[Indigsol] CALL FOR PAPERS: Aditawazi Nisoditadiwin: Empowerment Through Knowledge - Carleton, March 12-13

[Ben Powless]

apologies if this was sent out already... I'm thinking of submitting on
Indigenous Food Sovereignty (in a Changing Climate), if anyone else has a
similar interest...

CALL FOR PAPERS

Aditawazi Nisoditadiwin: Empowerment Through Knowledge
Carleton University, Ottawa ON
March 12-13, 2009

In Anishnabemowin, aditawazi nisoditadiwin means being between two worlds
with an understanding of both. This conference, organized by a group of
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal graduate students in Canadian Studies, will
display how knowledge derived from both indigenous and academic traditions
is empowering. The conference theme is "self-determination and ways
forward".

Keynote speaker Bonita Lawrence will present "Fractured Homeland: Federal
Recognition, Land and Algonquin Identity in Ontario". The Aditawazi
Nisoditadiwin conference organizing committee is calling for papers that
examine the following areas of indigenous studies:

* Self-determination and sovereignty
* Land and treaty rights
* Oral history and storytelling
* Language study and revitalization
* Indigenous women's issues
* Elder-youth issues
* Indigenous identity issues
* History from indigenous perspectives
* Healing from the effects of colonialism
* Indigenous literatures and criticisms
* Social determinants of health
* Traditional knowledge and the environment
* Economic development and corporate social responsibility
* Education successes, needs and reform
* Indigenous peoples and the arts
* Indigenous peoples and recreation
* Indigenous peoples and the media
* Canada-Aboriginal relations
* Indigenous research methodologies

Please send abstracts to aditawazi at gmail.com by February 9, 2009. Abstracts
must be no longer than 1 page in length. Please include the title of your
paper, your contact information and the university or institution with which
you are affiliated. For questions and further information about the
conference, visit our website at http://aditawazi.googlepages.com.





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Trisha Nagpal
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