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February 2012
• Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association 33rd Annual Conference
  Albuquerque, New Mexico
  
  February 8th - February 11th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: December 1st, 2011
  
  Proposals for both panels and individual papers are now being accepted for the Native/Indigenous Studies Area. Paper topics can include transnational and international Indigenous peoples’ issues. Topics may include Indigenous methodologies and interpretative frameworks, teaching popular culture in Native American Studies, life writing and Native literature, Native art and artists, Native peoples across borders: racial/physical/economic/political etc, Native representations in popular culture, sci-fi and speculative fiction, indigenizing popular culture, and many more. E-mail your 250 word abstract to nativestudiespca@gmail.com. For more information, please follow the link.
• "Where Are Your Keys?" Language Workshop
  San Xavier Education Department, San Xavier District, Tohono O'odham Nation (University of Arizona)
  
  February 10th - February 11th, 2012
  As part of the American Indian Language Development Institute's (AILDI) mission to provide critical training to strengthen efforts to revitalize and promote the use of Indigenous languages across generations, the organization will introduce and demonstrate "Where Are Your Keys?," a new and different method for language teaching. The two day, hands-on workshop will introduce the key concepts and techniques of WAYK, enabling participants to quickly learn any language by talking with a fluent speaker without the help of textbooks, dictionaries or translations. The WAYK method is not intended to replace any existing language learning method necessarily, but it is an additional tool that can be used and modified to enhance any current language learning curriculum. The workshop will be entirely experiential, not theoretical.
• 20th Annual National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates National Conference
  Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  
  February 13th - February 18th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: November 5th, 2011
  
  The National Association of African American Studies and its affiliates (including the National Association of Native American Studies) will hold its 20th Annual National Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from February 13-18, 2012. Abstracts are not to exceed two pages, and should relate to any aspect of the Native American and Indigenous Peoples experience. Subjects may include literature, demographics, history, politics, economics, education, health care, fine arts, religion, social sciences, business, and many more. In your application, please indicate the following: paper title, name, home and institution/organization address and e-mail, and the amount of time required for your presentation (25 or 45 minutes).
• Indigenous Spaces: Pushing the Boundaries of History, Bodies, Geographies, and Politics
  New York City (Columbia University )
  
  February 15th - February 15th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: December 28th, 2011
  
  The Collaborations on Indigenous Studies Project (CISP) invites graduate students to submit proposals for a graduate student colloquium on the theme of Indigenous Spaces: Pushing the Boundaries of History, Bodies, Geographies, and Politics, to take place at Columbia University in the City of New York on February 15, 2012. Contributors are encouraged to think about ‘Indigenous spaces’ that connect Indigenous communities, bodies (understood in a broad sense), histories, geographies, and academia. Graduate students interested in participating should submit a paper abstract recent CV as email attachments to the colloquium organizers, Aurélie Roy and Maria John, at indigenous.spaces@gmail.com.
• Native American and Indigenous Self-Represenation In Canada, The US, and Mexico
  The Netherlands (University of Groningen )
  
  February 23rd - February 24th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: November 15th, 2011
  
  The Centre for Canadian Studies Student Platform presents: Native American and Indigenous Self-Representation in Canada, the US and Mexico This conference seeks to explore the ways in which the Indigenous people of Mexico, Canada, and the United States are dispelling stereotypes, questioning discourses, and actively affirming their presence. Abstract proposals not exceeding 250 words from PhD candidates and researchers are welcome through November 15, 2011 to the following e-mail: studenten.canada.let@rug.nl. Papers will be published after the conference.
• Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
  New York, New York
  
  February 24th - February 28th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: September 28th, 2011
  
  The Association of American Geographers invites you to join fellow geographers, GIS specialists, and environmental scientists in New York City from February 24 to February 28, 2012, for the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. The week-long conference will host more than 7,000 geographers from around the world and feature over 4,000 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars, experts, and researchers. Sessions will be organized around topics and special themes such as: Political Geography, Natural Hazards, Cartography, Geography Education, Climate Change, Human Geography, GIScience & Technologies, Physical Geography, Planning & International Development, and Social Justice.
  Participating Presses: Minnesota
March 2012
• Phillips Fund for Native American Research
  
  March 1st, 2012
  Registration Deadline: March 1st, 2012
  

  The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States and Canada. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, psycholinguistics, or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The committee distinguishes ethnohistory from contemporary ethnography as the study of cultures and culture change through time. The grants are intended for such costs as travel, tapes, films, and consultants' fees but not for the purchase of books or permanent equipment. Applications and letters of support are due by March 1.

• American Indian Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship
  New Haven, Connecticut (Yale University)
  
  March 8th - March 8th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: March 8th, 2012
  
  The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders invite applications for the 2011 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. The Roe Cloud Fellowship is intended to develop American Indian Studies at Yale and by extension throughout the academy by facilitating the completion of the doctorate by scholars working on pressing issues related to the American Indian experience. Scholars working on topics in Indigenous Studies that relate to the study of North American Indians are also encouraged to apply. The Fellowship will support a graduate scholar in any doctoral field for the academic year, beginning August 1, 2011 and ending July 31, 2012. Graduate students working towards careers in higher education who have completed all doctoral requirements but the dissertation are invited to apply. The expectation is that the dissertation will be completed during the fellowship year. The criteria for selection will be based solely on an assessment of the quality of the candidate's work and the project’s overall significance for the study of American Indian and/or Indigenous Studies.
• Canyon Country Community Lecture Series
  Flagstaff, Arizona (Cline Library, Northern Arizona University)
  
  March 8th - March 8th, 2012
  Jeffrey Shepherd, author of We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People, discusses his work with the Hualapai Nation and the tribe's history at 7 p.m.
  Participating Presses: Arizona
• CLAW Conference: Race, Gender and Sexualities in the Atlantic World
  Charleston, South Carolina (College of Charleston)
  
  March 9th - March 11th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: December 2nd, 2011
  
  The Carolina Lowcountry in the Atlantic World Program (CLAW) at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC invites paper proposals addressing women, gender, and sexuality in the Atlantic World 1500-Present. The featured keynote speaker is Jennifer L. Morgan (New York University). We invite scholars to submit proposals for individual papers and panels that might address such questions as performances of gender, gender and discovery, colonialism, constructions of sexualities,Native American contact, race and gender, African diaspora and slavery.
• Canyon Country Community Lecture Series
  Prescott, Arizona (Prescott Public Library)
  
  March 11th - March 11th, 2012
  Jeffrey Shepherd, author of We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People, discusses his work with the Hualapai Nation and the tribe's history at 2 p.m., hosted by the Grand Canyon Association.
  Participating Presses: Arizona
• 19th Navajo Studies Conference
  Santa Fe, New Mexico (The Institute of American Indian Arts)
  
  March 14th - March 17th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: January 15th, 2012
  
  The Navajo Studies Conference Board, in collaboration with the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), will host the 19th Navajo Studies Conference, March 14 - 17, 2012. The conference will be on the IAIA campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This year's theme is "Cycles of Life and Seasons of Change-Cultivating the Seeds for our Future."
• Occupied: Taking up Space and Time
  Bloomington, Indiana (Indiana University–Bloomington)
  
  March 22nd - March 24th, 2012
  An International Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference entitled “Occupied: Taking up Space and Time” will be held at Indiana University – Bloomington from March 22-24, 2012. This 9th annual conference is hosted by the graduate students of the IU Department of English. Recent calls to occupy space for indefinite durations have provoked us to consider what it means to occupy or to be occupied both spatially and temporally. The current position of “occupy” as a political buzzword confers a multiplicity of new meanings onto a concept already charged with complex histories and forms. This conference seeks to explore the cultural significance and interrelations of its many meanings and implications, from mental pre-occupation and obsession, to the physical spaces we occupy (locked bathrooms to occupied nations), to the ways in which we spend or take up time. Tracing the theoretical, formal, and political implications of this issue necessitates a variety of methodologies and disciplinary perspectives, so we particularly welcome interdisciplinary approaches considering any time period. See website for a list of suggested topics and proposal information.
• Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America
  Salt Lake City, Utah (University of Utah)
  
  March 23rd - March 24th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: January 13th, 2012
  Registration Deadline: March 12th, 2012
  
  The conference welcomes papers and posters on any aspect of American Indian Languages. This year the main emphasis will be on language documentation and description, computational approaches to documentation and revitalization, community outcomes of language documentation, and lessons learned from language documentation. However, presentations which address the following themes are also acceptable: language revitalization, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, text collection and analysis, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Proposals for special workshops in language revitalization, such as materials development, orthographic issues, and the use of technology within documentation programs, are also encouraged. These proposals should specify which person or persons will lead the discussion, and what the proposed topic/question for discussion is. The deadline for workshop proposals is December 16, 2011 This year there will be a $100 'Future Scholar' award for the best student abstract to be presented at the conference. Please make sure to indicate if you are a student during the abstract submission process. American Indian participants are especially invited and encouraged to attend.
• Society for Applied Anthropology
  Baltimore, Maryland
  
  March 27th - March 31st, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: October 15th, 2011
  
  This meeting invites advocates, activists, policy makers, scholars and researchers to respond creatively to the 2012 program theme, “Bays, Boundaries, and Borders,” with papers, posters, roundtable discussions, sessions or videos on a broad range of issues, problems or topics including those that arise from the interaction of people with their natural or community environments; those that help us better understand or “push beyond” the current boundaries of our knowledge, methods, practices or theories in helping resolve human problems; and those focused on border control and the crossing or transport of goods, people or ideas across borders.
• Cultural Studies Association
  San Diego, California (University of California, San Diego)
  
  March 28th - April 1st, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: October 11th, 2011
  
  The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites participation in its tenth annual conference. This year’s theme, “Culture Matters,” calls for proposals that critically and creatively reflect on culture and “the material” broadly conceived. How do we theorize the relationship between culture and materiality? In what ways might interdisciplinary formations such as ethnic studies, critical gender studies, queer theory, indigenous studies, and new media studies challenge or redefine notions of the material? How should cultural critics understand the material in relationship to the immaterial? What are the cultural-material aspects of knowledge production both inside and outside the university? How does culture become a material force and how can cultural critics and producers intervene in or transform institutions and material practices? In short, what do materialist cultural studies projects look like now and what forms should they take in the future? We welcome proposals from all areas and on all topics of relevance to cultural studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology, geography, politics, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory, queer studies, ethnic studies, indigenous studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, legal studies, science studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, visual art and performance studies.
• Native American Literature Symposium 2012
  Albuquerque, New Mexico
  
  March 29th - March 31st, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: November 15th, 2011
  
  With literature as a crossroads where many forms of knowledge meet—art, history, politics, science, religion—we welcome once again spirited participation on all aspects of Native American studies. We invite proposals for individual papers, panel discussions, readings, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops, as well as retrospectives and forecasts for the future of the literatures of Indigenous peoples. This year NALS will celebrate IAIA's 50th anniversary and consider the 100th anniversary of statehood in New Mexico.
April 2012
• Society of Ethnobiology 35th Annual Meeting
  Denver, Colorado
  
  April 11th - April 14th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: February 8th, 2012
  Registration Deadline: March 15th, 2012
  
  The 35th annual meeting of the Society of Ethnobiology seeks to explore the importance and power of linking conservation efforts to communities. The SoE encourages presentations that do the following: Highlight engagement and collaboration with indigenous peoples, recognize the importance of working with children and elders, incorporate innovations in environmental education, document conservation (or lack there of) in the paleoecological and archaeological records, integrate diverse kinds of knowledge, recognize the importance of traditional knowledge in conservation and restoration, investigate the application of archaeobiological data to conservation, and provide different perspectives on land and natural resource management. For abstract submission and other general information, please follow the link above.
• Eighth Annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference
  Pembroke, North Carolina (University of North Carolina Pembroke)
  
  April 12th - April 13th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: January 27th, 2012
  
  Proposals are invited for papers and panels addressing the study of American Indians in the Southeast cultural area. Topics may include academic or creative works on: archaeology, education, history, socio-cultural issues, religion, literature, oral traditions, art, identity, sovereignty, health and other matters. Creative works may include any written, visual, musical, video, digital or other creative production that connects to Southeast Indian peoples’ experiences, histories or concerns. Proposals are welcome from all persons working in the field.
• Organization of American Historians and the National Council on Public History
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  April 19th - April 22nd, 2012
  On the one-hundredth anniversary of two of the most potent third-party presidential challenges in U.S. history, the Organization of American Historians and the National Council on Public History will meet in Milwaukee, a shoreline city where immigrant leaders initiated innovative public policies during the industrial era. Panels will address the shaping role of evolving market systems, class relations, and migrations over the long chronological sweep of American history, and explore the frontiers of social imagination and/or territorial encounters that have altered understandings of other peoples and traditions. The meeting also will include a live broadcast of Backstory with the American History Guys.
  Participating Presses: North Carolina
• EPA Region 10 Tribal Leaders’ Summit
  Grand Ronde, Oregon
  
  April 30th - May 4th, 2012
  This year's theme is "Common Ground: Sharing Successes, Experiences, and Resources." The Summit will bring together federal and tribal governments to explore opportunities to partner and leverage shared resources. Tracks include: 1) Waste (emergency response, junk metal/litter, recycling/composting); 2) Toxics (setting standards for water/ sediment, household toxics, exposure reduction, monitoring, education); 3) Sustainable Communities/Growth (green infrastructure planning, stormwater management, alternative energy & conservation, climate change); and 4) Hot Topics (other topics not covered by the above three categories).
May 2012
• 19th Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium
  Kamloops, British Columbia (Thompson Rivers University)
  
  May 17th - May 19th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: February 1st, 2012
  
  We welcome presenters across the complete spectrum of Indigenous language from traditional teaching and learning to research, to language preservation innovations, to “effective practices” workshops, from formal to informal presentations and/or performances. An important sub-theme of the symposium is the importance of an understanding of how to garner new knowledge that will guide teachers, researchers, and other professionals. We would like to encourage former SILS presenters to consider coming back to provide updates and progress reports of their work.
• Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Conference
  Eugene, Oregon (University of Oregon)
  
  May 23rd - May 24th, 2012
  Students from a diversity of disciplines will present research related to climate and culture in the Americas alongside faculty and graduate students. Students will present their research in either oral paper panels or poster sessions, and a broader local and regional community will be invited to participate, including American Indian and Alaska Native students from tribal colleges and others from native communities. The conference will also have keynote lectures from indigenous leaders involved in climate change issues from Alaska to the continental United States.
• Latin American Studies Association International Congress
  San Francisco, California
  
  May 23rd - May 26th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: April 1st, 2011
  
  A number of Latin American countries already are celebrating, or soon will celebrate, the achievement of 200 years of national independence. The bicentennial commemorations represent not only an opportunity to convey and promote a sense of national unity based on collective accomplishments, but also an occasion for political, intellectual, and cultural reassessments of the past and present. In general, they are characterized by more complex views of the meaning of the revolutionary wars and of the scale of the social, economic, and human costs of nationbuilding and modernization, especially in relation to indigenous and other subaltern populations. The result of this reconsideration is a relatively more diverse and inclusive notion of collective identity - one that takes into account the coexistence of many different (at times antagonistic) ethnic, sexual, and social histories. Although deep social inequalities still persist, the celebrations also coincide with an unprecedented period of democratic rule. The bicentennials offer an excellent opportunity for a multidisciplinary discussion about the multiple ways of constructing the past and forecasting the future; the new meanings of "independence," "revolution," and "national identity;" the role of Latin America in the new global economic order; and the transformative power and limitations of democratic institutions in Latin America's third century of national independence.
  Participating Presses: Arizona, North Carolina
• Congress 2012 of the Humanities and Social Sciences-
  Waterloo, Ontario (Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo )
  
  May 26th - June 2nd, 2012
  Organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS), Congress brings together thousands of scholars, students, practitioners and policy makers in a different city each year to share ideas, discuss today’s complex issues and enrich their research. They gather under the aegis of more than 70 associations representing a rich spectrum of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. From theatre, literature and education to history, sociology and international development, Congress represents a unique showcase of scholarly excellence, creativity, and leadership. Congress 2012 is being co-hosted by Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. The theme for this year’s Congress is Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World. For more information, please follow the link above.
• Language Revitalization in the 21st Century: Going Global, Staying Local Conference
  CUNY Graduate Center, NYC (City University of New York)
  
  May 31st - June 1st, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: December 15th, 2011
  
  The CUNY Graduate Center and the International Centre for Language Revitalization of the Auckland University of Technology will hold a symposium on language revitalization in New York City from May 31st to June 1st, 2012. The first day will feature keynote speakers Dr. Tīmoti Kāretu (Māori) and Jesse Little Doe Baird (Wôpanâak), along with a host of invited speakers. The second day will include a poster session and film festival. The central goal of the symposium is to share successful revitalization strategies. Oral presentations will be organized around these themes: Learning that works, development of tools, resources and materials, collaborative initiatives between communities and academics and increasing awareness of threatened languages and revitalization movements.
June 2012
• Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
  Uncasville, Connecticut (UMass Boston, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, UMass Amherst, Yale University)
  
  June 3rd - June 6th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: November 1st, 2011
  
  On June 3-6, 2012, a group of New England institutions working collaboratively will host the fourth annual meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). The conference will be held at Mohegan Sun Resort on the Mohegan Tribe's Connecticut reservation. NAISA is a professional organization dedicated to supporting scholars and others who work in the academic field of Native American and Indigenous studies. Founded in 2008, NAISA hosts the premier scholarly meeting in Native studies. The association has more than 900 members from more than a dozen countries and scores of Indigenous nations and peoples. Organizers welcome anyone working in the field to join them in building the future of Native and Indigenous studies.
• 2012 International Congress of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums
  Tulsa, Oklahoma
  
  June 4th - June 7th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: November 15th, 2011
  
  The International Conference of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, provides a network of support for tribal cultural institutions and programs. It is a unique event that brings together a wide variety of people who share the common goal of cultural preservation. ATALM is a national non-profit membership organization. It maintains a network of support for indigenous programs, provides culturally relevant programming and services, encourages collaboration among tribal and non-tribal cultural institutions, and articulates contemporary issues related to developing and sustaining the cultural sovereignty of Native Nations.
• Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival - Call For Entries
  Kathmandu, Nepal
  
  June 7th - June 10th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: April 30th, 2012
  
  From June 7-10 2012, Indigenous Film Archive will bring the 6th edition of Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival. This festival is dedicated to the indigenous youths who are hauling forward with the history, heritage, and philosophy created by their ancestors along with modernity and development. Further information can be found at: http://ifanepal.org.np/news-60.
• Nebraska: Exercising Our Sovereignty - Using Research to Strengthen Policymaking
  Lincoln, Nebraska
  
  June 19th - June 19th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: February 17th, 2012
  
  This year’s 7th Annual National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center Tribal Leader/Scholar Forum will focus specifically on how tribes exercise their sovereignty around research. The Forum will highlight the value of research in American Indian and Alaska Native communities and feature how tribes and Native people are using research to advance sovereignty. The NCAI Policy Research Center is accepting proposals for the 7th Annual Tribal Leader/Scholar Forum held on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 in Lincoln, Nebraska by Friday, February 17, 2012. Proposals should be submitted via email to Christina Daulton, Program Manager, at cdaulton@ncai.org.
• International Indigenous Development Research Conference
  Auckland, New Zealand (Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga)
  
  June 27th - June 30th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: December 1st, 2011
  
  The 5th Biennial Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga conference will highlight Indigeneity and the multidisciplinary approach used for Indigenous development. Presentations and papers will address all aspects of the following themes central to the realization of Indigenous development: optimizing indigenous economic wellbeing, healthy and thriving Indigenous families, and enhancing Indigenous distinctiveness. Presentations will be 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions. There will be a limited number of panel presentations; please contact conference organizers as soon as possible if you are interested in convening a panel. All accepted authors will be invited to submit full papers to be published in the conference proceedings. For more information on the themes and outcomes to be addressed in papers and presentations, please visit the conference website.
July 2012
• Fourth International Conference on Climate Change Conference 2012
  Seattle, Washington (University of Washington)
  
  July 12th - July 13th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: February 14th, 2012
  
  The Climate Change Conference is for any person with an interest in, and concern for, scientific, policy and strategic perspectives in climate change. It will address a range of critically important themes relating to the vexing question of climate change. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the fields of climatology and environmental science, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by researchers and practitioners.
• Tepoztlán Institute: For Transnational History of the Americas
  Tepoztlán, Morelos, MX
  
  July 31st - August 5th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: December 1st, 2011
  
  Territory and territoriality are key questions in the Americas for a range of groups and in a host of different ways. Indigenous movements have long animated the struggle for territory, refusing the split whereby states grant constitutional reforms recognizing indigenous languages and other “cultural” rights while simultaneously accelerating military and corporate encroachment upon lands. In response to these and other incursions, activists have expanded demands for simply territory – land – to territoriality: a robust insistence on the spatial, historical, cultural, and material aspects of landscapes […] We invite participants to consider the multiple intersections of territoriality, nature, technology and desire to respond to questions about territoriality. See conference website for a complete listing of themes.
August 2012
• UNITY 2012 Conference
  Las Vegas, Nevada
  
  August 1st - August 4th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: November 18th, 2011
  
  The member alliances of UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc.-the Asian American Journalists Association, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and Native American Journalists Association - will gather at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas to participate in plenary sessions, professional development sessions, networking events, multicultural celebrations and more. The subject foci of the conference will consist of the following: current news/hot topics (ex. diversity, election, Arab Springs, Olympics etc), multimedia (ex. photography, video, audio, graphics, data visualization), new media (ex. social media, web dev, interactives), platforms (ex. newspaper, magazines, online, radio, television, mobile), professional developments (entrepreneurship, management, education, job mobility), and personal developments (ex. work life balance, financial planning). For more information, please follow the link above or e-mail assistant@unityjournalists.org.
September 2012
• 20th Anniversary of Returning the Gift
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  September 5th - September 7th, 2012
  Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Yukhika-latuhse, a storyteller with an independent program of Oneida Nation Arts Program, announce the 20th Anniversary of Returning the Gift to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 2012. The keynote speaker will be the amazing Joseph Bruchac, one of the original coordinators of Returning the Gift in 1992.
• WINHEC 2012 Research Conference-
  Haulien, Taiwan (National Dong Hwa Univeristy )
  
  September 19th - September 20th, 2012
  The World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium will hold its annual research conference in Hualien, Taiwan in 2012. The theme for this conference is "Celebrating and Sustaining Indigenous Knowledge in Times of Global Change."
October 2012
• Western History Association
  Denver, Colorado
  
  October 4th - October 7th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: September 1st, 2011
  
  The West has been contested ground, but there is more to the West than national sovereignty. Natives, explorers, conquerors, colonizers, sojourners, and settlers, all brought their own overlapping senses of order and community to the West. Each of these groups set out to establish boundaries of one sort or another. All of them failed to a greater or lesser degree. This is one of western history’s ironies: yesterday’s border crossers mark boundaries to impede tomorrow’s newcomers. The rooted and the rootless struggle for sustenance in the western soil. Yet westerners old and new somehow became native to the place while making their own histories on the ground that they claimed. That process continues. How shall we interpret this continuously evolving West? Western historians are invited to re-examine the history of an American West that is being made anew in our own time. The nature of borders – whether political, cultural, or other – as well as the places that they enclose are fitting subjects for your consideration. The origins, implications, and complications of a multicultural society beg to be revealed. The practice of history is ultimately a collective effort that belongs in the public arena. In Denver the community of western historians will meet again so that we may learn from one another.
  Participating Presses: Arizona, North Carolina
• National Indian Education Association
  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  
  October 18th - October 21st, 2012
  The NIEA Annual Convention and Tradeshow brings together Native leaders, congressional representatives, educators, students and school administrators to teach best practices, connect with others who are passionate about educating Native students, and pursue solutions to education issues that affect Native communities. Each year, the convention teaches attendees about the local tribal culture and language through various evening events. NIEA's board of directors and resolutions for yearly legislative priorities are also determined at this event. More information forthcoming.
• 18th Inuit Studies Conference
  Washington, D.C.
  
  October 24th - October 28th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: March 15th, 2012
  
  The theme of the 18th Inuit Studies Conference, "Arctic Inuit Connections: Learning From the Top of the World," will address the key issues related to the Inuit people, to the rapidly changing Arctic regions, and their critical resources. The ISC 2012 will be held in Washington, DC, from October 24 to October 28, 2012, across the Smithsonian campus on the National Mall. Due to its location, the conference will cover a broad spectrum of topics, including climate change and indigenous people; international cooperation in the Arctic; roles of Museums and museum collections in preserving Inuit languages, heritage, and culture; governmental programs in the northern regions and their interactions with local communities and Inuit cultural/political institutions.
• American Society for Ethnohistory
  Springfield, Missouri
  
  October 31st - November 4th, 2012
  Conference information forthcoming.
November 2012
• National Women's Studies Association
  Oakland, California
  
  November 8th - November 11th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: February 20th, 2012
  
  Feminism Unbound: Imagining a Feminist Future builds on our conversations about Feminist Transformations in 2011 by examining the ways feminist scholarship is transgressing such boundaries as public/private; gender conformity and sexuality; nationalism; disability, race, ethnicity, class and culture. It encourages us to explore our vision of 21st century feminism. What are the issues that are or should be shaping its direction? How are global movements of people and ideas changing our theoretical lenses, political and economic realities, as well as our cultural productions and representations? What are the most transformative forms and foci of activist engagements, particularly in light of contemporary patterns of global interconnectedness, accompanied by unparalleled economic crises and burgeoning political movements? As scholars committed to progressive social change, what are the assumptions upon which we base our knowledge claims and select tools to investigate our past, explain our current realities, and work for a different, more equitable future both locally and globally?
• American Anthropological Association
  San Francisco, California
  
  November 14th - November 18th, 2012
  Conference information forthcoming.
• American Studies Association 2012
  San Juan, Puerto Rico
  
  November 15th - November 18th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: January 26th, 2012
  
  The site of the 2012 conference calls on us to continue thinking deeply about the conceptual and methodological demands of a truly transnational American Studies. From Christopher Columbus's second voyage in the late fifteenth century to the irony of an African American president's state visit to Puerto Rico in the early twenty-first, the long history of this island and its peoples evokes many crucial themes regarding the transnational traffics generated by imperialism and anti-imperialism: indigeneity, conquest, and resistance. This year's theme "Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future" reminds us that a transnational American studies must also be a truly interdisciplinary inquiry into how the material and symbolic are imbricated, how "culture" encompasses the imaginary and the everyday, how big political events and ideologies, are lived in intensely translocal ways.
• Performing Island Identities: Music, Dance, Folk Theatre, Storytelling, and Performance Traditions
  Gazimağusa (Famagusta), North Cyprus
  
  November 19th - November 21st, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: March 15th, 2012
  
  Island communities are often rich in traditions, preserving elements of expressive culture and mingling foreign traditions, leading to new indigenous forms. Performance traditions are important to forming and maintaining a sense of unique identity. Whether calypso in Trinidad, dance in North Cyprus, storytelling in Ireland, Noh and Bunraku theatre in Japan, matináda poetry in Crete, Up-Helly-Aa guizing in Shetland, or fiddle music in Newfoundland, many performance traditions possess symbolic value for islands. Through academic talks and cultural events, this island studies conference will explore how island traditions develop as well as form and maintain identity. The folklorist and fiddler Alan Jabbour will act as a keynote speaker. A major figure in American public folklore, Jabbour has been founding director of the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center and president of the American Folklore Society.
January 2013
• American Historical Association
  New Orleans, LA
  
  January 3rd - January 6th, 2012
  Proposal Deadline: February 15th, 2012
  
  The 127th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 3–6, 2013, in New Orleans. 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, described in greater detail in the article, is “Lives, Places, Stories.” While seeking proposals for sessions that explore facets of this broad theme, we also welcome submissions on the histories of all places and time periods, on many different topics, and on the uses of varied sources and methods. 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
April 2013
• Organization of American Historians 2013 Meeting
  San Francisco, California
  
  April 11th - April 14th, 2013
  Proposal Deadline: February 15th, 2012
  
  This annual meeting of the OAH is titled "Entangled Histories: Connections, Crossings, and Constraints in U.S. History." The purpose of this meeting is to explore the "entangled" history of the United States, encompassing cross-border interactions, conflicts and collaboration based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, and class, and intersections ranging from the global to the local. The theme is designed to examine and complicate a broad range of "entanglements," paying attention to the possibilities as well as the limitation of these interactions. The program will cover the full chronological sweep of the American past, from pre-Columbian years to the present day.
May 2013
• Latin American Studies Association International Congress
  Washington, D.C.
  
  May 29th - June 1st, 2013
  The theme of the 31st annual meeting of the Latin American Studies Association is, "Towards a New Social Contract?" Additional information forthcoming.
  Participating Presses: Arizona, North Carolina
June 2013
• Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
  Saskatoon (University of Saskatchewan)
  
  June 13th - June 15th, 2013
  Additional information available in Summer 2012.
  Participating Presses: Oregon State, Minnesota, Arizona, North Carolina
September 2013
• Critical Ethnic Studies II
  Chicago, Illinois (University of Illinois-Chicago )
  
  September 19th - September 21st, 2013
  The themes for this Critical Ethnic Studies conference are "Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy," and "Social Transformation and the Academic Industrial Complex." The conference will feature speakers such as Taiaiake Alfred, Robin D.G. Kelley, Vijay Prashad, Jasbir Puar, Cedric Robinson, Patrick Wolfe and Jessica Yee. The call for papers will go out in January 2012.