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 The Eleventh Annual American Indian Studies Association Conference: “Sustainability - Indigenous Community - Activism”  Please click on Title to be taken to our Conference Page.

 

Memorial Union
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona

 

For more information, please contact:
Elizabeth Martos
480-727-8691
Elizabeth.Martos@asu.edu

 

Or our main desk phone number is 480-965-3634.

 


The 11th Annual American Indian Studies Association Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS

 
The organizers of the AISA Conference welcome proposals for paper presentations, panel presentations, and workshops on the following topics:
 
  • Traditional Indigenous Sustainability
  • Sustainability in the Modern Indigenous Era
  • Sustainability and Indigenous Land and Water Rights
  • Euro-American Politics and Indigenous Sustainability
  • Indigenous Community as Home
  • The Sacred and the Profance: the Indigenous Community Today
  • Maintaining Indigenous Community and Modernity as a Life and Death Matter
  • Indigenous Intellectual and Artistic Leadership and Indigenous Community
  • Activism in Artistic Vision: A Return to Tradition
  • Indigenous Philosophy as Activism
  • Re-establishing Indigenous Knowledge through Activisim
  • Is Indigenous Activism Useful or Not Useful?
  • Indigenous American Activism: A United North, Central, and South America
 
Please submit feedback and/or questions re: above listed paper presentations, panle presentations, workshops to Simon Ortiz simon.ortiz@asu.edu or call (480) 965-7999.
 
Please submit title of paper presentation (time lime: 45 min.); a brief description (2-3 sentences of the session topic; name, tribal and university affiliation, degree earned, address (email and regular postal mail) for each presenter; an abstract (200 word limit) of the paper, panel or workshop; and a list of each of the presenter's audio and audio/visual/technology needs.
 
Please distribute this AISA Conference Information and Call-for-Papers widely.
 
Send proposals by email attachment to Elizabeth Martos at elizabeth.martos@asu.edu or a diskette in MS Word by November 15, 2009 to:  Liz Martos, American Indian Studies Program, Arizona State University, PO Box 874603, Tempe, AZ, 85287-4603.
 
For further information, please contact AIS at (480) 965-3634 or Simon Ortiz (480) 965-79
 
 
 


The Simon Ortiz & Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community

 
Along with American Indian Studies inviteNatural landscape
Students, ASU Faculty, and Friends To
attend an evening with Leslie Marmon Silko.
Including a reading from her forthcomming
memoir Turquoise Ledge.   
 
Where – Heard Museum, Steele Auditorium (2301 N. Central Ave.) www.heard.org
 
When - Thursday, October 8, 2009
Reading & Audience Discussion – 7:00 p.m.
Book Signing - 8:00 p.m.