Washington, D.C.
May 29th - June 1st, 2013  Proposal Deadline: September 1st, 2012
The conference theme, "Towards a New Social Contract?," will explore inequality in Latin America. In the first decade of the 21st century, income inequality has gone down in a substantial number of Latin American countries. This is the first time that inequality has declined on such a broad scale since we have had reasonably reliable data on income distribution. Beginning in the 1990s educational reforms have expanded the percentage of the population with secondary and tertiary education. The governments of the left that came to power after 2000 implemented a number of other reforms to improve life chances for the underprivileged, such as increases in the minimum wage, social assistance programs, and health care coverage. Are these trends likely to continue, or are they conjunctural and easily subject to reversal once economic growth rates decline? Participating Presses: Arizona, North Carolina Learn More
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June 13th - June 15th, 2013 Proposal Deadline: November 15th, 2012
The NAISA Council invites scholars working in Native American and
Indigenous Studies to submit proposals for: Individual papers, panel sessions, roundtables, or film screenings. All persons working in Native American and Indigenous Studies are invited and encouraged to apply. Proposals are welcome from faculty and students in colleges, universities, and tribal colleges; from community-based scholars and elders; and from professionals working in the field. Participating Presses: Oregon State, Minnesota, Arizona, North Carolina Learn More
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- Latin American Studies Association International Congress
Washington, D.C.
May 29th - June 1st, 2013 Proposal Deadline: September 1st, 2012
The conference theme, "Towards a New Social Contract?," will explore inequality in Latin America. In the first decade of the 21st century, income inequality has gone down in a substantial number of Latin American countries. This is the first time that inequality has declined on such a broad scale since we have had reasonably reliable data on income distribution. Beginning in the 1990s educational reforms have expanded the percentage of the population with secondary and tertiary education. The governments of the left that came to power after 2000 implemented a number of other reforms to improve life chances for the underprivileged, such as increases in the minimum wage, social assistance programs, and health care coverage. Are these trends likely to continue, or are they conjunctural and easily subject to reversal once economic growth rates decline? Participating Presses: Arizona, North Carolina - Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Victoria, British Columbia (University of Victoria)
June 1st - June 8th, 2013 The theme of “@ the edge” reflects the University of Victoria’s geographical position in Canada and on the Pacific Rim, as well as the need to centre the periphery both institutionally and socially, testing the boundaries of disciplines, promoting innovative thinking, seeking relevance to both local and global communities, and committing to engaged scholarship and knowledge mobilization. “@ the edge” focuses on the key social challenges of inequality, the need for inclusivity, and the acceptance of diversity; those are challenges that demand intentional solutions that will address the marginalization of those at the edges of society through the tools provided by creative interdisciplinary research activities in the humanities and social sciences.
Whether the voices stem from the world of advanced ideas, people who are socially marginalized through economics or health factors, people who are physically distant from centres of power and influence, or indigenous peoples whose languages and cultures are endangered, this year’s theme wishes to ensure that those voices “@ the edge” are heard. - 2013 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Albuquerque, New Mexico
June 10th - June 13th, 2013 Proposal Deadline: November 1st, 2012
The 2013 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums has been set for June 10-13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
We invite proposals for topics that are of interest to tribal archives, libraries and museums with an emphasis on case studies of successful programs and hands-on activities receive priority. For information about past conferences and workshops, visit the “About Us” section of the www.atalm.org website. Participating Presses: Arizona - Breath of Life Institute Workshop
Washington, DC
June 10th - June 21st, 2013 The goal of the Breath of Life Institute is to help Native Americans involved in language revitalization find and make use of materials on their languages that are in the National Anthropological Archives and Library of Congress. Under the leadership of Lisa Conathan and Leanne Hinton, this two week workshop allows teams of participants (Native American heritage language learners, teachers and activists) paired with linguists (experts in linguistics who assist the participants in their research) to explore the language resources in archives in the District of Columbia area. Visits to the archives were supplemented by lectures and workshops on linguistics, language teaching and learning, and related topics.
The 2013 Breath of Life Institute is supported by the National Science Foundation. Partners include the National Museum of Natural History, The National Museum of the American Indian, the Library of Congress, The Endangered Language Fund and Yale University. - Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Saskatoon (University of Saskatchewan)
June 13th - June 15th, 2013 Proposal Deadline: November 15th, 2012
The NAISA Council invites scholars working in Native American and
Indigenous Studies to submit proposals for: Individual papers, panel sessions, roundtables, or film screenings. All persons working in Native American and Indigenous Studies are invited and encouraged to apply. Proposals are welcome from faculty and students in colleges, universities, and tribal colleges; from community-based scholars and elders; and from professionals working in the field. Participating Presses: Oregon State, Minnesota, Arizona, North Carolina - American Indian Language Development Institute
Tucson, AZ (University of Arizona)
June 17th - June 18th, 2013 Registration Deadline: April 5th, 2013
The American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) announces a two-day conference to address the current state of Indigenous languages in the United States and particularly to question what progress has or has not been made since the passage of the Native American Language Act in 1990 and 1992.
The passage of the Native American Language Act (NALA) at the time was thought to be the legislation that would bring about positive change in the face of the rapid loss of U.S. Indigenous languages. Michael Krauss' (University of Alaska) statistics, presented to Congress in 1990, have often been quoted and still stand as the primary statistics for the state of Indigenous languages.
Using the Krauss' statistics and NALA as a springboard for discussion, the conference will convene Native language speakers, educators, activists, students, linguists and others for reflection and dialogue. The conference addresses three key questions related to the vitality of U.S. Indigenous languages: where have we been, what do we know and where are we going? These questions will be applied to the NALA, language documentation, and pedagogical trends. The conference provides an opportunity to make a crtical examination of the history of Indigenous language vitality, existing documentation and the various methodologies. - American Antiquarian Society Summer Seminar
June 18th - June 21st, 2013 Registration Deadline: March 29th, 2013
The AAS Summer Seminar for 2013 will explore how writers like Louise Erdrich and N. Scott Momaday have actually emerged from tribal literary traditions that are comprised of a whole range of textual practices—from oral storytelling to written alphabetic and syllabary texts, from individual authorship to corporate and collaborative composition. Drawing on the extensive collection of American Indian print and manuscript materials housed at the AAS, this summer course gives teachers and scholars hands-on experience with the textual cultures of Native peoples from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. At present, textual criticism of American Indian writing is at best underdeveloped, comprised of ad hoc strategies and (at times) lack of familiarity with the very different “sociologies” at work in Native communities. The AAS Summer Seminar will offer its participants a change to remedy this situation by engaging in a more comprehensive theorization of the textual cultures of indigenous communities. - Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute
Edmonston, Alberta (University of Alberta)
July 8th - July 26th, 2013 The University of Alberta is pleased to present the 14th annual Summer School of Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute over the course of three weeks in July 2013. Learn an Indigenous language or gain expertise in the areas of linguistics, endangered language documentation and revitalization, language and literacy learning, second language teaching and curriculum development, and language policy and planning. This program provides a unique opportunity to earn university credit while learning about Indigenous languages and culture. - Native American Journalist Association Conference
Phoenix, AZ
July 18th - July 21st, 2013 Proposal Deadline: December 15th, 2012
The 2012 convention programming committee will give special consideration to interactive, skills-building workshops with experienced and knowledgeable presenters. Workshops and presenters should appeal to one or more of the following groups:
• Print and online journalists (mainstream and tribal newspapers, magazines, wire services)
• Broadcast journalists (radio, television)
• Visual journalists (photo, video, graphics)
• Multimedia and/or mobile journalists
• Freelance and/or self-employed journalists
• Journalists seeking news management positions
• Media professionals in communications or academia
• Journalism students
The 2013 convention will come at an exciting time for NAJA, with next year marking 30 years since the first meeting held by the organization’s founding members. We will celebrate our members’ successes, and discuss moving forward with our crucial missions of increasing Native representation in the media and pushing for fair and accurate coverage of Natives and our communities. - The American Society for Ethnohistory 2013 Meeting
New Orleans, LA
September 11th - September 15th, 2013 Proposal Deadline: April 19th, 2013
This year’s conference theme reflects the geography of New Orleans situated at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi River, one of the largest waterways on the continent. Just as the history of New Orleans has been shaped by its close proximity to water, this year’s meeting focuses on the ethnohistories of people and water–water as mythical and magical element, water as corridors of connection, water as sites of human history, water as necessity, water as human rights, water as resource, water as disaster, water as blessing, and so on. We encourage panel and paper proposals that focus on some aspect of the history of people and water, although any panel or paper on any ethnohistorical topic will be considered. Participating Presses: Arizona, North Carolina - American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting
Birmingham, AL
September 18th - September 21st, 2013 Proposal Deadline: November 16th, 2012
Fifty years after King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" articulated principles of nonviolence. Fifty years later we ask: If history is the example, the provocateur, and the context - how do we best use it today? How do you incorporate stories of ordinary people's extraordinary lives in your institution? How can we build programs that deal directly with issues, making history interesting, relevant, useful, and human? What interesting and unusual techniques do you use to fulfill your organization's mission? What ideas and examples are there in local history that can inspire us? - Critical Ethnic Studies Association: Decolonizing Future Intellectual Legacies and Activist Practices
Chicago, Illinois (University of Illinois-Chicago )
September 19th - September 21st, 2013 Proposal Deadline: September 1st, 2012
Interrogating the limitations of ethnic studies today and counteracting these appropriations, CESA’s second conference has as its central goal the development of an approach to scholarship, institution building, and activism that is animated by the spirit of the decolonial, antiracist, and other global liberationist movements that enabled the creation of Ethnic Studies (Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Native American Studies, Arab-American Studies, Latino/a Studies, and Postcolonial Studies) and continues to inform its political and intellectual projects. An un-disciplinary formation, critical ethnic studies sees decolonization not as a goal but as a set of ongoing theories, practices, imaginaries, and methods in the service of abolishing global oppression. Thus, rather than focusing exclusively on critique, critical ethnic studies stands for decolonizing as a generative praxis of world-making. - Western History Association
Tucson, AZ (University of Arizona )
October 9th - October 12th, 2013 Proposal Deadline: September 1st, 2012
No region of the world has been more important than the West of North America in encouraging historians to take an environmental perspective on the past. Today that perspective has become global in scale and significance, and it is time to bring it back home for reassessing ourselves. The 2013 program committee invites proposals on the theme of checking the “vital signs,” those indicators of health and illness that societies as well as individuals need. They include such measures of well being as energy supplies and consumption, ecological and cultural diversity, the distribution of wealth and power, the ups and downs of climate, and the resilience of ecosystems and human communities. Participating Presses: Arizona, North Carolina - Tercera Conferencia sobre Etnicidad, Raza y Pueblos Indígenas en América Latina y el Caribe
Oaxaca City, Mexico (Universidad Autónoma de Oaxaca)
October 23rd - October 25th, 2013 Proposal Deadline: March 30th, 2013
Registration Deadline: April 30th, 2013
La Tercera Conferencia de ERIP-LASA seguirá fortaleciendo el intercambio entre las instituciones y las(os) estudiosas(os) participantes, al igual que permitirá conocer los avances de la investigación en los distintos países de la región, así como profundizar en los enfoques multidisciplinarios; todo lo cual contribuirá a enriquecer nuestras perspectivas de análisis en un contexto socio político que exige las contribuciones de los
científicos(as) sociales.
La Conferencia tiene lugar en la coyuntura de una crisis económica que se profundiza a nivel mundial y que agrava, de manera particular, la condición de los grupos étnicos y raciales en el continente. Las particularidades del contexto socio político en el que habrá de celebrarse esta Conferencia son diversas, entre las que cabe mencionar, el alto nivel de conflictividad social, especialmente en los territorios indígenas de la región latinoamericana, por la expansión de los proyectos múltiples de las empresas transnacionales y las políticas sociales de los estados latinoamericanos, así como las políticas migratorias de los estados nacionales, en particular, de Estados Unidos y México.
- In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalization
London UK
October 24th, 2013 Proposal Deadline: April 30th, 2013
If indigeneity and globalization are seen to articulate (with) each other in cultural as well as political spheres, what hangs in the
balance? Working through the analytical window of performance in a range of sites and modalities, this interdisciplinary conference
examines the power and the precariousness of indigeneity as a politicized cultural force in our unevenly connected world. The
growing visibility of artistic networks and ideological coalitions among indigenous peoples on a transnational scale urges a fresh look
at the mechanisms of cultural entanglement and the particular rights and insights afforded by indigeneity in that process. Cast as an
ethical touchstone in some arenas and a thorny complication in others, indigeneity now matters in global debates about natural
resources, heritage, governance, representation and social justice, to name just some of the contentious issues that continue to stall
the unfinished business of decolonization. Indigenous arts, simultaneously attuned to local voices and global cultural flows, have
often been the vanguard in communicating what is at stake in such debates, to international as well as grass-‐roots audiences. At the
same time, the global circulation of indigenous arts as cultural capital has affected the ways in which indigeneity is activated and
understood across different social and aesthetic platforms. Our explicit focus on performance is designed to probe the specificities of
these related movements at the level of embodied praxis. It should also prompt questions about the interactions, contradictions,
disjunctions, opportunities, exclusions, injustices and aspirations that globalization entails. - International Congress on the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America, 19th-21st Centuries
Oaxaca City, Mexico (Instituto Cultural Oaxaca)
October 28th - October 31st, 2013 Proposal Deadline: February 1st, 2013
This meeting aims to strengthen cooperation and to further practical and intellectual exchange between academics and professionals from Latin America, the U.S. and Europe who study and work with Latin American indigenous peoples from the perspective of history, ethnohistory, anthropology, or other related sciences, and also from the perspective of designing and implementing policies for social development or the preservation of indigenous peoples' cultural heritage. The congress seeks to share and disseminate the latest research findings, to advance established and new lines of thematic enquiry, and to explore the various epistemological and methodological frameworks that have been adopted in scholarly and empirical work on different aspects of the indigenous question at different times throughout history.
The congress seeks to provide a forum for the broadest possible debate: participants are therefore invited not only to present the results of their research but to formulate new proposals, as well as to discuss the relevance of established research fields, the development of new research themes, the need to train professionals from a disciplinary as well as a multi- and interdisciplinary perspective, and the state of professional practice both at present and as it extends into the future.
To achieve these objectives, we invite contributions from all those working in academic institutions as well as from professionals working in governmental and non-governmental organizations. We believe that the greater the diversity of professional expertise that is brought together in the congress, the richer the ensuing discussion will be of our individual disciplines, the comparison of their respective practices, and the generation of new proposals. Above all, the congress seeks to broaden debate on the application as well as the advancement of knowledge, as this relates to professional practice among the indigenous peoples of modern Latin America. - National Indian Education Association
Rapid City, South Dakota
October 29th - November 3rd, 2013 Conference information forthcoming. - National Women's Studies Association
Cincinnati, OH
November 7th - November 10th, 2013 NWSA’s 2013 conference theme, Negotiating Points of Encounter, takes up the geographies, histories, and political stakes of various feminist engagements, confrontations, and struggles—intellectual and institutional, local and global, public and intimate. How is it that we are, or should be, negotiating these points of encounter as the contours of theories, disciplines, communities, economies, forms of protest, and even national borders/identities shift? How are new spaces for thinking and doing “otherwise” opened up by reassessing loyalties, renegotiating borders, reconceptualizing pasts, and reimagining embodiments? How do such changes demarcate both exclusions and inclusions? What might they tell about new (or old) ways of effecting change? And what justice or injustices do they foster and/or resist? - American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL
November 20th - November 24th, 2013 Proposal Deadline: April 15th, 2013
The 2013 annual meeting theme, "Future Publics, Current Engagements" invites discussions about how anthropological theory and method can provide insight into the human past and emerging future.
The 2013 annual meeting is dedicated to examining our efforts to transform our disciplinary identity and capacity in terms of knowledge production and relevance in a world of radical change. What is the nature of anthropological knowledge in a world of heterogeneity, interconnectivity and risk? How can we rethink collaborations beyond the categories of researcher/subject, expert/lay, or anthropologist/other? How can we fruitfully participate in interdisciplinary exchanges and projects that engage big questions? How do we nurture and support younger scholars who are struggling to expand the questions and parameters that define the field for a new century? How do ethical considerations shape the practice but also the substance of our scholarship in an imperiled world? - American Studies Assocation
Washington, DC
November 21st - November 24th, 2013 Proposal Deadline: January 26th, 2013
Registration Deadline: June 1st, 2013
2013 conference theme: "Beyond the Logic of Debt, Toward an Ethics of Collective Dissent." From college students graduating with crushing loans to millions of retirees facing foreclosures, from the still neglected residents of New Orleans to Asian and African women targeted by micro lenders, from the suicides of so many suffering economic loss to those made desperate by their utter lack of options, including deaths that set off the Tunisian uprisings of the "Arab Spring," the ubiquity of debt defines our current historical moment. We thus call for discussions of “debt” in its many historical, contemporary, and allegorical dimensions, and invite everyone to offer insights on not only the dominant logic of debt, but also the alternative practices of collective dissent that disrupt and deregulate its coercive power.
The convention theme takes our conference location, Washington D.C., as an opportunity to explore debt. Myriad debts are managed in D.C., including student, home, credit card, healthcare, and national debts. In addition to being the “seat of democracy” it is the “seat of finance,” a combination well represented by the city's famous nationalist monuments and the landmarks of global finance (the World Bank, the IMF, the FRB). In many ways, D.C. has come to represent the financialization of everything, and the empowerment of the profits, security, and needs of the 1%. - American Historical Association
Washington, DC
January 2nd - January 5th, 2014 Proposal Deadline: February 15th, 2013
The 128th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 2–5, 2014, in Washington, D.C. The Program Committee welcomes proposals from all members of the Association, whatever their institutional affiliation or status, as well as from affiliated societies, historians working outside the United States, and scholars in related disciplines. The theme for the meeting is "Disagreement, Debate, Discussion." While seeking proposals for sessions that explore facets of this broad theme, we also welcome submissions on the histories of all places and periods, on many different topics, on the uses of varied sources and methods, and on theory and the uses of history itself. We also invite members to employ and analyze diverse strategies for representing the past, including fiction, poetry, film, music, and art. The AHA is a capacious organization, unique among learned societies in its devotion to the full range of historical scholarship and practice. We hope that our program will reflect this strength, and to this end, we will seriously consider any proposal that advances the study, teaching, and public presentation of history. Participating Presses: North Carolina - Berkshire Conference on Women’s History
Toronto, Ontario (University of Toronto )
May 22nd - May 25th, 2014 Proposal Deadline: January 15th, 2013
Our major theme of Histories on the Edge/Histoires sur la brèche reflects the growing internationalization of the Berkshire conference. It recognizes the precariousness of a world in which the edged-out millions demand transformation, as well as the intellectual edges scholars have crossed and worked to bridge in the academy and outside of it. The conference in Canada prompts engagement with critical edges – sharpening, de-centring, decolonizing histories. Edges are spatial: impenetrable borders, stifling or protective boundaries, and spaces of smooth entry. Edges are temporal; they also evoke the creative and the avant-garde. Entangled in the idea of edges are rough encounters, jagged conflicts as well as intimate exchanges. It speaks to the alternative spaces the “edged-out” have carved for themselves and to efforts made to create a common ground, or commons, on which to make oppositional histories.
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