Association for Canadian Studies in the Netherlands (ACSN)
and
Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA)
First
Nations in North America
Politics and Representation
May
29-31, 2002
Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Conference Program
Wednesday, 29 May 2002
| 12.00 | Registration | ||
| 12.45 |
Opening of the Conference |
||
| 13.00 | Session I | ||
| Marine LePuloch, University of Amiens, France | "Indian Rights and Title to Land in Canada: The Royal Proclamation of 1763, the Treaty of all Treaties" | ||
| John Connor, University of Acadia, Canada | "The Marshall Decision et Seq!" | ||
| Dimitri Portier, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, France | "Managing the Forest: The Example of the Nisga'a" | ||
| 14.30 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 15.00 | Session II | ||
| Denis Delâge, Laval University, Canada | "Bad Fathers, Fake Children" | ||
| Hartmut Lutz, Greifswald University, Germany | "History of Native American Studies/Canadian First Nation Studies in the Germanys/Germany" | ||
| 16.30 | Refreshments |
||
| 16.45 | Keynote Lavonne Brown-Ruoff, University of Illinois at
Chicago, United States |
"Early Native American Writers' Representations of Native Life" | |
| 17.45 | Reception |
Thursday, 30 May 2002
| 9.00 | Session IA | ||
|
Joy Porter, Anglia Polytechnic University, United Kingdom |
"Native American Writing in Historical Contexts" | ||
| Siobhan Senier, University of New Hampshire, United States | "Henry Mitchell, Indian Canoe Maker: A Penobscot Modern in the WPA" | ||
| Shamoon Zamir, King's College London, United Kingdom | "Photography and Native American Literature" | ||
| 9.00 | Session IB | ||
| Cunera Buijs, National Museum of Ethnology, The Netherlands | "Clothing as Visual Representation of Identities in East Greenland" | ||
| Yannick Meunier, Université de Paris III, France | "The Representation of Inuit Cultures at Sotheby's and Christie's: The Archaeological Collections" | ||
| Barbara Saunders and Ron Keats, University of Leuven, Belgium | "Mitsein versus Autonomy: Anthropological Museums and Northwest Coast Peoples" | ||
| 10.30 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 11.00 | Session IIA | ||
| Mick Gidley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom | "Photograph by American Indians: Creation and Revision" | ||
| Lisa MacFarlane, University of New Hampshire, United States | "Mary Schaffer's 'Comprehending Equal Eyes': Writing and Photographing the Stoney" | ||
| 11.00 | Session IIB | ||
| Joanna Bigfeather | (organization and topic to be announced) | ||
| Lorna Roth, Concordia University, Canada | "Aboriginal Television, Globalization, Multiple Identity Claims, Citizenship and 'Development'" | ||
| 12.00 | Keynote Alan Trachtenberg, Yale University, United States | "Land of the Spotted Eagle Counter-Ethnology" | |
|
13.00 |
Lunch |
||
| 14.00 | Session IIIA | ||
| Susan Berardin, State University of New York at Oneonta, United States | "Capturing and Recapturing Culture: Grace Nicholson among the Karuk in Northwestern California" | ||
| Astrid Wind, Somerville College, United Kingdom | "'Worthy of the Soil on Which We Live': Native Americans in the Early Romantic Nation" | ||
| Rob Kroes, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands | "European Constructions of the Indian: Karl May and Buffalo Bill" | ||
| 14.00 | Session IIIB | ||
| Conny Steenman-Marcusse, University of Leiden, The Netherlands | "Native Representation in Margaret Laurence's The Diviners" | ||
|
Hélène Destrempes, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada |
"Bridging the Cultural Divide: The Quest for National Identity in French Native Literature in Quebec" | ||
| Lionel Larré, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, France | "Life Among the Piutes: An Autobiography by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins" | ||
| 15.30 | Refreshments | ||
| 16.00 | Session IVA | ||
| Lea Zuyderhoudt, University of Leiden, The Netherlands | "Faith as a Factor in Shaping the Past: Cross-Cultural Dynamics in the Interpretation of Blackfoot History" | ||
| Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, France | "Fabrication of an Iroquoian Saint by the Catholic Church: Kateri Tekakwitha" | ||
| 16.00 | Session IVB | ||
| Jaap van der Bent, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands | "Native Americans in the Work of the Beat Generation" | ||
| Gene Moore, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands | "Faulkner's Politically Incorrect Indians" | ||
| 17.00 | Keynote Aritha van Herk, Author | "Encountering Himself: Peter Fidler Takes Advice" | |
|
18.00 |
Buffet and Evening Performance Yvette Nolan, Playwright and Performer |
Performance: "Ghost Dances" Three Movements | |
Friday 31 May, 2002
| 9.00 | Session I | ||
| Martin Whittles, University College of the Cariboo, Canada | "From Noble Collectivist to Rugged Individual: Non-Inuit Contact Narratives in Context" | ||
| Jarich Oosten, University of Leiden, The Netherlands | "Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and the Construction of a New Inuit Identity in Nunavut" | ||
| Cor Remie, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands | "Nunavut: Three Years After" | ||
| 10.30 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 11.00 | Session II | ||
| Annie Kirby, University of Wales, United Kingdom | "Coyote and the Trick(s) of Naming: Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water and The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour" | ||
| Suzanne Harmsen, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands | "The Ghost Dance Vision in Leslie M. Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes" | ||
| 12.00 | Keynote Yvette Nolan, Playwright and Performer | "Seeing Things Invisible" | |
| 13.00 | Lunch | ||
| End of Conference | |||