Friday, April 20, 2007<br>9am - 7:30pm <br><br>Tufts University<br>Cabot Center (Fletcher School), 7th Floor<br>160 Packard Ave. 02155<br><br>Directions: <a href="http://fletcher.tufts.edu/directions/Default.asp">http://fletcher.tufts.edu/directions/Default.asp</a><br><br><br><br>The following message is sent on behalf of the organizers of the<br> Symposium on Indigenous Movements at Tufts:<br> <br> Tufts University will host a landmark symposium on April 20, 2007, <br> bringing together scholars and activists from the Andes, Canada, <br> Mesoamerica, Hawai'i, and the U.S. mainland to examine indigenous <br> movements and intellectuals throughout the Americas.<br> <br> This symposium will explore political, social, and cultural activism in <br> native communities throughout the hemisphere, as well as the emerging <br> participation of indigenous groups and individuals at national and <br> state levels of government. It will examine anthropological <br> constructions of
indigeneity as well as the role of indigenous <br> political movements such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, and individual <br> actors such as Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia. <br> It will also explore new forms of mobilization in the struggle for <br> indigenous rights and recognition, including new initiatives in <br> education, and the revival of indigenous languages and cultures. The <br> conference will also highlight the increased participation of <br> indigenous peoples in more mainstream forms of media and the arts.<br> <br> This event is particularly significant as it brings together academics <br> and activists who will discuss the crucial impact that indigenous <br> peoples are having on the reshaping of contemporary and conventional <br> forms of politics and intellectual production. The conference will also <br> be unique in creating a dialogue between activists and intellectuals <br> from throughout the Americas, both North and
South.<br> <br> Participants include Ramona Peters, spiritual leader of the recently <br> recognized Mashpee Wampanoag of Massachusetts; Terence Turner, <br> professor emeritus at Cornell University; Luis Millones, professor at <br> the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru; Victor Montejo, <br> Maya scholar and anthropologist at the University of California at <br> Davis, and elected member of the Guatemalan congress; Faye Ginsburg, <br> David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at NYU; and Stefano Varese, <br> Chair of the Native American Studies Department, and Director of the <br> Indigenous Research Center of the Americas, at the University of <br> California at Davis.<br> <br> FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE SEE: <br> <a class="fixed" href="https://webmail.tufts.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fase.tufts.edu%2Fanthropology%2Findigenous_movements%2F" target="_blank">http://ase.tufts.edu/anthropology/indigenous_movements/</a><p>
<hr size=1>Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?<br> Check out
<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48245/*http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE1YW1jcXJ2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3LWNhcnM-">new cars at Yahoo! Autos.</a>