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Conference Announcement "White-Indian Relations: Moving into the 21st Century" International and Interdisciplinary Symposium Leuphana University Lüneburg Lüneburg (Germany) 14-17 May 2009 __________________________________________________ The international and interdisciplinary symposium entitled "White-Indian Relations: Moving into the 21st Century" will be held at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, in Lüneburg, Germany, from May 14-17, 2009. This symposium will serve as a discourse with and not only about Native Americans and First Nations as well as look at native literature, culture, and contemporary history from an interdisciplinary angle, concentrating on: - Politics - New Frontiers: Indian-White Relations in the Political, Economic, and Ecological Realm - Ethnology - Issues dealing with Sacred Remains from Archaeological Sites and Ritual Artefacts in Museums - Humanities - Resistance and Cooperation in Contemporary Literature, Film, and the Arts - Educational Systems - The Role and Function of Native Educational Systems: Education and Vocation as Tools of Post-Colonial Power The lion's share of the published research in the field of Native American and First Nation Studies has almost exclusively focused on the past. Topics widely discussed include: the one-sided annihilation of Natives beginning with a serious misapprehension of Columbus over 500 years ago, the ensuing racism and oppression of Natives in its various forms, stereotyping, and the mutual distrust of Natives and Whites. The WIR Symposium, however, hopes to go beyond that, to fill the gaps of less discussed areas of research and to preview future possibilities and possible pitfalls of living together. Thus, the major aim of this gathering of North American and European university researchers, invited speakers, authors, guests, and university students is to present, evaluate, and analyze contemporary White-Indian relations, as well as to characterize and then reflect together on the contemporary post-colonial discourse on the aforementioned constellations of cultural, political, and literary issues. The findings of the symposium will be published in a volume of conference proceedings. Organization Committee: Maryann Henck, M.A. PD. Dr. Maria Moss Dr. Sabrina Völz Contact: Dr. Sabrina Völz Leuphana University Lüneburg Scharnhorststraße 1 Building 5 Room 135 D-21335 Lüneburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0)4131 677-2664 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.leuphana.de/services/fsz/sprachen-niveaus/englisch/wir09.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
