Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area

2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

February 10-13, 20010Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's
31st Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM
Proposals for both Panels and Individual Papers are now being accepted for the Native/Indigenous Studies Area. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are welcome and encouraged.   DEADLINE December 15, 2009.

• Indigenous Methodologies
• Indians in Higher Education
• Teaching Popular Culture in Native American Studies
• Biography, autobiography, and nonfiction works by and/or about Indigenous people
• Native Literature
• Public Health and Indigenous Peoples
• Popular culture and religion (or, religious popular culture)
• Native peoples across borders: racial/physical/economic/political… etc
• Native representations in popular culture (television, comic books, video/computer games (etc)
• Politics and Native peoples
• Indigenous Women in Social Work
• Indigenous resistance, regional or global (whaling/fishing rights, incarceration issues, sports mascots, etc.)
• More ideas encouraged!

Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to L. Rain Cranford-Gomez or Citlalin Xochime at the contacts below. Please forward this email to people who would be interested in participating.  

L. Rain A Cranford-Gomez
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
ohoyocreole@gmail.com                                                                                                                                American Literature and Language Arts

Citlalin Xochime
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
 citlalin@att.net                                                                                                                                                          New Mexico State University

The 2010 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque. Join us this year, as a returning or first-time participant, as we celebrate the 31ST year of this regional popular culture conference. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.swtxpca.org/.