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Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group

2008 Annual Meeting,
Association of American Geographers,
April 15-19 2008, Boston Massachusetts

This year, the AAG Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group will hold a joint -pre-conference meeting with the Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights Commission of the International Geographers Union (IGU), and the Native Canadians Specialty Group of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), to be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the AAG in 2008. This joint meeting is entitled Indigenous Geographies of Struggle and Self-determination.

The pre-conference meeting in Plymouth will bring together geographers from around the world who work with Indigenous peoples, to aid in creating a network and to share our research and experiences. This meeting will allow for informal gatherings and exploration of the local area and history. While in Plymouth we will also be meeting with the local Native American community, the Mashpee Wampanoag. Accommodation has been arranged at the Pilgrim Sands Hotel (http://www.pilgrimsands.com/), double occupancy US $43, and triple occupancy US $34 per night, continental breakfast included).

At the AAG annual meeting in Boston, the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group will be sponsoring a symposium comprised of paper sessions, panels and a plenary speaker, Dr. Daniel Wildcat from Haskell Indian Nations University, on 15-16 April. Other Indigenous focused sessions will follow on the remaining days of the AAG conference.

Click the links below for information organized sessions.

IPSG-sponsored Sessions 2008 AAG Annual Meeting, by title:

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• Alternative Nationalisms: (Un)Doing National Spaces of Belonging (2)

• Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples I: Policy and Justice

• Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples II: Working with Animal Nations

• Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples III: Scientific, Historical and Indigenous Perspectives

• Diverse Economies 1: Nontimber forest products as lens for political ecology and diverse economies

• Geography encounters the Indigenous: Assessing theory and methodology in Human Geography

• Geography of Sovereignty

• Indigenizing Spaces: Deep-Spatial Perspectives on Place--IPSG Plenary with Daniel Wildcat

• Indigenous Geography and Education: Negotiating pedagogy in the classroom and the discipline.

• Indigenous Methodologies: Collaborative Research Strategies

• Indigenous Methodologies: Collaborative Research Strategies Talking Circle

• Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas: Conservation Through Self-Determination

• Indigenous Tourism I

• Indigenous Tourism II

• Informing GIScience with Indigenous Knowledge

• Local Knowledge Systems: Cultural, Historical and Political Ecology Perspectives I

• Local Knowledge Systems: Cultural, Historical and Political Ecology Perspectives II

• New Stories for Old Places I: Philosophy of Place for Indigenous Geographies

• New Stories for Old Places II: Politics of Place for Indigenous Geographies

• New Stories for Old Places III: Panel Discussion

• Nicolas Barbier documentaries on Indian-Non-Indian Conflicts, Discourses and Worldviews on the Nez Perce Reservation

• The Colonial Present I: Reclaiming Sovereignty and Identity

• The Colonial Present II: Geographical Imaginations

• The Colonial Present III: Changes in the Land

• The Colonial Present IV: Cultural and Material Property

• The Colonial Present V: Post-Coloniality and Indigenous Scholarship

AAG's Annual Meeting Website:
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Participation in Annual Meetings
of the
Association of American Geographers

The Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group has been increasingly active in organizing paper and panel sessions at the AAG Annual Meetings.

We encourage those interested in participating in IPSG sessions, or in having their sessions sponsored by the IPSG, to contact the Secretary, RDK Herman, at dherman@towson.edu.

IPSG-Organized sessions, previous conferences:

2007 AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco

2006 AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago

2005 AAG Annual Meeting, Denver

2004 AAG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia

2003 AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans

2002 AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles

2001 AAG Annual Meeting, New York

 

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