PNASA 2015 Conference (Olympia)

Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Conference

Cultural and Ecological Restoration in the Pacific Northwest

April 23-25, 2015

South Puget Sound Community College (Olympia, Washington)

Submissions Due: February 9, 2015

Over the past two centuries, the Pacific Northwest has been a site of tremendous environmental and cultural predation as well as a site of efforts to preserve, protect, and restore the ecological, social, and cultural resources that have served as anchors for the diverse communities that comprise the region. Among other projects, American Indian, First Nations, and Alaska Native communities have labored to forestall language loss and maintain traditional subsistence practices; rural communities have organized to restore threatened watersheds and revive of old growth forests; public agencies and private landowners have collaborated to restore urban ecosystems and promote green space; and artists among other cultural producers have sought meaning in the cultural and ecological landscapes of our region. These commitments — each of them multicultural and multidisciplinary in their own ways — are worth contemplating in relation to one another, and the Pacific Northwest American Studies Association invites papers and panels addressing these themes as we prepare for our 2015 meeting in Olympia, Washington, hosted by South Puget Sound Community College.


Interested faculty and graduate students should email submissions (1-page proposal and short bio) to:

David Noon, PNASA President, at pnasapres@gmail.com