[IPSM] Call for proposals: Re/envisioning Relationships conference

[hhazel at gmail.com]

SECOND CALL FOR PROPOSALS:  PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, PANELS, OTHER PRESENTATION
FORMATS

RE/ENVISIONING RELATIONSHIPS CONFERENCE:
ABORIGINAL AND NON-ABORIGINAL ALLIANCES AND COALITIONS FOR INDIGENOUS
RIGHTS, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Trent University  -- Department of Indigenous Studies
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

November 2, 3, 4, and 5th, 2006

Increasingly, Aboriginal communities and organizations engage in alliances
and coalitions with non-Aboriginal people in pursuing their goals of
self-determination or in undertaking specific objectives.  Land rights,
resource rights, protecting the environment, challenges to racism, or other
strategic action may set the stage for forming relationships.

This conference will focus on relationships when people come together in
alliances and coalitions.  Why do people choose to work together?  What is
achieved by doing so?  What are the areas of relationships that work well?
What tensions arise in relationships?  What do people achieve through their
joint efforts?  What lessons are learned from working together?

This conference seeks to bring together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people
to share stories, experiences, or theories about relationships.  The
conference will be of particular interest to:
. community leaders and activists working at the grassroots in Aboriginal
rights, and/or social and environmental justice
. workers in organizations involved in Aboriginal rights or social and
environmental justice
. academics and students whose work relates to Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal
relationships in social change processes

Conference organizers invite presentations that may take the form of formal
paper presentations (20 minutes), workshops (1.5 hrs.), panels (1.5 hours)
or other presentation forms (e.g. short film or play).  Presentations may be
case studies, analysis of experiences, or relevant theoretical
explorations.  Proposals may include assembling a panel around a relevant
theme or issue. Presentations that include Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
partners are of particular interest to the conference.  While the main focus
of this conference is on the Canadian context, international experiences are
also welcome.

Selection of presentations will attempt to represent the diverse contexts in
which Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alliances and coalitions form, including
themes, identities and geographies.


Presenters are expected to assume the costs of their participation in the
conference, including registration, travel and accommodation.

One of the outcomes of this conference will be an edited book on
Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal alliances and coalitions.  Conference papers and
presentations will be considered for inclusion in this book.  Towards that
end, conference sessions will be recorded.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE:  JULY 15, 2006

Proposal Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted to conference
organizers at alliances at trentu.ca.

Information and registration forms can be found at the conference website:
www.trentu.ca/alliances
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