Title: Call for Applications: HUNAP/Peabody Museum Summer Internship
Deadline: Extended, March 15, 2011
Program Dates: Starts May 31, 8 Weeks.
Email: pmresrch@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.hunap.harvard.edu/academics/research

Available to both Undergraduates & Graduates

PMAE and HUNAP invite applications for summer 2011 internships at the Peabody Museum for Harvard undergraduate and graduate students (or recent 2011 graduates). Applications from outside Harvard University also may be considered. The internships enable students to gain experience in museum activities such as curatorial research, collections management, conservation, archives, museum education, public programming, and/or publications, with a preference for North American projects. Interns will be matched with available projects based on their interests expressed in the application. Interns work under the supervision of a museum staff mentor. The internships are for 8 weeks (20 hours/week) beginning on Tuesday, May 31. A stipend is provided by HUNAP.

A downloadable application is available on the website.

Title: 2011 CCV Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program Church Lab, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Deadline for application: April 29, 2011
Dates of program: June 6, 2011

Applicable Field/Major: Biology/Computer Science The Church Lab is offering paid, 10-week summer undergraduate research internships for students interested in a research career in genome sciences. Research Interns will participate in a variety of projects with the Center for Causal Consequences Variation (CCV), a Center for Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) focused on development of cutting edge methods for genomics that hold promise for significantly advancing biological and medical research. CCV is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Students will gain a broader knowledge of genomics and bioinformatics and experience outstanding cutting edge scientific research with the opportunity to:

Work closely with graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and scientists Work on a supervised independent project Attend lab meetings, read and discuss recent literature related to their project Attend seminars given by scientists and researchers from Harvard, MIT and the Broad Institute Present research to other students, scientists, and mentors.

Internships will begin on June 6, 2011. Undergraduate interns will receive a $4,000 stipend and assistance in securing housing.

Please visit the website at: http://ccv.med.harvard.edu/diversity_summer_internships.htm or contact Dr. Lee Bitsoi, Program Director, at lbitsoi@genetics.med.harvard.edu for additional information.

Title: New England American Studies Association 2011 Conference
Deadline for call: April 8th, 2011
Conference Dates: November 4-6, 2011
Location: Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Phone: (978) 665-4805
Email: neasaconference11@gmail.com
Website: www.neasa.org

American Mythologies: Creating, Recreating, and Resisting National Narratives

Myths and narratives are constructed, reconstructed, and resisted not only through written texts but in every form of media and within every kind of community. As a result, we invite proposals and panels from academic disciplines including American Studies, history, literature, ethnic studies, native studies, women’s and gender studies, working class studies, folklore studies, film, music, the visual arts, languages, archaeology, anthropology, political science, and law, as well as from artists, public historians, architects, activists, archivists, curators, teachers, policy makers, and others.

Proposals should include a one page abstract and title, as well as the author’s name, address (including email), and institutional or professional affiliation. For panel proposals please include contact information for all participants, as well as a brief (no more than two page) description of the session topic and format. Submit proposals by April 8th, 2011 to neasaconference11@gmail.com. Proposal or queries may also be sent to:

Ben Railton, NEASA President
Fitchburg State University, English Department
Fitchburg, MA 01420
(978) 665-4805
brailton@fitchburgstate.edu

For more information about the conference and NEASA, including an extended Call for Papers, please visit www.neasa.org.

Title: International Conference on Indigenous Education, Health, and Culture
Deadline for call: April 8th, 2011
Conference Dates: Aug. 20-24, 2011
Location: Hualien, City, Taiwan
Phone: (978) 665-4805

This will be the seventh conference on International Indigenous Issues hosted and/or co-hosted by the First Nations University of Canada. This event will include a field trip to an Aboriginal village in the mountains of central Taiwan to take part in the annual Harvest Festival where you will experience Taiwan Aboriginal cultural performances, Aboriginal cuisine, and Aboriginal life-ways. Please pass on this Call for Abstracts to those who may be interested.

Sponsored by Tzu Chi University . Co-sponsored by First Nations University of Canada

This conference will draw together international scholars to present academic papers or posters on issues in Indigenous health, education and culture to include Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous Medicine. Twenty minutes will be allocated for each presentation. Please note that if papers are presented in a language other than English, an English version must be presented by Power Point projection.

Please submit the registration form below by return email by May 31, 2011 with title and abstract in Word, Times New Roman 12 font (English). For those who wish to have their papers published in the conference proceedings, full text of papers to be submitted by August 31, 2011 in the same format.

Note: The conference will include a field trip August 20-21 to an Aboriginal village to take part in the traditional Aboriginal Harvest Festival. Formal presentations will be from August 22 through August 24.

Conference Fees: Delegate registration fee: $200.00 USD. Students, Elders and retiree registration are free. Conference fees to be paid in cash at time of registration.

Note: All participants are responsible for their own transportation, accommodation, breakfast, and evening meals.

Title: Art: Issue 6 'The Resurgence of Indigenous Women's Knowledge and Resistance in Relation to Land and Territoriality: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives'
Deadline for call: June 15th, 2011
Website: http://www.yorku.ca/intent/submissions.html

This guest-edited issue of Intensions examines the transformative effects of dissent, resistance, mobilization and social change after five centuries of Indigenous political engagement and corporeal interaction with the Empire. We welcome submissions that explore how Indigenous women engage with territory, relate to land and its gifts as well as submissions that interrogate the manifestations of colonial structures, policies, and controls over territory in all settings inclusive of the urban environment.

Scholar Sandy Grande reflected critically on "inherent tensions between the feminist and indigenous political projects" that arise from the Conventional focus of 'whitestream' feminism on individual rights and gender equality in the marketplace (Grande 2004, 150-151). As Grande argues, the individualism of this perspective lacks crucial insight into the multigenerational effects of territorial and cultural dispossession on indigenous women and their families and communities. If, as Dian Million determined Euro-Canadian and American feminism "successfully reordered the political significance of familial 'privacy'" . . . and further determined that "private" acts were Political these campaigns did not "immediately empower Native women." However, the conception of private as political has been effectively reframed by Indigenous women who use "strategies and languages that located them within the heart of their own experiences" (Million, AIQ June 2008, 269).

This issue of Intensions anticipates innovative and nuanced insights regarding past and present resistance, activism and revitalization of Indigenous women's relations to territory. The editors seek a diverse range of interdisciplinary and transnational submissions including fiction, poetry, storytelling, theatre, historical and cultural critical analysis, oral interviews, and visual art-including digital projects (audio, video, animation, web-based), body work, spoken word, performance, and site-specific installation.

Guest co-editors: Wanda Nanibush, Leanne Simpson, Carol Williams

Please send copies of submissions to all three editors:

Leanne Simpson (leannesimpson@sympatico.ca),
Carol Williams (carolwilliams@trentu.ca), and
Wanda Nanibush (wnanibush@gmail.com).

Style and submission guidelines can be accessed and downloaded at http://www.yorku.ca/intent/submissions.html

Title: New England American Studies Association 2011 Conference
Deadline for call: April 8th, 2011
Conference Dates: November 4-6, 2011
Location: Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Phone: (978) 665-4805
Email: neasaconference11@gmail.com
Website: www.neasa.org

American Mythologies: Creating, Recreating, and Resisting National Narratives

Myths and narratives are constructed, reconstructed, and resisted not only through written texts but in every form of media and within every kind of community. As a result, we invite proposals and panels from academic disciplines including American Studies, history, literature, ethnic studies, native studies, women’s and gender studies, working class studies, folklore studies, film, music, the visual arts, languages, archaeology, anthropology, political science, and law, as well as from artists, public historians, architects, activists, archivists, curators, teachers, policy makers, and others.

Proposals should include a one page abstract and title, as well as the author’s name, address (including email), and institutional or professional affiliation. For panel proposals please include contact information for all participants, as well as a brief (no more than two page) description of the session topic and format. Submit proposals by April 8th, 2011 to neasaconference11@gmail.com. Proposal or queries may also be sent to:

Ben Railton, NEASA President
Fitchburg State University, English Department
Fitchburg, MA 01420
(978) 665-4805
brailton@fitchburgstate.edu

For more information about the conference and NEASA, including an extended Call for Papers, please visit www.neasa.org.

Title: International Conference on Indigenous Education, Health, and Culture
Deadline for call: April 8th, 2011
Conference Dates: Aug. 20-24, 2011
Location: Hualien, City, Taiwan
Phone: (978) 665-4805

This will be the seventh conference on International Indigenous Issues hosted and/or co-hosted by the First Nations University of Canada. This event will include a field trip to an Aboriginal village in the mountains of central Taiwan to take part in the annual Harvest Festival where you will experience Taiwan Aboriginal cultural performances, Aboriginal cuisine, and Aboriginal life-ways. Please pass on this Call for Abstracts to those who may be interested.

Sponsored by Tzu Chi University . Co-sponsored by First Nations University of Canada

This conference will draw together international scholars to present academic papers or posters on issues in Indigenous health, education and culture to include Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous Medicine. Twenty minutes will be allocated for each presentation. Please note that if papers are presented in a language other than English, an English version must be presented by Power Point projection.

Please submit the registration form below by return email by May 31, 2011 with title and abstract in Word, Times New Roman 12 font (English). For those who wish to have their papers published in the conference proceedings, full text of papers to be submitted by August 31, 2011 in the same format.

Note: The conference will include a field trip August 20-21 to an Aboriginal village to take part in the traditional Aboriginal Harvest Festival. Formal presentations will be from August 22 through August 24.

Conference Fees: Delegate registration fee: $200.00 USD. Students, Elders and retiree registration are free. Conference fees to be paid in cash at time of registration.

Note: All participants are responsible for their own transportation, accommodation, breakfast, and evening meals.

Title: The Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies: Graduate Student Conference
Conference Dates: July 29-30, 2011
Location: The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
Call for paper deadline: June 1, 2011.
Website: http://www.newberry.org/mcnickle/darcyhome.html

Graduate students from NCAIS member institutions are invited to present papers in any academic field relating to American Indian and Indigenous Studies. We encourage the submission of proposals for papers that examine a wide variety of subjects relating to American Indian and Indigenous history and culture broadly conceived.

The conference will take place in conjunction with the NCAIS summer institute on July 29-30, 2011. NCAIS faculty liaisons in attendance have agreed to provide feedback on individual presentations relevant to their expertise. First-time presenters are encouraged.

To propose a paper, please send up to one-page proposal, a statement explaining the relationship of the paper to your other work, and a brief C.V. to mcnickle@newberry.org. The deadline for submission is June 1, 2011

If you are interested in proposing a paper and have questions, please contact conference coordinator and Director of the McNickle Center, Dr. Scott Manning Stevens at stevenss@newberry.org.

NCAIS is unable to provide funds for travel or lodging, but can assist in locating discounted accommodations. If you would like to receive announcements and updates about NCAIS programs or to subscribe to the NCAIS mailing list, send an email request to mcnickle@newberry.org or call McNickle Center at (312) 255-3564.

Title: Seventh Annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference
Conference Dates: April 7-8, 2011
Location: University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Contact: Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs
Phone: 910-521-6266
Email: mary.jacobs@uncp.edu

Title: World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference: Education (WIPCE)
Conference Date: August 14-18, 2011.
Conference Location: Cusco, Peru
Email: lsuewarner@yahoo.com
Website: www.wipce2011.net

Representatives of the 1996 co-hosts for the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference: Education (WIPCE) invite your participation in 2011. WIPCE PERU 2011’s main theme is “Living our Indigenous Roots.” The conference will be held in Cusco, Peru beginning August 14 thru August 18, 2011. Please provide a 250-word abstract indicating the appropriate SubTheme by January 1, 2011. All abstracts will be peer reviewed and confirmations will be issued by February 15, 2011.

Specific categories include the following subthemes:

A. Indigenous Education for Future Generations: A strategy to preserve our indigenous languages, cultures, sciences, arts and philosophies, cases where indigenous education is recognized and enforced by national policies;

B. Living Indigenous Languages: As cultural empowerment and awakening through curricula development, on-line course, teaching and learning methodologies, practices and techniques by age brackets, bilingual and intercultural education; and,

C. Indigenous Knowledge for Common Well-Being: as ways of knowing and as contributions to the world, as well as a complement to western sciences and to the academia, recognition of oral traditions as transmission of knowledge.

Title: 28thAnnual Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education
Deadline: Please see website
Date(s): February 25-26, 2011
Location: Teachers College, Columbia University
Email: roundtable@tc.columbia.edu
Phone: 212-678-4111
Website: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/roundtable/?Id=Home&Info=Home

Theme: “Privileging Indigenous Voices: Hearing the Wisdom of Generations”

The Winter Roundtable is the longest running continuing professional education program in the United States devoted solely to cultural issues in psychology and education. The Winter Roundtable will continue its tradition of bringing together scholars, practitioners, researchers, social change agents and students interested in the intersections between race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation, and religious affiliation in psychology and education. The theme of the 2011 conference, "Privileging Indigenous Voices: Hearing the Wisdom of Generations" underscores the Roundtable's commitment to recognizing the multiple and complex effects of culture and social location in psychological and educational matters.

The Winter Roundtable's legacy in honoring significant and promising research, practice, and training innovations in cultural psychology and education will be continued in the 2011 conference, with the inclusion of five highlighted conference features: The presentation of the 8th Annual Social Justice Action Award, the presentation of the 21st Annual Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship in Psychology and Education, the Student Scholarship Program, and Pathways to Publication, Pathways to Practice.

Title: 5thAnuual National Conference for Media Reform
Date(s): April 8-10, 2011
Location: Boston, MA
Website: http://conference.freepress.net/

We are thrilled to announce that registration is open for the fifth ever National Conference for Media Reform!

From April 8-10, 2011, activists, media makers, educators, journalists, policymakers and people from across the country will gather in Boston to change the media and change the world.

The National Conference for Media Reform brings together thousands of people devoted to better media and a better democracy. For three days, conference attendees will debate today’s most pressing media policy issues. We’ll discuss the future of the Internet, spotlight innovative approaches to journalism, and examine strategies for building stronger independent media.

Too often, we treat the media as something that just happens to us, something we can’t change. That’s wrong. The media we have, good and bad, are the direct result of policies and politics. And those policies — and who’s in the room when they’re being made — will decide not just the quality of our media but the future of our planet.

Please visit our website (listed above) for more information on the program, sponsorship opportunities, and our work exchange program.

Title: 12th Annual Native American Literature Symposium (NALS)
Date(s): March 17-19, 2011
Location: Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Albuquerque (owned by the Isleta Pueblo), Albuquerque, New Mexico
Contact: Dr. Gwen Westerman, Program Director, Native American Literature Symposium
Phone: 507-389-2117
Email: gwen.westerman@mnsu.edu
Website: http://www.mnsu.edu/nativelit/index.html

The NALS is organized by an independent group of indigenous scholars committed
to making a place where Native voices can be heard. Since 2002, we have brought together some of the most influential voices in Native America to share our stories --in art, prose, poetry, film, religion, history, politics, music, philosophy, and science--from our worldview.

Title: National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) for the 29th Annual "Protecting Our Children" National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in Anchorage
Date(s): April 17-20, 2011
Location: Alaska
Contact: Laurie Evans
Phone: (503) 222-4044, extension 124.
Email: gwen.westerman@mnsu.edu
Website: www.nicwa.org/conference

Registration for the conference is now open, and there was never a better time to plan for your attendance of this event. NICWA is pleased to offer an early-bird rate of $395, which is valid through March 25, 2011. In addition, the Hilton Anchorage is offering a special conference rate of $99 a night (+tax) for conference attendees valid through March 17, 2011.

As always, please visit www.nicwa.org/conference for the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the 29th Annual "Protecting Our Children" Conference. Information can also be obtained by e-mailing Event Manager Laurie Evans at laurie@nicwa.org or by calling (503) 222-4044, extension 124.

Title: The Udall Scholarship Program
Deadline: March 2, 2011
Phone: 520-901-8500
Website: www.udall.gov

The Udall Scholarship program awards $5,000 merit-based scholarships for college sophomores and juniors seeking a career in tribal health, tribal public policy or the environment. Scholars participate in a five-day orientation in Tucson, AZ, to learn more about tribal and environmental issues through discussion with experts, their peers, and members of the Udall family. Applications must be submitted through a Udall Faculty Representative at the student’s college or university. More information about requirements for applying can be found on the Udall website.

Title: Scholarships for Study Abroad in Turkey for Minority Students
Deadline: Rolling
Contact: Zeynep Guven, Project Manager
Phone: 978-318-0047 (Boston Office); 202-370-1399 (Washington DC Office)
Email: info@tc-american.org
Website: www.tc-america.org

The Study Abroad in Turkey Scholarships for Minority Students is funded by the Turkish Coalition of America, whose goal is to increase the number of minority students studying abroad while also fostering a greater understanding in Turkey about diversity in America. They sponsor up to 100 scholarships per year for American minority undergraduate and graduate students to study abroad in Turkey. Students must have been accepted for study to a university in Turkey or in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Scholarships range from $500- $2000 and are to go towards the cost of studying abroad. There are also scholarships exclusively for Native American students who choose to study abroad at Istanbul Technical University.

Title: Opportunities for Grant Funding, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
Contact: Reuben Tomás Roqueñi, Program Director, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
Phone: 360-718-7057
Email: reuben@nativeartsandcultures.org
Website: www.nativeartsandcultures.org

It is the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s (NACF) mission to provide financial support to artists and organizations to help our Native cultures flourish. NACF recently awarded its first grants to 26 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian artists and organizations. To learn more about the NACF and to find out more about all of the grants awarded across the United States, visit their website (listed above).

Title: AIGC BIE – Loan for Service program
Website: www.aigcs.org

• Be an enrolled member of a United States federally-recognized American Indian tribe or Alaska Native group; or possess ¼ degree federally-recognized Indian blood;
• Have a 3.0 GPA; and
• Be pursuing a masters, doctorate, or professional (i.e., law, medical and dentistry) degree as a full time student at an accredited graduate or professional school in the United States.

Please pass on to family, friends or other people who may be interested.

Title: Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, University of Pittsburgh
Deadline: Rolling
Contact: Mollie Bandy, Grants Administrator
Phone: 412-648-9088
Email: bandymb@upmc.edu
Website: www.wpic.pitt.edu/behavioralmedicine

One- to three-year mentor-based program at the University of Pittsburgh with opportunities for formal didactic work in:

• sychophysiology
• cardiovascular disease/pathophysiology
• principles of behavior and behavior change
• research methods and statistics
• ethics and academic survival skills

Title: AIGC Fellowship
Deadline: June 1, 2011
Website: www.aigcs.org

AIGC Fellowship program requirements:

• Pursuing a master, doctoral or professional degree as a full-time student at an accredited graduate school in the United States and;
• Able to demonstrate financial need and;
• An enrolled member of a U.S. Federally recognized American Indian tribe or Alaska Native group, or possess one fourth (1/4) degree U.S. federally recognized Indian blood.

You do not have to be admitted into a graduate degree program at the time of application.

Title: Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, University of Pittsburgh
Deadline: Rolling
Contact: Mollie Bandy, Grants Administrator
Phone: 412-648-9088
Email: bandymb@upmc.edu
Website: www.wpic.pitt.edu/behavioralmedicine

One- to three-year mentor-based program at the University of Pittsburgh with opportunities for formal didactic work in:

• psychophysiology
• cardiovascular disease/pathophysiology
• principles of behavior and behavior change
• research methods and statistics
• ethics and academic survival skills

Title: HUNAP POWWOW
Date(s): April 30, 2011
Location: Harvard University, Radcliff Lawn
Contact: Jason Packineau, HUNAP Community Coordinator

The 16th annual Harvard University Powwow will be held at Radcliff Lawn on Saturday, April 30, 2011, Grand Entry, 1pm.

This event is free and open to the public.

Dancers: Dinner and day money will be provided for all registered dancers.
Vendors: As part of Harvard’s Art First Festival, the Harvard Powwow attracts hundreds of participants from New Hampshire, Connecticut, and New York, as well as from our local cities and towns.

The powwow vendor registration form is now available on the HUNAP website: www.hunap.harvard.edu

All vendor applications must be postmarked by March 16th, 2011. Our vendor fee this year will be $50.00. Please note: No on-site registration is allowed.