2002 ACSN Conference

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