****PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY**** *Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area*** * * *2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association* *February 10-13, 20010* *Southwest/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 [log in to unmask] American Literature and Language Arts *Citlalin Xochime* Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences [log in to unmask] 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/. -- __________________________________ L. Rain A. Cranford-Gomez Area Co-Chair Native/Indigenous Studies PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences Editor Eame'ha (forthcoming) Digital Media Journal Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers _________________________________ "We are the people who left water to enter a dry world. We have survived soldiers and drought, survived hunger...It is why when we love we remember our lives in water" --Linda Hogan ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu