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Developing Development: Native American and Indigenous Peoples and Questions of Progress
Thursday, February 18, 6-8PM. Kimmel Center, Rm 905.
New York University*
Deadline for submissions is Monday, February 8th, 2010
The Native Peoples Forum, The Native American and Indigenous Students Club, and the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs invites participation in its second Native American and Indigenous Roundtable at NYU.
This roundtable considers development both in terms of how Native and Indigenous peoples have worked for their own development and indicators of growth appropriate to their own experiences as well as how outside social and economic development has impacted Native and Indigenous populations and land. The roundtable panel format allows for short, 10-15 minute presentations followed by an extended dialogue between participants, a moderator, and audience members. Scholars, activists, and practioners are welcome to submit a short description of what they would like to present. Works-in-progress are welcome.
To submit a paper or presentation, please email max.liboiron@nyu.edu <mailto:max.liboiron@nyu.edu> with a description or abstract (maximum 250 words), and your institutional or community affiliation as well as any tribal affiliation, if applicable. Participation is open to any member of the NYU community and the Native Peoples Forum. Please note that your submission represents your commitment to present on Thursday, February 18, from 6-8PM at NYU.
This is the second in a series of roundtables that address Native and Indigenous historical, political, cultural and social issues. All events include Native American and Indigenous scholars and researchers from NYU and the Native Peoples Forum. Please note: if there is no native or Indigenous representation on the roundtable, the event will be canceled or postponed.
Future sessions include: Talk About Voices: Native and Indigenous Sociolinguistics and Language, Thursday, April 1, 2010.
For more information, or to participate in upcoming roundtables, please contact max.liboiron@nyu.edu
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CFP: RESISTANCES: counter-conduct, inter-disruptions, and compromising acts
Concordia University | Montréal, Québec
DEADLINE: January 20, 2010
conference dates: April 15 and 16, 2010
keynote: Dr. Amelia Jones
Resistance is not new. Resistance has been done. Is there any hope for resistances of the future? What some would call the failure of resistance to make lasting change confronts the hope for engagement with cynicism. Yet resistance returns when dissent is not accounted for. As we know, resistance and repetition know each other intimately, either as revolution or compulsion. Is this violent intimacy desirable? Indeed, desire and seduction are always already implicated in a discussion of resistance.
While power is dispersed, implicated within us both as disciplinary and dissenting agencies, we bear the scars of these fragmentary forces. How do these conflicts act within and through us?
Resistances, historical and to come, the repetition of resistant acts, the return of revolution, the failure or impossibility of oppositional tactics, the violence of two opposing forces and the underlying violence of consensus – these are some of the discussions we hope to elaborate over the course of this conference.
Finally, does talking about it work? Can we resolve, analyze, work through divisive impasses? Or, is there a limit that resists or even forbids resolution?
By initiating a call on the theme of resistances, we are exposing ourselves to failure:
it is a paradox to solicit resistance, a paradox that we, as catalysts, cannot resolve. But the unresolvable aspects of this paradox are the points of friction from which we hope this event to depart, to take issue…
Papers can engage with aspects of resistance such as:
political, artistic, philosophical, physical, psychoanalytic, ethical
• resistant viral strains, antibodies
• historical or contemporary events of resistance, war, apartheid
• counter-histories, narrative of revolution, micro-political acts, counter-cartographies
• protest, change, stasis, resistance and the force of law
• failure, hope, love, intimacy
• power, public and private
• violence, solidarity, antagonism
• memory, trauma, repression
Special call:
As a sub-stream of the Resistances conference, we also invite participants to consider delivering academic papers in non-academic settings. Set-up like flashmobs, these presentations will be given in public spaces for an incidental audience. If interested, please send your submission with a note of interest in being considered for this special call. Please include a suggestion for which public space you think your paper would be best presented in. For example, a paper about migration in an airport or bus station. If you are interested in participating in this special stream but cannot propose a space, we are more than willing to suggest one.
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CFP: Conference on Dark/Death/Thanatourism (New York, April 22-23, 2010)
Abstract Deadline: Please send a 250-word abstract, a 50-word narrative biography, and contact information in one single word or pdf document by January 28, 2010 to brigitte@nyu.edu.
Thanatourism, also known as dark or death tourism, refers to the exhibition, promotion and attraction to sites of violent death, such as former prisons or concentration camps, sites of murders, natural disasters and terror attacks, burial grounds and memorials. These sites are part of the recreational landscape of tourism, which, through the genre of thanatourism, has managed to incorporate this particular form of “negative sightseeing” into what is otherwise an industry dedicated to pleasure, time out of time, and escape, as well as to edification, spiritual experience, and personal transformation.
These are some of the issues that the conference will examine from a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective. The goal is not to compare the politics of memory or the architecture of memorials in different countries, but rather to identify fundamental issues and investigate the ways in which various sites of memory address them (or not).
Until recently, thanatourism has been studied mostly from a management and hospitality perspective. The conference aims to enrich the scholarship on the topic from a variety of methods and disciplines. Related topics include public policy, memory politics, trauma, art, human behavior, commerce, reception, media, and rituals, to name a few. We hope to cover prisons, concentration camps, “houses of terror,” sites of terror attacks and natural disasters, from Argentina to Hungary, New Zealand to New Orleans, Cambodia to Ground Zero.
The conference will take place at New York University on Thursday, April 22 and Friday, April 23, 2010 and will include a keynote speaker in the field. The conference sponsor is “Transitions,” an academic partnership between New York University and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France), and its seminar on memory and memorialization (www.nyucnrs.com).
Please send a 250-word abstract, a 50-word narrative biography, and contact information in one single word or pdf document by January 28, 2010 to brigitte@nyu.edu.
