Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 30th Anniversary Conference,
Albuquerque, NM

The 2009 WS/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt
Regency downtown.

The American Indian/Indigenous Film Area is looking for panels, papers, and workshops
on topics related to American Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous film. We welcome proposals from all disciplines that examine, utilize, promote, or teach.

Native/Indigenous film and media are welcome. The American Indian/Indigenous Film Area
is particularly interested in bringing together Native filmmakers and Native/non-Native
academics to talk about the burgeoning field of Indigenous Film.

Some topics might include, but are not limited to:
* Native women filmmakers
* American Indian/Indigenous Film and/or filmmakers
* New Voices in Native/Indigenous film and media
* Needs, Access, and Issues in Native/Indigenous film
* The outcomes/consequences of using Native films across cultural boundaries and in
comparison to other cultural approaches
* Teaching American Indian or Indigenous films as part of a non-American Indian Studies
course, such as Humanities, American Studies, or English
* Disciplinary and cultural politics as they influence how we read Native film
* American Indians in Hollywood film
* Approaches to teaching American Indian film
* Indian and the Western (this could also apply to how Indigenous people globally are
positioned as "Indians" in national "Western" genres)
* Effects/impacts of Native representations in film/media on Native and non-Native
culture
* Showcasing new work (if you would like to facilitate a panel that screens new work,
please do so)

If you have specific ideas for topics, workshops, or panels that are not listed here,
please submit those as well.

Further information regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel,
registration, tours, etc) can be found at http://swtxpca.org/documents/130.html.
Register early for a discount rate and to reserve space at the conference hotel--rooms
fill quickly.

Date and Place: February 24-28, 2009

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
30 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.515.766.6710

Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues.

Final deadline for Proposals and Panels: December 1, 2008
Final Conference Registration: December 31, 2008 (All participants must be registered by this date).

Please send 100-200 word abstracts to:

M. Elise Marubbio,
Assistant Professor & Director Augsburg Native American Film Series CB 115
Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55454
(612) 330-1523
[email protected]