGBTQQIA, and others). 
5.	Legal dimensions of past and contemporary Indigenous land claims and
treaties between Indigenous nations and colonial states.
6.	Forms of individual and collective resistance against mass violence
and its lasting impact, including petitions, public protest and art.
7.	Indigenous-centered pedagogies, healing practices, cultural
expressions, storytelling, and testimony as ways of combating or addressing
the legacies of colonial violence and systemic racism.
8.	Return of land and other resources and the repatriation of human
remains, sacred/cultural objects and artifacts from museums, research
institutions, private collections and universities. 
9.	Issues around cultural, political, and economic Indigenous
resurgence, self-empowerment, and sovereignty.

 

Proposal submissions can be for fully constituted panels, individual papers,
and posters. The organizers also encourage proposals for alternative forms
and methods of presentation. 

 

A panel proposal should consist of three papers and a respondent, or four
papers and a moderator. It also should include a panel title, a brief
description of the full session (up to 150 words), abstracts for each paper
(up to 300 words each), and short biographical notes for each presenter (up
to 150 words each). 

 

An individual paper proposal should include a title, an abstract (up to 300
words), and a short biographical note (up to 150 words). Those papers will
be coordinated into panels by conference organizers. 

 

A poster (or an alternative form of presentation) proposal should include a
title, an abstract (up to 300 words), and a short biographical note for each
participant (up to 150 words each).

 

The mandate of the conference stems from the recommendations of the 2007
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The
organizers particularly encourage and support the participation of
Indigenous scholars, knowledge holders, and other members of communities
that have been affected by colonial violence. 

 

In addition to keynote presentations and scholarly panels, the conference
schedule will include cultural programming, such as film screenings, music
and dance performances. 

 

The conference will be live-streamed, so that scholars and community members
around the world can watch and participate via social media. Recordings of
the conference will be available to watch online afterwards.

 

Submission deadline: January 15, 2020

 

To support presentations at the conference, funding for travel and
accommodation is available upon request for selected scholars, knowledge
holders, and members of affected communities who might not otherwise be able
to attend (including junior scholars and scholars without university
affiliation or from universities with inadequate resources).

 

Conference organizers: Lorena Fontaine (University of Winnipeg, Canada),
Dorota Glowacka (University of King's College, Halifax, Canada), Wolf
Gruner, (USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Los
Angeles), Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj (Guatemala/Stanford University), and
Lyndon Ormond-Parker (University of Melbourne, Australia), who will serve as
head of the conference’s subcommittee on repatriation. Conference organizers
will be assisted by an advisory committee to be composed of Indigenous
experts in the field.

 

Proposals should be submitted to cagr at usc.edu <mailto:cagr at usc.edu> . All
applicants will be informed of the decision regarding their participation in
the conference by April 15, 2020. 

 

For further information, please contact: cagr at usc.edu <mailto:cagr at usc.edu> 

 

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