CALL FOR PAPERS
Maroons, Indigenous Peoples, and Indigeneity June 19-23, 2015 Charles Town, Portland, Jamaica
The Seventh Charles Town International Maroon Conference invites papers that explore the relationships between place and tradition in Indigenous and Maroon communities around the globe.
Held in the Maroon community of Charles Town surrounded by Jamaica's Blue and John Crow Mountains, this interdisciplinary conference will explore issues, values, and practices of Maroons and indigenous peoples as well as ideas about marronage and indigeneity to consider the ways they have endured, transformed, and resonated in the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, South America, Europe, the United States, and Africa. The conference offers a unique combination of scholarly panels and cultural events in fields that include history, linguistics, art, literature, film, sociology, ethnography, ethnomusicology, geography, legal studies, gender studies, religious studies, cultural studies, and indigenous studies.
Please send abstracts of 250-300 words by March 15 or inquiries to:
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Issues to consider might include:
Land Rights
Indigeneity
Territoriality
Marronage
Representation
Language and Literature
Identity
Space/Place
Sustainability
Dispossession and landlessness
Cultural heritage and tourism
Laws and legality
Music
DNA
Education
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