[AIW] CFP: NAISA Twelfth Annual Meeting, Toronto/Tkaronto, ON/Canada, May 7-9, 2020
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Call for Papers
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
Twelfth Annual Meeting
University of Toronto, St. George campus, Toronto/Tkaronto, ON/Canada
May 7-9, 2020
https://www.naisa.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/
Tkaronto has been home of Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples since time
immemorial and part of the original homelands of the Wendat people. We
invite people to the NAISA 2020 meeting in Tkaronto, a place that is both
lands and waters. We invite you into a good way of being and thinking in
relation with lands, more than human and human kinship, while visiting us
here. We hope that our gathering is both about the future, and about
remembrance.In our planning of this meeting, we have been considering the
following prompts: How do we practice consent? How do we gather in a good
way? How do we show care? While we do not ask that you directly address
these prompts in your proposal, we encourage you to consider these questions
as you begin to plan your time at the conference. Click here to read our
full Welcome into Good Relation with Lands, Water, and Each Other in
Tkaronto.
The NAISA Council invites all persons working in Native American and
Indigenous Studies to submit proposals for: Individual papers, panel
sessions, roundtables, or creative works/film screenings. We welcome
proposals from faculty and students in colleges, universities, and tribal
colleges; from community-based scholars and elders; and from professionals
working in the field. We encourage proposals relating to Indigenous
community-driven scholarship.
The deadline for proposal submissions is November 1, 2019, 11:59 pm EST.
Only complete proposals submitted through the online Abstract Collector
before the deadline will receive consideration.
Please read the Instructions for Preparing Proposals carefully before
submitting your proposals.
For 2020, the Program Committee is slightly altering rules regarding
multiple appearances on the Program in order to facilitate opportunities to
chair &/or comment while continuing the "one person/one presentation" rule
to keep the Program open to as many presenters as possible. See additional
details below.
You must create an account in All Academic before submitting a proposal. If
you created an account last year, you must create a new one for the 2020
meeting. All those accepted to the program must get or renew NAISA
membership and must register for the meeting.
For information about the Toronto 2020 meeting, go to:
https://www.naisa2020.ca/
Instructions for Preparing Proposals for NAISA
Please ensure your proposal fits these instructions before submitting it.
Categories under which Proposals may be submitted:
* Individual Paper
* Panel
* Roundtable
* Creative Works/Film Screening/Performance/Video Games and Digital
Works/Installations and Activations (Please note that there will be limited
capacity for these kinds of presentations depending on the availability of
appropriate venues)
No more than two panels or roundtables can be included in proposals for
linked sessions.
Panel, Roundtable, and Creative Works time slots are scheduled for one hour
and 45 minutes. Individual paper sessions are scheduled for 20-minutetime
slots.
A CHANGE in the "No Double-Dipping" Rule
In the past, each person could be part of only one proposal of any kind and
could therefore participate in only one session. This year, a person may
present a paper (or participate in a roundtable or creative works session)
once only in the program but can appear in a second role as chair or
commentator (discussant) in a second session. As in the past, (1) Someone
may propose to present; both Chair and present; or Chair and comment, within
one session; OR (2) Someone may organize a panel in which s/he does not have
an active role and can present a paper or chair/comment in another session;
OR (3) NEW RULE: Someone may submit an individual paper proposal OR be
included as a presenter in a panel, roundtable, or creative works session
AND can chair OR comment in a second session. It is still the case that a
person cannot propose to presenttwice - in any combination of individual
paper, paper in a panel, or participation in a roundtable or creative
works/film session. In addition to submitting proposals, people can
volunteer to chair one of the panels created by the Program Committee from
individual paper proposals. The Program Committee may recruit panel chairs
and commentators from people on successful proposals.
Topics & Methods:
NAISA is interdisciplinary and international, and the Program Committee
welcomes a very broad range of topics and approaches. If prior Programs have
not included your area or topic, please do not be discouraged from
submitting a proposal. NAISA is always working to expand our coverage of
issues of import to Indigenous Studies and to Indigenous peoples.
Community-driven research is encouraged.
Title: 120 character limit
The title should succinctly describe the topic of your presentation. The
audience depends upon the title when choosing to attend papers/sessions.
NAISA Council has received consistent feedback that titles that do not
describe a paper or session make it difficult to choose what sessions/papers
to attend. For the 2020 meeting, Council hopes to make abstracts accessible
online.
Abstract: 250 word limit
The abstract should answer the following questions:
Whatis this paper/session about? Whoare the players? When? Whereis/are the
geographic context(s), if applicable, to which your paper speaks? How? (what
methods are used?) Whyare the question or inquiry or conclusions important?
State your findings / conclusions explicitly; it helps the Program Committee
evaluate your proposal and Program readers decide on which papers/sessions
to attend.
* Begin your abstract with your topic/ focus / question.
* Indicate clearly what you plan to argue/show/demonstrate. If there
is necessary background or contextual information, put it at the end - not
the beginning.
* Terms: avoid discipline- or area-specific jargon or terminology.
NAISA is broadly interdisciplinary, international, and includes
community-based as well as academic-based scholars. Try to avoid or
explicitly define special terminology.
* Time for individual papers and papers in sessions: 20 minutes(15
minutes in sessions with five presenters).
To sum up: Is your abstract scholarly, focused, substantive, and
descriptive?
CATEGORIES FOR PROPOSALS
Individual paper presenters are allocated 20 minutes (15 minutes for
sessions with five presenters).
The Program time slots are scheduled for one hour and 45 minutes. If you are
preparing a proposal for a Panel, Roundtable, or Creative Works Session,
please plan to fit within this time limit.
Individual Paper Proposal
Include your name, institutional affiliation, paper title (120 characters
max), and abstract (250 words max).
Presenting the ideas encompassed by an entire book manuscript or
dissertation project is not possible in 20 minutes. If you are working on a
large project, focus your proposal on a chunk of it. It takes 2-3 minutes to
read a double-spaced page: twenty-minute paper = ten pages, max. Practice
and time yourself in advance to ensure you do not exceed the time allocated
for your presentation.
Make the scope of your presentation appropriate to the venue. Professional
meetings are not an appropriate venue to present class papers that survey
the scholarship within some academic field, unless some substantively new or
creative interpretation is presented.
The NAISA Program Committee has been skeptical of proposals that claim to
survey all of American Indian/Native/First Nations/Indigenous Studies
conceptually, methodologically, ethically, or otherwise.
Panel Proposal
A panel brings together a Chair and presenters and (optionally) a
Commentator, to present developed papers. A commentator who discusses the
papers is recommended, but not required. The Chair briefly introduces each
presenter; keeps each presenter on time; and moderates discussion/questions
from the audience at the conclusion of the session. A Chair may also present
a paper, but they or someone else on the panel must monitor their time. The
Commentator may not present a paper as part of the panel.
The Program Committee encourages organizers to recruit Chairs who are well
established in the field of scholarship the panel addresses, especially if
there are graduate students on the panel, as a way for senior and junior
colleagues to get to know one another. Because NAISA meetings facilitate
interdisciplinary and international cross-fertilization of ideas, the
Program Committee encourages panel proposals that mix junior and senior
scholars, practitioners, graduate students and others, and scholars from
different institutions, communities, disciplines, and nations. No more than
two panels can be included in proposals for linked sessions.
Possible time frames for Panels:
(1) 3 papers (20 min. each) + Comment (20 minutes) + approximately 20
minutes for audience questions and discussion;
(2) 4 papers (20 min each), NO Comment, approximately 20 minutes for
audience questions and discussion;
(3) 5 papers (15 min each), NO Comment + approximately 20 minutes for
audience questions and discussion
(4) Time might be scheduled for introductory remarks by Chair.
Roundtable Proposal
A Roundtable brings together a group interested in some defined topic of
discussion and opens that discussion up to include the audience. A Chair to
moderate the discussion is strongly recommended. Because NAISA meetings
facilitate interdisciplinary and international cross-fertilization of ideas,
the Program Committee encourages proposed roundtables that mix junior and
senior scholars, practitioners, graduate students and others, and scholars
from different institutions, communities, disciplines, and nations.
Creative Works/Film Screening Proposal
A Creative Works proposal without people to speak about the creative work
does not qualify for presentation at the conference. Creative works
proposals should include commentary by the artist, critics, and those who
can provide scholarly context for or interpretation of the works, and/or
those who teach the works in classes. It is expected that the artists are
present for the session. Films will be a rough cut showing and not official
screenings, thus allowing for film festival submissions in Toronto.
The proposal must include:
* Time: how long the creative works performance or presentation
is,plus time for the commentary/discussion (preferably by more than one
speaker).
* Link:to a preview, trailer, prescreening, or visual images from the
work.
* Spatial and technical requirements: Your request for the room, A/V,
and/or type/setup/dimensions of space - please outline the specific
preferences for your proposal, keeping in mind the Program Committee may not
be able to accommodate all requests/combinations:
* Studio/Movement space
* Projector
* Wired Microphones
* Wireless Microphones and/or headsets
* Single or multiple screens - indicate number
* Audio requirements including speakers
* Flexible furniture/seating for audience space
* Lighting - total darkness / dimmable/adjustable lighting
* Outdoor space
* Paint/Painting Surfaces
* Other
To sum up: Include title, artist, length of performance, screening, creative
works presentation and summary.
The Program Committee is open to suggestions for alternative formats for
creative and scholarly presentations at the annual meeting. Please contact
the NAISA Council well in advance of the proposal deadlineto submit your
ideas.
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