NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC HISTORY (US) CFP

2013 NCPH Call for Proposals
“Knowing your Public(s)—The Significance of Audiences in Public History”
2013 Annual Meeting, National Council on Public History
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 17-20, 2013

Celts in the Americas will be the first conference devoted to the history, culture, music, and literature of Celtic-speaking peoples in North and South America. Over 40 leading scholars will discuss Breton, Cornish, Irish Gaelic, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh immigrant communities and their fascinating, untold legacies in the Americas.

I am pleased to announce that the 2012 and 2013 meetings are now set:

The NAISA Fourth Annual Meeting will take place at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center from June 3rd (arrival date) through June 6th, hosted by the University of Massachusetts Boston, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Yale University.

The Fifth Annual Meeting will take place June 13-15, 2013 at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.

Read more for the 2012 Call for Papers (pdf attached), or read it in your packet at NAISA 2011.

NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES ASSOCIATION
(NAISA)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE ANNUAL MEETINGS

The Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association is seeking proposals from institutions interested in hosting the NAISA annual meeting in 2014 and beyond.

The 2011 election for NAISA officers has now concluded. Join me in congratulating our new officers:

President-Elect: K. Tsianina Lomaiwaima

Council (three year terms): Daniel Heath Justice and Jose Antonio (Tony) Lucero

Nominations Committee (three year terms): Jodi Byrd and Hokulani Aikau

Note: we had a technical issue that led to problems with the voting that has now been addressed.

The NAISA Council has authorized me to conduct the 2011 election of new association officers, and voting is now open. Voting will close on April 25th at noon Central Standard Time (North America).

Ballots, instructions, and statements and biographies of candidates for President-elect, Council members, and Nominations Committee members are accessible through the link “Election 2011” link in the Primary Links section on left-hand side of the NAISA home page.

Hello NAISA members and friends,

This message brings news of several updates regarding the association and the 2011 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) meeting in Sacramento, May 19-21.

The following information can now be found on the website (Sacramento meeting link at top left of page):

The PRELIMINARY PROGRAM is posted: use this to find the day/time your panel, roundtable, or paper is scheduled;
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION is open;
EXHIBITORS AND SPONSORS sign-up is now open;
HOTEL BOOKING at the Hyatt is open.

Call for Papers

Critical Aesthetics: Essentialism and Contemporary Native Art
Symposium to be held on May 5-6, 2011
George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY
Proposal Deadline: November 1, 2010

According to the Maori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith: “The significance of place, of land, of landscape, of other things in the universe, in defining the very essence of a people, makes for a very different rendering of the term essentialism as used by indigenous peoples.”1