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From: FIRST NATIONS GRADUATE CIRCLE - UNC CHAPEL HILL
Date: 22 Feb 2004
Time: 14:00:32 -0500
Remote Name: 172.149.39.95
The Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is organizing a New Directions in American Indian Research Conference on March 18-20. The national conference will highlight research by American Indian scholars as well as non-Indian scholars who are researching topics pertaining to American Indian studies, issues, and communities. The conference is sponsored by UNC_Chapel Hill's First Nations Graduate Circle, the Graduate School, the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, the Curriculum American Studies, the Center for the Study of the American South, the School of Education, the Department of English, the North Carolina Humanities Council, and Western Carolina University's Cherokee Studies Program. The program will include keynote addresses by Dr. Rayna Green, Director of the American Indian Program at the National Museum of American History; Mari Jo Moore, Cherokee author and poet, Dr. Robert Allen Warrior, Associate Professor of English, University of Oklahoma; and Gretchen Bataille, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs for the University of North Carolina system. Presentations will be made by prominent American Indian scholars and the panels will be moderated by American Indian community leaders, faculty, and graduate students. These panels will provide valuable opportunities for students to present and discuss their research with other scholars. Evenings presentations will be free and open to the public A cultural workshop and performance by Ulali and the First Nations Women A Cappella Trio will culminate the conference events. Contact stremlau@email.unc.edu for further information and registration details. Last changed: 01/22/04