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CALL FOR PAPERS : PANEL ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Please see the details below. If anyone is interested in the panel discusion concerning Indigenous People, please send me a 200 word abstract at this e-mail address by the 21 May 1999. Also feel free to contact me with any questions. I will co-ordinate this panel. ___________________________________________________________________ The ISA RC05 on Race and Ethnic Relations is holding its interim conference in Israel on 7-8 July 1999. The first day of the conference will take place in Tel-Aviv University and the second in Al-Quds University. This would enable both Israeli and Palestinian scholars to take part in the conference. The main theme of the conference would be on general issues of racism and ethnicity but that are particularly pertinent to the Israeli/Palestinian situation. During the meeting of the RC Executive in Montreal it was agreed that the conference would be composed of six panels: Issues of Racism and Ethnicity in Israel and Palestine; Military Divided Societies; Indigenous People; Multiculturalism in Settler Societies; Diasporas and Homelands; Gender; Ethnicity and Nationalism. Anybody who is interested in giving a paper at the conference should email or fax a title and a 200 word abstract by the 31 of May to Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis at the University of Greenwich, London [[log in to unmask]; fax:+44-181-331-8905]. In case there are more acceptable papers than places on the panels, there will also be opportunity for poster displays and circulation of papers. As much as possible we would like to keep the conference running in one plenary mode. The dates of the conference were fixed a few days earlier than the big ISS conference organized by Prof. Eliezer Ben-Raphael at the University of Tel-Aviv, Ramat-Aviv, Israel. Anybody who is interested in taking part in that conference should get in touch with him. Unlike a few other ISA RCs we decided to organize our conference separately, not only in order to be autonomous, but also to enable those who cannot afford the fee of the large conference to take part. We are still investigating how much it would cost to transfer the delegates for the day from Tel-Aviv to Abu-Dis, a suburb of East Jerusalem, where Al-Kutz university is and to produce an abstracts booklet. We can only promise to organize the conference on a minimum budget and will also give you details on relatively cheap accommodation in Tel-Aviv. We are also hoping to organize 'alternative tours' during the 2 days between the end of our conference and the ISS conference. In the [unlikely?] case that due to the political situation it is not possible to hold the conference in Israel/Palestine we will make a contingency plan to hold it at the University of Greenwich, London, UK. Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis Gender & Ethnic Studies School of Social Scinces University of Greenwich, Southwood Site London SE9 2HB tel: +44-[0]181-331-8934; fax: 331-8905 email: [log in to unmask] ____________________________________ Dr. Charles Small, VATAT Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Ben-Gurion University, P.O.B 653, Beer-Sheva, Israel 84105 Tel: 972 7 647 2015 Fax: 972 7 647 2821 E-mail: [log in to unmask] E-mail: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%