****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 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 *Keynote Speaker: Joy Harjo* Joy Harjo is an internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She has published seven books of acclaimed poetry including *She Had Some Horses* , *In Mad Love and War* , *The Woman Who Fell from the Sky* , and her most recent *How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems *from W.W. Norton. Among her many awards are the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society. [photo from press kit at http://www.joyharjo.com ] 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. -- "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever." -- David St. Hubbins ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu