FW: CFP: Indigenous Women and Feminism (conference) (10/15/04; 8/25/05-8/28/05)

[Bizzaro, Resa Crane]

	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.
	 
	Resa
	
	

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

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