Call for Papers

AALS Indian Law Section Call for Papers

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Call for Papers for the AALS Annual Meeting

Friday, January 2 – Monday, January 5, 2015, Washington DC

The AALS Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section invites submissions on the topic “Bay Mills and the Future of Sovereign Immunity” for the Section’s 2015 AALS conference panel. Please submit abstracts (preferred to received full papers) to the Section Chair, Alex Pearl, at alex.pearl@ttu.edu by August 1, 2014. We anticipate interpreting the topic broadly, so please submit if you are doing work related to this concept. The Section Executive Committee will inform you if you have been chosen to be on the panel by September 1, 2015 so that you will know in time for the Spring Law Review submission cycle.

American Indian Law Journal CFP

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The American Indian Law Journal, published by the Seattle University School of Law, is currently accepting submissions for potential publication in the fall and spring issues.  The American Indian Law Journal serves as a vital online resource providing high quality articles on issues relevant to Indian law practitioners and scholars across the country. The deadline for submissions for the fall issue is August 31, 2014.  Our staff begins the editing process in mid-September, with publication occurring in November. Articles considered for publication in the spring issue must be submitted no later than December 15, 2014.

The American Indian Law Journal accepts articles and abstracts for consideration from students, practitioners, and law school faculty members.  For more information or to submit an article, please contact Jillian Held, Content Editor, at heldj@seattleu.edu.

 

Call for Papers, Walking with Our Sisters

Victoria Sweet

CALL FOR PAPERS

Walking with Our Sisters is seeking submissions for an edited collection tentatively entitled Keetsahnak, Our Sisters.

They are seeking scholarly and non-fiction essays that will contribute to the understanding of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada, the United States, and other colonial contexts worldwide.

Submission of a 300 word abstract is due January 24, 2014.

See full announcement here:  Call for Papers WWOS.

More information on the Walking with Our Sisters project including tour dates and pictures of the moccasin vamps here.

Univ. of Oregon: Alternative Sovereignties CFP — Dec. 1 Deadline

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Alternative Sovereignties_CallforPapers

Conference website here.

Call for Papers: 2014 Native American Literature Symposium

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

15th NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM

March 27-29, 2014

Mystic Lake Casino Hotel

Minneapolis, MN

MANY VOICES, ONE CENTER

Call for Proposals

DEADLINE: November 25, 2013

With literature as a crossroads where many forms of knowledge meet—art, history, politics, science, religion, film, cultural studies—we welcome once again spirited participation on all aspects of Native American studies. We invite proposals for individual papers, panel discussions, readings, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops.  We especially encourage presentations and panels on teaching children’s and young adult literature by indigenous writers.

Scheduled speakers include Eric Gansworth who just published a young adult novel, If I Ever Get Out of Here, and First Nations Manitoba writers Duncan Mercredi, Katherena Vermette, and Rosanna Deerchild whose work appears in Manitowapow.

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Oklahoma Writers of Color Anthology Is Accepting Submissions

Ann Tweedy

I received the following information from a listserv:

Mongrel Empire Press, an Eclectic Publishing House specializing in regional and uncommon literary works, is seeking submissions for an upcoming anthology featuring Oklahoma writers of color.

Quraysh Ali Lansana and Dr. Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, in collaboration with Mongrel Empire Press, seek to publish the writing of People of Color born and/or raised in Oklahoma or who have lived in the Oklahoma for five or more years. Though the editors prefer writing that speaks to some aspect of life in the Sooner State (politics, history, culture, the land, etc), all topics and genres are welcome. This anthology will be the first to document exclusively the lives of minorities in Oklahoma. We are looking for essays, interviews, short fiction, poetry and personal reflections for publication that explore life in Oklahoma as well as the state’s rich history.

Born and raised in Enid, OK, anthology editor Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of five poetry books, three textbooks, a children’s book, editor of eight anthologies, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. Quraysh earned an MFA at the Creative Writing Program at New York University where he was a Departmental Fellow and he served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing from 2002-2011. Quraysh is a member of the faculty of The Red Earth Creative Writing MFA Program at Oklahoma City University.

Co-editor Jeanetta Calhoun Mish was born in Hobart, OK and raised in Wewoka, OK; she completed her Ph.D. in American Literature at the University of Oklahoma in 2009. Her second poetry collection, Work Is Love Made Visible, was awarded the Oklahoma Book Award, the WILLA Award from Women Writing the West, and the Western Heritage Award. Jeanetta is a contributing editor to Oklahoma Today and to Sugar Mule: A Literary Magazine. Mish is also editor of Mongrel Empire Press and the director of The Red Earth MFA Program at Oklahoma City University.

Submission Guidelines:

1. All manuscripts must be typed. For multiple page manuscripts the title of the work and page number must appear on each page.

2. Manuscripts may be e-mailed as an attachment in Microsoft Word or in RTF.

3. All manuscripts must be submitted electronically.

4. A cover letter must be included with your attachment(s) listing the titles of submitted works and contact information. Also, please include acknowledgments if submitting previously published work.

5. All submitted material must include an e-mail address. Submissions without contact information will not be considered.

6.The deadline for consideration is October 31, 2013

Please send submissions to:

Oklahoma Writers of Color Anthology

https://mongrelempirepress.submittable.com/submit

E-mail general questions only to

okiewritersofcolorATgmailDOTcom
okiewritersofcoloranthology@gmail.com

If you know of previously published or historical work that should be included, please contact the editors at
okiewritersofcolorATgmailDOTcom
okiewritersofcoloranthology@gmail.com.

The projected date of publication for the Oklahoma people of color anthology is January 2014. the anthology will be available through most online bookstores and at local independent bookstores in Oklahoma. The editors are planning for a series of readings throughout the state where writers whose submissions appear in the book can present their work to the public.

About Mongrel Empire Press
Mongrel Empire Press was established in 2007 with a mission to publish well-written, thoughtfully-considered works across generic and disciplinary boundaries. The Press actively identifies and promotes Oklahoma and regional writers while at the same time making room for outside the region works that, because of their mixed generic, disciplinary, and philosophical approaches, cannot find a home at other presses that have a more narrowly defined mission.

Contact:
Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Editor
Mongrel Empire Press
mongrel@mongrelempire.org
http://www.mongrelempirepress.org

American Indian Law Journal Call for Papers

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The American Indian Law Journal, published by the Seattle University School of Law, is currently accepting submissions for potential publication in the fall and spring issues.  The American Indian Law Journal serves as a vital online resource providing high quality articles on issues relevant to Indian law practitioners and scholars across the country. The deadline for submissions for the fall issue is Wednesday September 4, 2013.  Our staff begins the editing process in mid-September, with publication occurring just after Thanksgiving. Articles considered for publication in the spring issue must be submitted no later than Wednesday February 5, 2014.

The American Indian Law Journal accepts articles and abstracts for consideration from students, practitioners, and law school faculty members.  For more information or to submit an article, please contact MJ McCallum, Content Editor, at mccallu5@seattleu.edu.  Past issues of the American Indian Law Journal are available at:

Spring Issue Volume I Issue II  

Fall Issue Volume I Issue I

We look forward to your submissions.

The American Indian Law Journal Editorial Board.

Call for Papers — Univ. of Oregon — Alternative Sovereignties

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Conference Proposal: Alternative Sovereignties

Call For Papers

“Alternative Sovereignties: Decolonization Through Indigenous Vision and Struggle”

To be held at the University of Oregon, May 9, 2014.

The concept of “sovereignty” as both an international political norm and expression of cultural distinctiveness and political autonomy is central to American Indian and First Nations discourse in the United States and Canada. Yet this language is often an imperfect reflection of the goals that tribal nations seek to pursue, suggesting rigid political and social boundaries around and within indigenous nations. This stands in stark contrast to political relationships based in tribal epistemologies that acknowledge social flexibility, interdependence, reciprocity and non-coercive, respectful relationships between and within national communities.

This conference will explore both “alternative sovereignties” and “alternatives to sovereignty” that might better meet the political, cultural and social aspirations of American Indian and First Nations communities. We are especially interested in the relationship between vision and struggle. “Vision” theorizes alternative forms of sovereignty that might better reflect the social and political goals of American Indian and First Nations. “Struggle” interrogates the rhetorical, representational and discursive strategies necessary to pursue these visions within adversarial cultural and political environments still defined by colonial power.

Potential questions for investigation the following: What might visions of “alternative sovereignties” or “alternative to sovereignty” look like? What values, hopes and aspirations would they express? In what ways do such visions align or exist in tension with contemporary expressions of the nation, sovereignty, self-determination and human rights both in Indian Country and beyond? What forms of contemporary political and social struggle will best allow Native peoples to develop and advance tribal visions that might substantively revise or intervene in non-tribal fields of power and knowledge? Finally, what are the theoretical and practical relationships between “vision” and “struggle,” and what role does Indigenous cultural and intellectual production serve in advancing these efforts? Reflecting the interdisciplinarity of Native Studies, the conference is committed to conversation across historical periods and academic and institutional boundaries, including literature, law, philosophy, cultural studies, political science, education, anthropology, history and the arts.

Please send brief proposals of no more than 300 words to alternative.sovereignties@gmail.com by September 1, 2013. Also include brief biographical information, including for example academic affiliation, primary area of research, and relevant experience. Applications from the broader Northwest or dealing with issues relevant to Northwest indigenous nations are especially welcomed. For questions, please contact the conference organizers at the address above.

Call for Papers, University of Tromso

Victoria Sweet

The University of Tromso has released a call for papers for its upcoming international symposium:

Extractive Industries in the North – what about Environmental Law and Indigenous Peoples Rights? 

The symposium will be held November 17-19, 2013.

The announcement and call for papers can be found here.

AALS Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section Call for Papers

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section of the AALS

Call for Papers for the AALS Annual Meeting

New York City, NY, Jan. 2-5, 2014

The AALS Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section invites submissions on the topic “The Relationship Between Indian Law and Tribal Law” for the Section’s 2014 AALS conference panel. The American Indian Law Review has agreed to publish selected papers associated with this call (the Law Review of course reserves the final publication decision). Please submit full papers, not just abstracts, to the Section Chair, Ezra Rosser, at erosser@wcl.american.edu, by August 1, 2013. We anticipate interpreting the topic broadly, so please submit if you are doing work related to this year’s topic! The Section Executive Committee (in connection with the Law Review) will inform you if you have been chosen to be on the panel by August 14, 2013 so that you will know in time for the Spring Law Review submission cycle.