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Tribal Energy Economies: Investing in a Sustainable Future
Tempe, Arizona (Arizona State University)
March 25-26, 2010
Domestic energy production is undergoing a major evolution as we explore and expand traditional and new energy sources. Tribes are well-positioned to lead our nation into this next generation of development. This conference will bring together lected and community leaders from indian country, financing and enrgy industry experts, attorneys, and those in academia to chart a course that will allow tribes to increase their leverage now and create sustainable energy economies in the future.
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Southeast American Indian Studies Conference
Pembroke, North Carolina (UNC Pembroke)
April 8-9, 2010
The purpose of the Southeast Indian Studies Conference is to provide a forum for discussion of the culture, history, art, health and contemporary issues of Native Americans in the Southeast. The conference serves as a critical venue for scholars, students and all persons interested in American Indian Studies in the region. This year's keynote speaker is Karenne Wood.
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Forthcoming Events

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  • Society for Applied Anthropology
    Merida, Mexico
    March 24-27, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: closed
    Vulnerabilities and Exclusion in Globalization
  • Tribal Energy Economies: Investing in a Sustainable Future
    Tempe, Arizona (Arizona State University)
    March 25-26, 2010
    Domestic energy production is undergoing a major evolution as we explore and expand traditional and new energy sources. Tribes are well-positioned to lead our nation into this next generation of development. This conference will bring together lected and community leaders from indian country, financing and enrgy industry experts, attorneys, and those in academia to chart a course that will allow tribes to increase their leverage now and create sustainable energy economies in the future.
  • Conference on the Right To Water
    Syracuse, New York (Syracuse University)
    March 29-30, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: closed
    The struggles over the right to water have emerged as a focal point for political mobilization in a range of locations around the world. While struggles for the right to water can articulate with specific historical geographies, they simultaneously connect with borader global conerns and universal rights discourses. This conference brings together academics, policymakers, and activists.
  • Multicultural Perspectives Journal
    Editors are looking for contributions that link the Indigenous experience to multicultural education.
    March 30, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: March 30, 2010
  • Ecocide and Resistance Conference
    Bozeman, Montana (Montana State University)
    April 1-2, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: February 28, 2010
    Disruptions to the natural order affect the viability of all people but, for a variety of reasons, indigenous peoples' lives, lands, and communities are differentially affected. Moreover, notions of environmental integrity are intertwined with concerns over cultural, physical, and spiritual health. This conference provides an opportunity for scholars, students, and the public to engage with a wide range of perspectives on issues of environmental and social change through the rhetorical strategies and representational modes of Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples' communal, cultural, and ecological rights. The conference will be organized around four invited speakers of national prominence: Winona LaDuke (tentative), Henrietta Mann, Walter Ritte, Jr., and Daniel Wildcat.
  • Southeast American Indian Studies Conference
    Pembroke, North Carolina (UNC Pembroke)
    April 8-9, 2010
    The purpose of the Southeast Indian Studies Conference is to provide a forum for discussion of the culture, history, art, health and contemporary issues of Native Americans in the Southeast. The conference serves as a critical venue for scholars, students and all persons interested in American Indian Studies in the region. This year's keynote speaker is Karenne Wood.
  • National Association of Ethnic Studies
    Washington, D.C.
    April 8-10, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: closed
    Who Counts & Who's Counting?
  • Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America
    Salt Lake City, Utah (University of Utah)
    April 9-11, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: January 20, 2010
    CELCNA 2010
  • Association of American Geographers
    Washington, D.C.
    April 14-18, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: closed
    Registration Deadline: March 17, 2010
  • Endangered Language Fund Request for Porposals
    The Endangered Language Fund provides grants for language maintenance and linguistic field work. The work most likely to be funded is that which serves both the native community and the field of linguistics.

    Call for Proposals Deadline: April 20, 2010
  • Eleventh Annual CIC American Indian Studies Graduate Student Conference
    East Lansing, Michigan (Michigan State University)
    April 22-24, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: March 1, 2010
    This conference fosters continued dialogue among graduate students and faculty interested in American Indian studies, from the member universities.
  • 9th Annual Symposium of Native Scholarship
    Seattle, Washington (University of Washington)
    April 23, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: March 15, 2010
    "Indigenous Research and Relationships" At the heart of all research and scholarship lie relationships. These relationships involve researchers and the communities and individuals with whom we collaborate. They also involve our loved ones, our mentors and students, our data, and the academy itself, among many others. As Indigenous scholars, we are particularly mindful of maintaining and strengthening these relationships, according to our own people' teachings and the teachings of those with whom we collaborate. What are the relationships that you sustain, and that sustain you, within your research and scholarship?
  • IMLS Call for 2010 Native American Library Services Basic Grants
    The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accpeting applications for the 2010 grant round. The noncompetitive grants are designed to support traditional core library services in tribal communities across the country.

    Call for Proposals Deadline: April 30, 2010
  • Society of Ethnobiology
    Victoria, British Columbia (University of Victoria)
    May 5-8, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: February 15, 2010
    The Meeting Place: Integrating Ethnobiological Knowledge
  • 16th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
    Los Angeles, California (UCLA)
    May 6-8, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: January 15, 2010
    Submissions should address topics at the intersection of language, interaction, and culture.
  • International Society of Ethnobiology
    Tofino, British Columbia
    May 9-14, 2010
    Hishuk-ish tsa'walk, a Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations phrase that embodies the concept of "everything is one," the understanding that everything is connected and nothing is isolated from other aspects of life surrounding it and within it.
  • Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
    Tucson, Arizona
    May 20-22, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: closed
  • Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    Montreal, Quebec (Concordia University)
    May 28 - June 4, 2010
    Connected Understanding
  • 2010 Indigenous Mapping Network Conference
    Poulsbo, Washington (Suquamish Tribe)
    June 3-4, 2010
    A conference focused on using mapping tools to solve sovereignty, environmental, and cultural issues.
  • NGA PAI O TE Matauranga International Indigenous Conference
    Auckland, New Zealand (University of Auckland)
    June 6-9, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: March 31, 2010
    This conference will discuss strategies for generating social, educational, intellectual, and economic opportunities by building relationships that engage, understand, and accommodate difference to overcome the adverse effects that result from failure to understand sufficiently the difference among Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities and societies.
  • Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium
    Eugene, Oregon (University of Oregon)
    June 17 - July 30, 2010
    Language and Place
  • 11th Annual NHF Summer Symposium: Filmic representations of Indigenous Peoples
    Bucksport, Maine
    July 23-24, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: April 1, 2010
    The 2010 Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium will explore how amateur and noncommercial filmmakers around the world have created a wide range of representations regarding Indigenous peoples and cultures. We are interested in presentations focusing on interpretations of moving images that will improve our historical, cultural, global and critical understanding of how filmmakers working outside of the mainstream have been informed by, contributed to, and countered popular representations of Indigenous peoples.
  • Engaging Indigenous Communities: Resources, Rebellions, and Resurgence
    Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Canada (Algoma University)
    August 9-13, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: January 8, 2010
    The conference will focus on exploring Indigenous peoples' perspectives on resources, and the moments in history (and in present day) when Indigenous peoples have fought (peacefully or otherwise) to protect those resources.
  • 2010 Annual Meeting for the American Society of Ethnohistory
    Ottawa, Ontario
    October 14-16, 2010
    Call for Proposals Deadline: April 15, 2010
    "Creating Nations and Building States: Past and Present" This conference focuses on Indigenous societies and their relations with expanding colonial and modern state structures of canda, america, and Latin America. The association invities proposals that speak to and think creatively about this year's theme.
  • 125th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
    Boston, Massachusetts
    January 6-9, 2011
    Call for Proposals Deadline: February 15, 2010
    "History, Society, and the Sacred" The 2011 annual meeting convenes in Boston, a location redolent of numerous sacred sites and practices: churches of many denominations, patriotic landmarks, memories of witch trials. Our program’s theme, “History, Society, and the Sacred,” calls for papers that consider the many ways in which society and the sacred have converged and diverged and to trace those connections and disconnections over time. It invites presenters to consider the topic with all the interdisciplinary tools available to scholars today, to bring history, geography, archaeology, anthropology, literature, and many other fields into fruitful conversation.
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