@ the University of Texas. From their website (and see also their forthcoming conference on decolonisation and Mexican independence):

February 25-26, 2010

The focus of the conference is the British Empire during its “decade of crisis” between the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763 and the passage of the Tea Act ten years later. Over the course of this decade, Britons drastically transformed the way they viewed themselves and their empire. For the first time, British imperial policy extended to the governance of the French Catholic inhabitants of Canada, the Native people of the trans-Appalachian interior of North America, Africans in the new colony of Senegambia, and the twenty million inhabitants of Bengal subject to the authority of the East India Company. In Britain itself, the governance of this vastly extended empire engendered an enormous amount of bitter debate and anxious discussion in the halls of power as well as in the popular press. Among historians of each of the different parts of the British World, this decade has long been seen as one of crucial importance. However, while invaluable work has been done to examine British and indigenous relations and exchanges in specific colonial contexts, as well as to examine connections between the metropolis and specific colonial regions, there has been as yet few attempts to interrogate the links across and between the colonial regions and to set developments in particular regions into the context of the transformation of the British Empire as a whole. We aim to address this need by bringing scholars working on various aspects of the British World into dialogue and debate over the causes and character of the imperial transformation of the 1760s and early 1770s.

The conference will be organized around the discussion of pre-circulated papers. Accepted papers must be submitted for circulation to participants no later than February 1, 2010.

From H-Net:

The Peter Lang Publishing Group is launching a new series entitled Nationalisms across the Globe. One of these volumes will focus on Native American nationalism. The volume’s editors welcome scholarly submissions from academics and researchers in the field. If interested, please consult the list of topics below and submit a query including a 500-word abstract of your proposed paper, as well as sources consulted/cited and a brief biography of 200 words or less detailing your professional and academic qualifications in the area. If your proposal is accepted for publication, you will be requested to submit a complete essay, which should comply with the Peter Lang standards of copy-editing and must be delivered within one month of your proposal’s approval. Please submit your proposal with all relevant details (abstract, draft bibliography and a short bio) by 1 March, 2010.

I. Treaties and Legal Status
– historical changes in the legal status of Native Americans from the colonial times to today’s Canada and the US
– the use of terms/concepts of nation, band, tribe by colonial/Canadian & US lawmakers to Native American ethnic groups and the political and social implications for the latter
– the use / rejection / thinking /reactions of Native Americans to the concepts of nation, band, tribe, as imposed from outside by colonial / Canadian & US administrations

II. The Development of Native American National / Ethnic Movements
– general overview
– case studies
– land rights movement (division of Canada’s Northern Territories)
– Retainment, loss, revival, political and social (un)importance of Native American languages
– Residential School Experience in Canada and the USA

III. Comparisons
– with non-state ethnic/national movements in Latin America
– with non-state ethnic/national movements in Australasia and Oceania
– with non-state ethnic/national movements in Africa
– with non-state ethnic/national movements in Europe