The American Indian Studies Graduate Student Consortium (AISGSC) is dedicated to the enhancement of graduate level training and education. The AISGSC is currently housed at Michigan State University. It is coordinated by graduate students from various universities, and supervised by university faculty. For more information, please visit the American Indian Studies Consortium.
The website is the focal point of an expanded consortium, built within the framework established by the Arts and Letters Deans of the CIC (a consortium of Big Ten Universities and the University of Chicago), but which is now open to all universities and colleges interested in training graduate students in American Indian studies. Please contact us as aisgsc@gmail.com.
In mid-April, Dr. Raymond J. DeMallie, a professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, lead a CIC-AISC graduate student workshop on the Ethnohistorical Method at Bloomington, Indiana. He graciously allowed Kellie Hogue, an Anthropology graduate student at Indiana University, to record his opening remarks so that we could turn it into a podcast. Dr. DeMallie also provided a relevant and interesting reading list to go along with his talk. We hope this podcast will serve as an introduction to Ethnohistory and we hope that you enjoy listening to it.
Reading List:
DeMallie, Raymond J. “‘These Have No Ears’: Narrative and the Ethnohistorical Method.” Ethnohistory 40(4): 515-538.
Fogelson, Raymond D. “The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents.” Ethnohistory 36 (1989):133-47.
Tanner, Helen H. “History Vs. the Law.” University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, 76 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. (1998-1999), pp. 693-708.
Whiteley, Peter M. “Why Anthropology Needs More History.” Journal of Anthropological Research. Vol. 60, No. 4 (Winter, 2004), pp. 487-514.
Congratulations to Janis Fairbanks, Sarah Dees, and Elspeth Martini respectively for winning the first, second, and third places conference paper prizes at this year’s conference!
We would like to thank all of the participants, commentators, and speakers that attended this year’s conference in Detroit. You helped make it a wonderful and rewarding experience. Thank you.
The CIC-AISC would like to announce that David Penney, Vice President of Exhibitions and Collections Strategies and Curator of the Native American Collections at the Detroit Institute of Arts will present the keynote address at this year’s graduate student conference. His talk is titled, “Black Prairie Chicken: The Reinvention of Yuwipi Priest as Artist at Early Fort Peck, Montana.”
Please join us in Detroit this February to enjoy Penney’s talk, and to present or participate in the conference.
Dr. Morgan, the interim-director of the CIC-AISC, just sent out an announcement about the conference.
“Preparations for the 12th Annual Grad Conference are in full swing and we are already looking foward to seeing you in Detroit in February.
Tentative schedule:
Thursday, February 3rd:
We have a block of rooms at the Atheneum starting on Thursday night. While there is no “official” event, we encourage people to come in on Thursday evening, meet up with friends, and sample some of Greektown’s lively offerings
Friday, February 4:
We will be hosting a welcome breakfast on Friday morning, February 4th at the Atheneum (the conference hotel) beginning at 8:30am. Since we are at the Detroit Institute of Arts, we need to schedule our sessions during the museum’s public hours. This means that sessions will begin at the very hospitable hour of 10:30am. Lunch will be on your own, but there are two great places to eat at the DIA and we will also be able to use the lunch break to explore the collections.
We will host a dinner and keynote talk beginning at 7:00 at the DIA. The museum is open until 10pm on Friday night, and there are a host of events happening there (music in Rivera court, film series, etc.) that participants can take advantage of as well.
Saturday, February 5th:
Saturday morning we begin with a special session at the Special Collections at the Detroit Public Library (conveniently across the street from the DIA). DPL has a terrific special collections, including the Burton Collection focusing on the old Northwest (including the original deed to Belle Isle). After that session, we will finish our paper presentions at the DIA and conclude the meetings around 5:00pm
Now that your intellectual and actual appetites have been whetted, please find attached a registration form. There is no registration fee this year, but because we are hosting two meals (Friday breakfast and Friday dinner) we need do need to know who is coming and if you will be at the planned meals. The deadline for registration is January 17th. You can either email the form to cicaisc@msu.edu or mail it to:
CIC-American Indian Studies Consortium
Michigan State University 301 Morrill Hall
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
Just a few friendly reminders:
1) Abstracts are due on December 10th. We need titles, abstracts, and submission forms
2) If you want your paper to be considered for a paper prize AND to be commented on by a CIC Faculty member, we need those papers sent by January 3rd.
Here’s the announcement for 2011′s CIC-AISC Graduate Student Conference. Make sure you send your 125 word abstract, title, and submission form to cicaisc@msu.edu by December 10, 2010.
See you in Detroit this February!
Adam Haviland just forwarded this:
“McNickle Seminar in American Indian Studies
Thursday, October 28, 2010, 4-5:30pm
The Newberry Library, Towner Fellows Lounge
“Geographies of Power: Mapping Indian Borders in the ‘Borderlands’ of the Early Southwest”
Juliana Barr, University of Florida
Geographies of Power: Mapping Indian Borders in the ‘Borderlands’ of the Early Southwest” confronts the problem that, in pursuing inclusive models for the intersections of diverse people across North America, early American scholars have lost sight of the integrity of bordered Indian domains and the power that gave them in their interactions with Europeans. In contrast to notions of early America as an undefined territory through which Europeans and Indians moved, traded, made treaties, and made war in lands neither could fully claim, this paper seeks to illustrate how different Indian polities created and maintained borders, and how such borders functioned as clear manifestations of sovereignty.
The seminar features scholarly discussion of papers based on work-in-progress. Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are urged to attend and to circulate news of this forum to colleagues. We will pre-circulate papers to those planning to attend. E-mail mcnickle@newberry.org, or call (312) 255-3564 to receive a copy of the paper. Papers are available two weeks prior to the seminar date. Please include your e-mail address in all correspondence.
In September 2010, Justin Carroll sat down with Dr. Mindy Morgan, the new interim director, and Rebbecca Nutt, the assistant director, and they discussed this year’s conference, workshops, and symposium. Thanks for listening and stay tuned for next month’s podcast on “Missed Opportunities.”
The Newberry Library, via Yolanda Zepeda, sent out a call for papers.
“The Newberry Library Seminar in American Indian Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS for the 2010–11 academic year
Deadline for Submission: 30 September 2010
This seminar provides a forum for works-in-progress that explore topics in American Indian Studies. We encourage the submission of proposals for seminar papers that examine a wide variety of subjects relating to American Indian and Indigenous history and culture broadly conceived. We welcome proposals from scholars working in a wide range of academic fields, and are particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches.
The seminar is open to graduate students, faculty members and independent scholars. Graduate students and junior faculty in the early-writing stages who wish to present work are especially encouraged to apply. To maximize time for discussion, papers are circulated electronically in advance. Priority is given to individuals who are at a stage of their research at which they can best profit from discussion. The seminar meets several times during the academic year, usually on a Thursday afternoon from 4pm to 5:30pm, at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois.
To propose a paper, please send a one-page proposal, a statement explaining the relationship of the paper to your other work, and a brief c.v. via email to: mcnickle@newberry.org. If you are interested in proposing a paper and have questions, please contact seminar coordinator and Director of the McNickle Center, Dr. Scott Manning Stevens.
The Newberry Library is unable to provide funds for travel or lodging, but can assist in locating discounted accommodations.”
Yolanda Zepeda sends:
“The Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of assistant professor that will begin in the fall semester 2012 and will be preceded by a one-year appointment as a post-doctoral associate during academic year 2011/12. The position can be accessed through the online employment system at the University of Minnesota. Please find more details about the job position from the document attached.”
