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<DIV>Hi, ILAT Members. I received the following Call for Proposals, and
I thought some of you might be interested. If you've already seen this
note, I'm sorry to send it again.</DIV>
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<DIV>Resa<BR><BR></DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">>INDIGENOUS
WOMEN AND FEMINISM: CULTURE, ACTIVISM, POLITICS<BR>><BR>>August 25-28,
2005<BR>>University of Alberta<BR>>Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada<BR>><BR>>Keynote Speakers:<BR>>Minnie Grey, Chief Negotiator
for Nunavik Self-Government, Makivik Corporation<BR>>Aileen
Moreton-Robinson, Australian Studies Centre, University of
Queensland<BR>>Rebecca Tsosie, College of Law, University of
Arizona<BR>><BR>>Developments in feminist theory and practice since
the late 1980s and <BR>>1990s have enabled scholars to recognize how
nationality, race, class, <BR>>sexuality, and ethnicity inform axes of
gender differentiation among women <BR>>as a social class. Despite these
interventions, indigenous women and <BR>>feminist issues remain
undertheorized within contemporary feminist <BR>>critical theory.
Although presumed to fall within normative definitions of <BR>>women of
colour and postcolonial feminism, indigenous feminism remains an
<BR>>important site of gender struggle that also engages the crucial
issues of <BR>>cultural identity, nationalism, and decolonization. At the
same time, the <BR>>growing legal recognition of the rights of indigenous
peoples to cultural <BR>>and political autonomy has made increasingly
important questions of <BR>>indigenous women and their work on behalf of
civil rights and sovereignty. <BR>>With such intersections in mind, we
invite paper and round table proposals <BR>>for an international,
interdisciplinary conference focused on indigenous <BR>>feminism and its
defining goals and features. Topics may include but are <BR>>not limited
to the following:<BR>><BR>>· indigenous feminism as critical
practice<BR>>· indigenous feminism and literary/performance art<BR>>·
historical constructions of indigenous feminist work<BR>>· strategic
alliances within indigenous feminism<BR>>· non-native women and
indigenous feminism<BR>>· critical intersections between indigenous
feminism and women of color <BR>>feminism<BR>>· uses of indigenous
feminism in the dominant culture<BR>>· indigenous feminism and the
“post-feminist” state<BR>>· gender politics and indigenous
feminism<BR>>· indigenous collectives and feminist alliances<BR>>·
interdisciplinarity and indigenous feminism<BR>><BR>>Papers will be no
more than twenty minutes in length. Submissions for <BR>>round table and
panel presentations should include an abstract for each <BR>>paper.
Please send 250 word proposals by electronic submission to
<BR>>csuzack@ualberta.ca. Deadline for submissions <BR>>is October 15,
2004.<BR>><BR>>Please direct enquiries to any one of the conference
organizers:<BR>>Jean Barman (Jean.Barman@ubc.ca)<BR>>Shari Huhndorf
<BR>>(sharih@darkwing.uoregon.edu)<BR>>Jeanne Perreault
(perreaul@ucalgary.ca)<BR>>Cheryl Suzack
(csuzack@ualberta.ca)<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>