FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PAPERS.=20 SYMPOSIUM: NATIVE AMERICAN ECOLOGIES: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.=20 ORGANIZERS: ANDREW SLUYTER & ALFRED H. SIEMENS.=20 CONFERENCE: THE 50TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS/CONGRESO = INTERNACIONAL DE AMERICANISTAS=20 VENUE: WARSAW, 10-14 JULY 2000.=20 Scholarship on past, present, and future Native American ecologies and = their spatial expressions as landscapes is by now well advanced and has=20 achieved many significant insights. Yet that scholarship has never been = well integrated, and therefore this symposium will be timely and=20 innovative. It will, for example, bring together the best current = scholarship on how ancient and present-day Native American agricultural = systems function, their relationships to environments, and how they might = be sustained or reimplemented as an alternative to conventional development= =20 models. Some production systems were part of a prehistoric context and = cannot be reactivated; others have proved sustainable into our time; = and=20 others, with adaptations, might provide alternatives to industrialized=20 agricultural. The symposium will, moreover, achieve a theoretical = integration of those different strands of research on Native American=20 ecologies, agricultural as well as others, into a meaningful whole that = cuts across study of the past, the present, and the future to engage=20 contemporary theorization of society, nature, space, and their intersection= in development issues.=20 As background information, this will be one of 70 symposia that has been = accepted for the Warsaw ICA. The ICA organizing committee has now=20 circulated the preliminary program and information on how to submit papers = to symposia organizers. If you are not already on the mailing list, = further information -- such as links to the ICA circulars in Spanish, = English, and=20 Portuguese -- is available at=20 <http://www.geog.psu.edu/~sluyter/research/ica.html> and will be periodical= ly updated. If you intend to participate, we will need an=20 abstract of 350 to 700 words in English, Spanish, or Portuguese by 1 = October 1999.=20 Andrew Sluyter; Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University,= =20 302 Walker Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Phone: (814) = 863-5732;=20 Fax: (814) 863-7943; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20 Alfred H. Siemens; Department of Geography, The University of British=20 Columbia, 217-1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1W5, Canada; Phone: = (604)=20 822-2663; Fax: (604) 822-6105; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20 ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
