Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:06:18 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Indigenous Rights, Dialogy and Relations to National States


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CALL FOR PAPERS
to the 51st Congreso Internacional de Americanistas
14 - 18 de julho de 2003, Santiago del Chile, Universidade de Chile
Tema, "Re-thinking the Americas at the threshold of the 21st century"


Symposium
Coordinacion/Convenors:  Adolfo Joao da Silva, University of St. Andrews,
Scotland.  email:  joaodasilva99-AT-yahoo.com.  Patricia Paul, JD, Northwest
Indian College, USA.  email:  patriciapauljd-AT-msn.com

Simposia:  "Indigenous Rights, Dialogy and Relations to National States"

The beginning of the third millenium finds Indigenous peoples of the
Americas in a radically different situation from where they found
themselves a mere few decades before.  One has only to remember how, not
more than thirty or forty years ago, Indian voices were taken only as
laments of a facing reality, inexorably destined to vanish, to realize
how their contemporary situation has changed.

Presently, we witness the emergence of their voices imposing themselves
upon national states as a legitimate state in a relation that is forcibly
shaped as an inter-ethnic dialogue.  Throughout the continent Indigenous
peoples have tried, with different degrees of success, to establish some
measure of autonomy and self-determination in relation to the national
they find themselves encompassed by.  An underlying motif seems to obtain
in all, or most of these attempts:  the establishments of a dialogial
relation with national states, in which there can be enough horizontality
to allow Indigenous peoples to actively control their own destinies.

Indigenous lands are demarcated, from the polar circle to Amazonia; as
health and education became increasingly under control of Indigenous
peoples themselves; an Indian-based guerilla army marches peacefully over
a country's capital to claim special rights as Indians, while an
Indigenous people elsewhere decides to create theirr own country out of
despair for not having their rights as Indians acknowledged by the
national state.

A language of Indigenous rights gains force as the linguistic medium par
excellence of multiple dialogues with national states.  All this deeply
impacts upon the social sciences and humanistic disciplines concerned
with the understanding of Indigenous peoples, amounting to a veritable
"subjects' rebellion".  The change in the quality and character of the
relation between Indigenous peoples and national states brings forthe the
need for a drastic re-shaping of the theoretical apparatus and ways of
understanding of such disciplines.  This is also valid for concepts such
as autonomy and self-determination, whose meaning is now an open arrena
for debate; as well as, the concepts of dialogue and dialogy themselves,
which leaves the philosophical areana to become incarnated into issues
that touch the everyday lives of Indigenous peoples.  This simposium
welcomes works from professionals of different disciplines on these
issues.

Participation categories and registration fees:
Until 31 December 2002 -- Participants USD 160.  Accompanying persons 70
Until 31 May 2003 Participants USD 200, Accompanying persons 80
>From 1 June 2003 Participants USD 230, Accompanying persons 90

Students:  Those who as of July 14, 2003, are under 30 years of age may
be considered as undergraduate and graduate students.  To be admitted as
a student one must attach to the registration form a letter from the
educational institution that verifies student status for the year 2003,
and a photocopy of the respective passport or identity card page with
birthdate.  Students will have a 50% reduction of registration fees
whether or not they present a paper.

About Papers:  Paper proposals should go directly to the coordinators of
symposia for their approval and inclusion in the program of the symposium
and of the Congress.  The report should be presented in one of the three
suggested languages (Spanish, English, French, Portuguese).  An abstract
of 200 words is required.  The time dedicated to a report (presentation
and discussion) should not exceed, in total, 30 minutes.




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