****PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY**** * * *Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area** * *2008 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association* *February **13–16**, 2008 * *Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's 29th 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 NOVEMBER 15, 2007**. * - 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 in/and film - Native representations in popular culture (television, comic books, video/computer games, film, etc…) - Politics and Native peoples - 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 Sara Sutler-Cohen at the contacts below. Please forward this email to people who would be interested in participating. *Dr. Sara C. Sutler-Cohen* Area Co-Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] Department of Sociology Bellevue Community College 3000 Landerholm Circle, SE Bellevue, WA 98007 The 2008 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 29 th 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.h-net.org/~swpca/ <http://www.swtexaspca.org/> . PLEASE NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS DECEMBER 31, 2007. -- "i can't find the time can't find the space liminal, like between desert sands and moon drenched sea down there by moonstone and cobbled antitheses." -- "i can't find the time can't find the space liminal, like between desert sands and moon drenched sea down there by moonstone and cobbled antitheses." ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org