2016 PNASA Annual Meeting CFP

Greetings! We have extended the submission deadline for this year's meeting!

BUILDING SPACES, PLACES, AND PUBLICS
 Pacific Northwest American Studies Association April 7-9, 2016

As educators, the spaces, places, and publics we create are often — and in many cases ought to be — linked to the unique human and ecological landscapes where we perform our work. In the Pacific Northwest, for example, our colleges and universities are situated within and near lands that have deep ties to American Indian communities, often creating relationships that manifest in much of the teaching we do and the academic programs we build. As we prepare for our 2016 meeting, the Pacific Northwest American Studies Association invites papers and panels addressing the ways that American Studies, American Indian Studies, and affiliated fields and disciplines can contribute to indigenizing our teaching and research such that we honor our obligations to the places in which we live, educate, and create. This year’s meeting will be held April 7-9, hosted by Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. The conference will feature keynote speakers Amy Lonetree, historian at the University of California-Santa Cruz, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Trahant.

The conference theme is intended as a prompt for individual papers and related panels. However, we enthusiastically welcome proposals on all topics related to American Studies, from all disciplinary and theoretical approaches. Abstracts should be sent to David Noon at pnasapres@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions is February 19.