conference
CFP – Oxford Education Research Symposium, Due: Feb 24, 2017
The Oxford Education Research Symposium is a forum for presentation of papers and discourse by scholars who have a particular interest in the theory and practice of universal education. You are invited to present a paper on an aspect of education research, or you may wish to attend as an observer or panel member. If you wish to present a paper you will be requested to submit a brief abstract for review by the Programme Committee. Papers presented will be subsequently peer reviewed by external readers for possible inclusion in Symposium books or as sponsored journal articles.
Date: March 20 – 22, 2017
Location: Oxford University Club, Oxford, UK
Abstracts for the proposed papers are approved by the Programme Committee of the Symposium, and the list of suggested topics are available on the website.
Submission deadline: February 24, 2017
For more information, please visit: https://www.oxford-education-research-symposium.com
Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation, Pre-symposium and Symposium events – March 15-18, 2017.
Pre-Symposium Event: Landsdowne Lecture with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
March 15th 5:00 pm, First Peoples House, Ceremonial Hall
Hosted by the Department of Political Science
Freedom Sings: Land/Bodies/Resurgence
This talk will explore Indigenous resurgence and nationhood through story, song and video. Leanne will discuss resurgence as an ongoing intervention into the colonial project by sharing works from her recent album f(l)ight (RPM Records), her new book of short stories This Accident of Being Lost (House of Anansi) and her forthcoming academic work on the The Radical Resurgence Project (UMP Press). More information about Leanne Simpson.
Symposium: Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation March 15-18, 2017
- This symposium will bring together many prominent Indigenous scholars in the fields of Political Science, Law and Indigenous Governance to consider the long intellectual tradition of Indigenous resurgence within these fields while looking toward new directions in consideration of the challenges and possibilities produced in the era of reconciliation. The aim in hosting this event is to cultivate an environment for productive discussion of a central concern facing Indigenous resurgence: our relationships with creation (land, water, animals, ancestors) and how these relationships have been impacted by reconciliation politics.
Speakers: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Dian Million, Sheryl Lightfoot, Christine O’Bonsawin, Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard, Sarah Hunt, Aimee Craft, Audra Simpson, Hayden King, Nick Claxton, Hokulani Aikau, Daniel Heath Justice. This event will take place at the University of Victoria at the First Peoples House from March 15th to 18th 2017. No registration is required, and the event is free.
CFP – Gdo Akiiminaan Ganawendandaan (Taking Care of Our Land) Symposium. Due: February 22, 2017.
- The Anishinaabe Initiative Division and the Department of Geography and Geology at Algoma University will be holding the 2nd Bi-Annual Symposium on Gdo Akiiminaan Ganawendandaan (Taking Care of Our Land), on May 9-11 2017 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The purpose of this symposium is to explore, through research and best practices, the inclusion of cultural and traditional practices of land management, planning and use for Aboriginal communities in Northern Ontario. The theme for this year is Reconciliation.
The deadline for abstracts is set for midnight on February 22nd, 2017. For more information, please click on the link.
CFP – 18th Biennial Conference on Teachers and Teaching – ISATT 2017. Due: Dec 28, 2016
We invite candidates to contribute to the conference theme: “Teaching search and research”. The essence of this conference aims to capture the mutual interrelations between the academia and schools in order to combine discourses and align positions. The particular interest is to bring practice into theory and theory to practice. The ISATT 2017 encourage submissions that examine the diverse teaching contexts and the many changes occurring across education research and practice: from design to implementation.
Date: July 3-7, 2017
Location: University Of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
You are invited to submit your contributions in English in any of the following formats: oral presentations, posters, symposia, and workshops.
Submission deadline: December 28, 2016.
For more information, please visit: http://isatt2017.com
CFP – Investigating Our Practices – 20th Annual IOP Conference at UBC. Due: Feb 24
UBC is hosting the 20th Annual IOP Conference, where practicing teachers, university educators, graduate students and student teachers from different educational contexts (schools, universities and colleges) come together to share their questions, investigations and understandings about their practice.
Date: May 6, 2017
Location: Neville Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall, UBC
Proposals are invited in three formats: submit a proposal for an individual or group session, host a roundtable discussion, or prepare a poster session
Submission deadline: Friday, February 24
For more information, please visit: http://iop.educ.ubc.ca
SAGE Digest & Season’s Greetings
Dear SAGE Community,
The Office of Indigenous Education is accepting applications for the SAGE Provincial Coordinator, Graduate Academic Assistant. Please email indigenous.education@ubc.ca with any questions.
SAGE is such a wonderful community of scholars! I am truly grateful for the learning experiences, and opportunities to serve Indigenous grad students for the past two and a half years. As of September, I have become a part of the team at the First Nations House of Learning, as the Aboriginal Student and Community Development Officer. I hope to be a resource to Indigenous graduate students in this role, and to continue being an active member of SAGE while I finish my PhD. I invite all of you to drop by room 184 at the Longhouse to visit anytime – please come say hi!
Thanks and enjoy the SAGE Digest!
Aurelia Kaililani Kinslow
Provincial Coordinator (ex-officio, interim volunteer)
Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement (SAGE)
The SAGE blog is updated on an ongoing basis. If you have news, information and/or resources to share, please forward to grad.sage@ubc.ca.
Achievements
· Doctoral Defence – caroline lefebvre
Call for Papers
· Rising Up: Indigenous Knowledge and Research in Indigenous Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Manitoba. Due: Feb 3, 2017
· Indigenous Expressions of Culture in Storytelling, Drama, Theatre and Performance – Traditional and Contemporary Canadian and Polish Upper Silesian Perspectives. Due: Dec 31, 2016
· Activism and Justice: Indigenous Responses to Neoliberalism; 6th Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium Currents of Resistance, Due: Jan 13, 2017
Read more under Call for Proposals/Papers category
Course
· Course – Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education – Register by January 23https://wordpress.com/post/gradsage.com/3938
Events
· Upcoming SAGE events in 2017
· CTLT, Teaching Assistants Institute
· Graduate Pathways to Success: workshops + new graduate student orientation in January
· Museum of Anthropology: December 2016
Read more under Events category
Funding
· David Suzuki Fellowship program, Due: Feb 1, 2017
· Aboriginal Graduate Fellowships, Due: Feb 10, 2017
· Creating Humanities Communities Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities. Due: Feb 15, 2017
Read more under Funding category
Jobs
· FT Child-care worker, Due: Dec 18, 2016
· Department Chair, Arizona State University, American Indian Studies Program
· Tenure-Track Job Openings, UNLV English Department
· Indigenous Governance Program Manager, University of Arizona
· Assistant Professor of Native American History, University of North Carolina – Pembroke
· Wildlife Biologist, at Okanagan Nation Alliance
Read more under Jobs category
Resources
· UBC Single Mothers Support Group
CFP – Rising Up: Indigenous Knowledge and Research in Indigenous Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Manitoba. Due: Feb 3, 2017
Laura Forsythe, B.A., B Ed.
Native Studies Graduate Students Association
CFP – Indigenous Expressions of Culture in Storytelling, Drama, Theatre and Performance – Traditional and Contemporary Canadian and Polish Upper Silesian Perspectives. Due: Dec 31, 2016
A Conference Organized by the University of Silesia, Poland and the University of the Fraser Valley, Canada
April 26-28, 2017, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec campus
Second Call for Proposals
Indigenous Expressions of Culture in Storytelling, Drama, Theatre and Performance –Traditional and Contemporary Canadian and Polish Upper Silesian Perspectives.
Confirmed Speaker: Tomson Highway (Cree)
“Storytelling is at the core of decolonizing, because it is a process of remembering, visioning and creating a just reality […] [it] becomes a lens through which we can envision our way out of cognitive imperialism” (Simpson 89)
The first of the intended series of conferences dedicated to the exploration of the complexity of Indigenous cultures of North America and minor cultures of Eastern/Central Europe – is a joint project of the Department of English and Indigenous Affairs Office, University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), Canada, and the Canadian Studies Centre, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Theatrum Research Group and the Centre for the Study of Minor Cultures at the University of Silesia (US), Poland. As Canadian and Polish scholars and educators working in the fields of Indigenous, minor, and transcultural literary and cultural studies, we propose that the first conference will explore the traditional and contemporary expressions of culture in Indigenous America, specifically Canada, and in the Eastern/Central European territory of Upper Silesia, specifically Poland, with a primary focus on the acts of resistance, survival and celebration of culture as enacted in storytelling, drama, theatre and performance (DTP). Performance is interpreted broadly including traditional and contemporary music and dance as well as festival events understood as modes of cultural storytelling. We envision the event as a meeting of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars representing a variety of disciplines and Indigenous Canadian and Upper Silesian storytellers, writers, artists, performers, educators and community members.
Our aim is to explore the richness of Indigenous expressions of culture in storytelling and DPT in Canada and Upper Silesia. We believe that the transcultural dialogue between scholars, artists and educators of marginalized cultures will be an enriching learning experience for all, but especially for Upper Silesians, colonized by diverse powers throughout history, whose most recent struggle for recognition, including the processes of cultural and linguistic revitalization, can benefit from such transcultural encounters.
The exploration of Canadian scholarship on Indigenous literatures and cultures, and especially the work of Indigenous playwrights, artists, performers, scholars/critics and educators is of great interest to the critics of minor/ Indigenous literatures and cultures in Europe. We believe that in spite of many differences between Indigenous cultures of America and minor cultures of Eastern/Central Europe, critical insights and analytical tools offered by Indigenous research methodologies, epistemologies and pedagogical theories can provide instructive, alternative ways of approaching the under-studied and under-theorized works of European minor/Indigenous writers, performers and artists. A panel discussion by specialists in this area will explore diverse perspectives on these complex issues.
Prospective participants are invited to submit proposals for traditional and non-traditional presentations that broadly address the theme of the conference. Submissions from graduate and postgraduate students at any stage of their research are welcome. The following list of topics should be regarded as neither exhaustive nor prescriptive:
- Re-reading and re-writing of history in DTP
- Poetics, aesthetics and politics of identity construction in DTP
- Storytelling, drama, theatre and performance as tools of decolonization and pedagogy
- Storytelling as a repository and archive of Indigenous knowledge
- Interrogating the concept of indigeneity: theorizing indigenous and minor cultures perspectives
- Indigeneity of Upper Silesia
- Transindigeneity and a dialogue of cultures
- Indigenous ontology, epistemology, axiology, and methodology and their translation into storytelling and DTP
- Use of oral traditions, stories, culture and history to promote activism
- Inventing home through stories and performance: a decolonizing approach to DTP
- Performing history and re-visioning of community memories DTP
- The role of the storytelling and DTP in the cultural revival of Canadian Indigenous cultures
- The role of the storytelling and DTP in the cultural revival of Upper Silesian culture and language
- (De)Construction of cultural identity in storytelling and DTP
- Traditional knowledge and values in storytelling and DTP
- Indigenous/ local knowledge and traditional and contemporary expressions of culture
- Performance of identity and language recovery and revitalization
- Language recovery and revitalization and identity construction
- Methodological practices of Native Performance Culture (NPC) as a possible model for the Upper Silesian expressions of culture
- Diversity of the traditional Indigenous forms of cultural expression in the contemporary Canadian Indigenous and Upper Silesian DTP
- Theories of affect and the enactment of Indigenous cultures in storytelling and DTP
- Traditional knowledge versus folklore and its performance
- Folklore and theatre
- The role of folklore in preserving Indigenous and minor cultures
- The condition of ritual in theatre – Canadian Indigenous and Slavic perspectives
- Contemporary storytelling methods in DTP
- The poetics of place and aesthetic values
- Poetic auto-creation and mythologizing of Indigenous cultures and landscapes
- Indigenous values and cosmologies and their translation into DTP
- Heritage tourism and storytelling
- Cultural festivals and their role in preserving and inventing cultures
With a comparative project in mind, we are initiating new avenues of research related to the marginalized local/ indigenous/minor cultures of Eastern/Central Europe studied in the context of Indigenous cultures of North America. We hope this pioneering venture in will lead to a greater understanding of the Indigenous and minor cultures functioning within major dominant national narratives of Canada and Poland.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
University of Silesia: University of the Fraser Valley
Eugenia Sojka
Aneta Głowacka Michelle LaFlamme
Sabina Sweta Sen Shirley Swelchalot Shxwha:yathel Hardman
Rafał Madeja
Deadline for abstracts: December 31st 2016 ;
Notification of acceptance: January 6th 2017
Please send proposals to: indigenoustheatre2017poland@gmail.com
Proposal submission address:
(i) Individual proposals should be 250-300 words.
(ii) For panels, in English, or Polish, please send the title of the panel and a 250-word presentation explaining the overall focus together with a 250-300 word abstract for each participant.
(iii) Please attach a short bio to your conference paper proposal.
All files should be clearly marked with the applicants’ name. Please make sure the files are in the PDF format.
Registration fee: covering welcome reception, all conference materials, coffee breaks, and conference banquet.
- $ 250 US – full time faculty
- $125 US – students and part-time faculty
Publication: selected papers based on the conference presentations will be published in a refereed monograph.
The conference website will be opened shortly.
CFP – Curriculum Matters: Race, Place, and Belonging “South” of the Border, Due: Dec 11, 2017
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CURRICULUM STUDIES ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Monday, April 24 – Thursday, April 27, 2017
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: AAACS 2017
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Priority Deadline: Sunday, December 11, 2016
Cut-Off for Submissions: Sunday, January 8, 2017
Curriculum Matters: Race, Place, and Belonging “South” of the Border
Curriculum matters. Race matters. Place matters. Epistemologies matter. And matter also matters of indigeneity, immigration and epistemicide—of the South, at the borders, and beyond. Through this year’s conference theme—inspired, too, by the place of our convening and work of our colleagues (t)here; we invite participants to inquire, critique, ponder, dream, converse and create together through and from attention to these matters. Herein, we aim to not only continue from last year conversations regarding our ethical, and historical, engagements (AAACS 2016), but also to further those of our affiliate and sister organizations respecting the current tasks of the curriculum theorist (IAACS 2015), where curriculum theory and its labor, in fact, stand in the present moment (Bergamo 2016)—as well as in those to come; and demands to “colour” curriculum, interrogating places therein of power, privilege and supremacy (C&P 2016). We, too, seek responsiveness to/in a contemporary scene wherein much is contested, conflicted, complexified, and produced as nonexistent among us, particularly perhaps in the U.S./”America”, as pertains to race, place, indigeneity, immigration and epistemology—especially concerning difference, equity, solidarity and social and cognitive justice; and possibly no more so than in the “othered” South.
For example, while restorations of particular nations of the Global North have been acknowledged and taken up—and this, via the curriculum—in Canada, which necessarily involves listening to and learning from indigenous knowledges (the fruit of which was so beautifully shared at IAACS 2015), as well as in Australia (the place of our upcoming IAACS 2018 convening); such efforts are virtually nonexistent in the US, where one could argue indigeneity is largely still rendered invisible and thus inarticulable. And we suffer still in this context without any redress—with even much repressive regress—respecting generations of racial violence, suffering and oppression. Such questions too might be brought to bear at the borders, as it were, liminal spaces and fluid if not fractured places wherein epistemologies of the South, and of language and of citizenship, are deeply implicated, and such also with respect to education, curriculum and pedagogy.
We welcome, of course, as always, proposals on any current curriculum studies scholarship, and encourage provocative, stimulating and surprising conference formats; critical and creative conversations among us that may initiate healing and transformation, and illumine new paths and possibilities for us from within our midst.
Proposals are being accepted through
AAACS 2017 Proposal Guide
To submit your proposal, please follow the link: https://goo.gl/forms/EPUE2pKTZstyHObh1
For questions/inquiry regarding the conference and/or call for proposals, please email conference and program committee email at: AAACScallforproposals@gmail.com
Your proposal automatically registers you as a member of AAACS—there are presently no dues. With membership in AAACS (www.aaacs.org) comes membership in IAACS (The International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies).