Pathways 2006: Cultural Intersections in Native North America
April 7-9, 2006
The Yale Group for the Study of Native America is pleased to announce an upcoming conference- Pathways 2006: Cultural Intersections in Native North America to be held April 7-9, 2006 in New Haven, CT. The goals of this conference are: to provide a comfortable forum for graduate students working at the intersection of American Indian or Alaska Native Studies and other Ethnic and Area Studies, such as African American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Latin American Studies, to share their work, and to foster student-to-student and student-to-professional relationships by encouraging networking and community-building for those working across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Areas of study will include but are not limited to: History, Literature, Anthropology, Law and Policy, and the Arts. Graduate students presenters from the U.S. and Canada will share their work in a series of plenary panels designed to stimulate conversation and debate. Respected faculty from a variety of institutions will chair the panels and deliver brief comments.
We are delighted to announce that Professor Philip J. Deloria will deliver the keynote address. Professor Deloria is the Director of the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan and also teaches in the Department of History. In addition to co-editing The Blackwell Companion to American Indian History (Cambridge: Blackwell, 2002) with Neal Salisbury, he is also the author of Indians in Unexpected Places (University Press of Kansas, 2004) and Playing Indian (Yale University Press, 1998). Professor Deloria received his Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale in 1994.
The conference is free and open to the public, but we request that you take a moment to register.
Pathways 2006 is sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the American Studies Program.