Call for Papers for Conference on Native American History:

Call for Papers for Conference on Native American History:

The faculty of Jacksonville State University’s History and Foreign Languages Department invites paper, workshop session, and roundtable proposals for a symposium on Indigenous History, Survivance, and Sovereignty. We especially are looking for works on the US Southeast, but welcome papers on other peoples and locations as well. We welcome papers from scholars at all levels and independent scholars. Special consideration will be given to Indigenous scholars.  Individual presentations should be approximately 10-15 minutes. Roundtables should plan to last approximately 1 hour.

This symposium will work to acknowledge this history, promote scholarship of Indigenous American history, and plan next stages of reconciliation between the institution, current peoples, and the history of northeast Alabama.

We hope to achieve through this conference the following goals:

1. A day long symposium bringing together community members, activists, scholars, and officials to share scholarship and ideas on promoting indigenous history.

2. Share scholarship on indigenous history, survivance, and sovereignty.

3. A working plan to promote and support indigenous history more in public history programs throughout the community.

4. Develop ideas and programming around reconciliation.

We invite proposals from interested parties to please submit an abstract/summary of their paper or session as an attached email along with a short bio and/or CV by September 1, 2025. 

Decisions for inclusion in the program will be determined by October 15, 2025.

For submissions and questions please reach out to Drs. Tamara Levi (tlevi@jsu.edu), Wesley Bishop (wrbishop@jsu.edu), and Kathryn Catlin (kcatlin@jsu.edu).