Dear AIW Committee members,
I have compiled a text for the Business Meeting 2022 Report from your feedback emails. Please check, whether I got everything right. If you have corrections or additions, please add them to the text below in a different color and send the text back to me asap. If I do not get response from you until June 16, 2022, I assume my text is ok for you.
Best, Renate
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Dear all,
this year the AIW met in Luxembourg from July 1-4, 2022. After two years of virtual workshops, we were happy to meet in-person again this year. The organizers Carlo Krieger and Tania Giberyen were even able to offer the AIW 2022 in hybrid form, for all those who could not travel to Luxembourg. We want to thank the organizers and their team for the perfect organization of this workshop and for the extra work and energy they had invested in the online format. The workshop was attended by ?? persons (?? In-person and ?? virtually). [Carlo, please add numbers] Carlo, Tania, and team, thank you for all your efforts and help!
The AIW Committee Meeting and AIW Business Meeting took place on June 2, 2022, and here is the report of the AIW Business Meeting:
Future AIWs
1. The next AIW 2023 will be in Budapest/Hungary. Judit Kádár invited the AIW members to Budapest and announced the topic: ANCESTRAL SHADOWS: Ethnocultural encounters carried in body and mind. The timeframe is the last week in May or first week in June. Judit Kádár is also open to accept sessions and panels on current research, including one on LGTBQI*. She asked for volunteers to review the paper submissions. The call for papers will be sent out soon through the AIW mailing list.
An open discussion followed regarding concerns of some AIW members about organizing an event in countries where the overarching political situation regarding LGTBQI* equality can be described as at least unfriendly. For more information, please see Miscellaneous.
2. The AIW 2024 will take place in Pardubice/Czech Republic. More information will be revealed by the organizer Livia Savelkova at the Business Meeting 2024 in Budapest.
3. Candidate for the AIW 2025 is Nijmegen/Netherlands. Matilde Roza, the potential organizer from Radboud University, told the participants that she will inform the AIW members at the next AIW Business Meeting 2023 latest, whether she will be able to organize the AIW 2025 or not.
4. Candidates for organizing an AIW in future years are welcome and requested to inform the AIW Committee by sending an email to: bartl@american-indian-workshop.org mailto:bartl@american-indian-workshop.org .
Accounting
The European University, Nicosia/Cyprus, refunded 155.00 EUR to the AIW for services provided in connection with the AIW 2021, organized by James Mackay. An additional donation of 50.00 EUR was mad by James Mackay to the AIW, which in all enables us to operate the AIW virtual server and mailing service for several more years. The accounting 2021 can be checked on our webpage: https://www.american-indian-workshop.org/about.html (scroll to bottom of page).
Balance per 31.12.2021: 950,53 EUR
Balance per 31.05.2022: 897,58 EUR
Restructuring the AIW
Basically, the implementation of all the proposals for restructuring the AIW are voluntarily, not mandatory, and the final decision is left to the organizers:
1. It is strongly recommended to include Currents Research Sessions into the program of future AIWs. 2. The implementation of poster sessions and exhibitions is voluntarily and left to the decision of the organizers. 3. There are plans to include a Young Scholars Forum, which will be discussed further. 4. The organization of future AIWs in form of hybrid meetings (in-person and online) are "strongly recommended, but depends on the financial affordability and technical manageability of the organizing institutions and is left to the decision of the organizers.
AIW Talkshop
During the last AIW Committee Meeting, our AIW Online Meeting Manager James Mackay had suggested to have an additional online format, complementary to the American Indian Workshop (AIW, to be held in-person annually as far as hygienic rules allow in-person conferences). Thomas Jacobs suggested to call it AIW Talkshop. The plan is to have a one-day online event with an open format, where conveners can decide how to design it. As James Mackay was not attending the AIW Business Meeting, the project could not be discussed further.
With the intent to test different formats of this AIW Talkshop, Markus Lindner (University of Frankfurt/Germany) has organized 2 AIW Talkshops (in consultation with James Mackay) on May 19 and June 30, 2022 (see: https://www.american-indian-workshop.org/events.html).
James Mackay has also volunteered to support further Talkshops with his online meeting expertise. Contact email: james.mackay@cytanet.com.cy mailto:james.mackay@cytanet.com.cy
Financing AIW Journal
The proposals and plannings for an AIW Journal have been discussed in AIW Committee Meetings in 2021 and the AIW Business Meeting 2021. In the Business Meeting 2022 the following requirements were suggested:
1. File storage for draft/preliminary/comment pieces (as-is) with comment area for reviews within a defined timeframe, legitimation process, and defined user roles according to the specifications/requirements. There is a need to use a suitable tool and to organize the process.
2. In order to handle financing requirements and provide funding, the proposal is to launch a non-profit association with membership fees that will pay for the expenses. As there is no legal framework for an EU non-profit organization yet, the non-profit association has to be organized on a national level. The proposal was accepted by the participants of the Business Meeting to start with a German based non-profit organization (gemeinnütziger Verein) under the initiative of Sonja Ross, Renate Bartl, and further interested persons.
AIW Bibliography (Thomas Jacobs)
1. There is a problem with entering certain letters - typically accented, capital letters in French - which will be resolved soon. In the meantime, those entries are being cached for future addition. There is no need to re-enter them. 2. Members are kindly reminded to enter their information directly into the databank rather than sending them to me. The link is on the webpage and can be found by hovering the mouse over the name of the databank. 3. Members are kindly reminded not to copy-paste text into the fields because punctuation marks do not transfer.
Miscellaneous
1. Referring to the Business Meeting 2021, some AIW members expressed their concerns about not having been heard appropriately regarding LGBTQI* fears related to the next AIW venues. To address these fears to the community the participants decided to attach an open letter of these AIW members to the report of the Business Meeting (see letter attached). The group also accepted Thomas Jacobs' proposal for "strongly recommending" to future AIW hosts to allow for a hybrid conference. Regarding the AIW 2023 in Budapest, the organizer Judit Kadar will work together with the local LGTBQI* community and is open to a session on LGTBQI* topics.
2. Nina Reuter, the co-organizer of the "INDIANER INUIT: THE NORTH AMERICA FILMFESTIVAL in Stuttgart/Germany (https://www.facebook.com/INDIANERINUIT), informed the participants that the festival wants to change its name and is asking for suggestions. Please send ideas for a new name to info@nordamerika-filmfestival.com mailto:info@nordamerika-filmfestival.com by August 31, 2022. The winning name idea will be rewarded with a film festival pass for the upcoming festival in 2023!
Best,
AIW Committee