October 21-22, 2022 Hybrid conference: Online and in Ottawa

Deadline: July 20, 2022

Historically, war has been a profoundly gendered experience, as traditional dichotomies put women securely on the “Homefront,” as supporters, caregivers and afterward, as mourners of the dead. Much scholarship has reflected on the historical experiences both on the battlefield and the “Homefront,” and we now know that these two cannot be neatly separated. Early historiography focused on the contention that war broke down gender norms, even was liberating for women. While we are interested in continuing such discussions, we are also hopeful of expanding and diversifying them by hearing about gendered experiences of war-related activities in Ontario. How did women manage new familial tensions, take on new types of work, remember those who were lost? In particular, we seek to explore how war is now taught in schools, how war is remembered and preserved through public history institutions and through commemoration, and new insights from current academic research on these subjects.

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New deadline for submissions is June 24, 2022.

Oulu, Finland Nov 30-Dec, 2 2022

https://genderstudiesconference2022.edu.oulu.fi/call-for-papers

We are welcoming scholars, students, activists and artists across wide fields of feminist and gender research and praxis to join us for the international Gender Studies conference 2022 – Feminist Matterings: Indigenous and Arctic Engagements. The conference will host 26 workshops that cover the themes of the conference in inter/transdisciplinary manner and from various perspectives.

The conference seeks to produce new feminist and Indigenous thought to reimagine future solidarities and ways of knowing. The conference calls to explore how rich transdisciplinary collaboration can help feminist research matter in the effort to build more sustainable, intelligent and humane world(s) in the Arctic and beyond. In addition to alluding to the ethico-political significance of feminist research, the keyword matterings in the conference title also refers to new materialist inspirations and the material aspects of knowledge production. In the spirit of Science and Technology Studies (STS), we wish to investigate the material aspects of epistemic practices and the complex relationship between knowledge and power.

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Date limite de soumission des propositions : 1er août 2022

Fémur : Revue étudiante de critique littéraire de l’Université de Montréal

https://revuefemur.com/index.php/2022/06/14/appel-a-propositions-n-6-gabrielle-roy-echos-et-experiences-dune-oeuvre/

Parce que régulièrement enseignée et massivement commentée, et ce, depuis plusieurs décennies, par d’imposantes analystes ayant proposé des lectures qu’il semble parfois difficile de dépasser¹, l’œuvre de Gabrielle Roy peut laisser croire qu’elle est aujourd’hui usée ou, à tout le moins, qu’elle se révèle toujours plus difficile à atteindre, tout engluée ou empêtrée qu’elle est dans une imposante masse de discours critiques. Or cette impression (mensongère) qui laisse croire qu’on a fait le tour du jardin à son sujet ou que les accès pour entrer dans son œuvre sont encombrés mérite très certainement d’être dissipée. Au sujet des classiques littéraires, Italo Calvino rappelait à juste titre que les canons littéraires « provoque[nt] sans cesse un nuage de discours critiques, dont [ils] se débarrassent continuellement² » ou dont il faut continuellement les extirper pour en redécouvrir l’actualité.

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Date limite : 31 août 2022

Direction du numéro : Julien Larregue (Université Laval), Jean-Philippe Warren (Université Concordia)

Argumentaire

Bien que la sociologie soit, comme toute science, guidée par une visée universaliste (Merton 1973), les nombreux travaux qui ont été consacrés à des traditions nationales démontrent que la science des phénomènes sociaux est susceptible de revêtir des formes différentes dans le temps et l’espace : la sociologie n’est pas au Danemark (Kropp 2015) ce qu’elle peut-être en France (Heilbron 2015), cette dernière étant à maints égards distincte de ce que l’on peut observer en Italie (Cousin et al. 2022) ou au Royaume-Uni (Platt 2003). De la même façon, l’histoire de la sociologie québécoise francophone est intimement nationale (Warren 2003), tant et si bien qu’elle en est venue à être distinguée tant de la sociologie canadienne-anglaise (Warren 2011; Helmes-Hayes et Warren 2017) que de la sociologie francophone produite dans d’autres provinces canadiennes (Massicotte 2008).

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Special Issue of Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies
Guest editors: Stephanie Oliver and Kit Dobson

Deadline: June 30, 2022

“Now, welcome to the Anthropocene
you battered, tilting globe. Still you gleam,
a blue pearl on the necklace of the planets.”

– Alice Major, “Welcome to the Anthropocene”

“We want to restore balance, right relations, ethical being. We cannot afford delusional hierarchies. We will not race each other to the bottom. We commit to live up to the future’s call. We want our lives to not be wasted.”

– Rita Wong, “Bisphenol Ache”

How might literary scholars and writers in Canada respond in meaningful ways to ongoing ecological crises? Between the crises of prairie drought, Rocky Mountain and Boreal forest fires, flooding in both Alberta and British Columbia, rapid Arctic warming, and rising sea levels, as well as politically significant ecological concerns such as logging in Fairy Creek, pipelines impacting the Wet’suwet’en, and the Site C dam on the Peace River, environmental questions are unavoidable in this moment. It becomes increasingly clear that literary critics and creative writers need to (re)train themselves to respond to the climate emergency.

This retraining, too, comes amidst a broad movement to reconceptualize writing in the place currently called Canada. Critics such as Tania Aguila-Way, Pamela Banting, Greg Garrard, Jerry Kerber, Sarah Krotz, Cheryl Lousley, Susie O’Brien, Nicole Shukin, Astrida Neimanis, Laurie Ricou and many others have shown that ecocriticism in Canada is by now an established area of study, one that is engaged in an ongoing process of reframing how criticism and writing are understood, and Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley have argued that early writing in Canada – as well as theorizations thereof – problematically sought to understand the environment as a place of threat and danger. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Vanessa Watts, Zoe Todd, Adnil Gosine, Cheryl Teelucksingh, Ingrid Waldron, Beverly Jacobs, Karina Vernon, and others have also expanded the field by developing new frameworks for investigating the links between environmental risk and systemic inequities. Building on this work and more, this special issue contends that attention is needed for literatures that engage land and environment to prompt different affects. How might literary studies engage, for instance, with popular scientific discourses that contend that natural environments link to human happiness? How might narratives of happiness and resilience be meaningfully brought to bear on the necessity of adaptation to environmental crises? Alternatively, how might literary forms resist coercive demands for individualistic forms of resilience? How might land and environment connect to possibilities for resilience in a literary context?

Moreover, and as Cree-Métis scholar Deanna Reder argued during a session at the 2021 ACCUTE conference, Canadianists and scholars in allied fields need to be retrained in not only researching and teaching Indigenous literatures, but also indigenizing literary methods. For Reder, such retraining responds to call #62 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, and it can be linked, too, to the need to develop literary relationships to land that undo forms of colonial violence. How might narratives of resilience be reframed in such a context? What forms of resistance to colonial norms are needed in order to confront contemporary crises? How does literature engage in this work?

Also, and unavoidably, such retraining comes at a time when scholars and writers are navigating the “return to normal” that ostensibly comes with COVID becoming endemic – “as if that normal was not in contention,” Dionne Brand cautions. How is literature uniquely positioned to investigate what this “return” will look like? Instead of individualistic forms of adaptation, how, instead, might the literary point toward alternative, social lines of flight away from an environmentally destructive form of “return”?

In this special issue, we are interested in the following, non-exhaustive questions:

• How are notions of resilience and happiness reworked and set in dialogical interaction in / through literature?
• What are the literary affects of this moment of ecological crisis?
• What models do writers offer for thinking and feeling through these crises?
• Anthropocene, chthulucene, capitalocene, and more: how might literary works help to define this epoch?
• If “decolonization is not a metaphor” (Tuck and Yang), what does that mean for environmental literary studies, given literature’s reliance upon metaphor itself?
• How might literary works play a role in mobilizing readers’ ecological senses to incite climate action?
• What role do the senses play in representing the (complex, striated) relationships between humans, non-humans, and places at this moment in time?
• How might literature offer what rita wong terms a “syntax of hope”?
• To what will we “return” in literary studies and / or classrooms? How might we conceptualize such a return?
• (How) can literary studies in Canada (and beyond!) become an environmentally just practice?

All submissions to Canada & Beyond must be original, unpublished work. Articles, between 6,000 and 7,500 words in length, including endnotes and works cited, should follow current MLA bibliographic format. The editors also encourage alternative forms of scholarship and creative engagement. Submissions should be uploaded to Canada & Beyond’s online submissions system (OJS) (https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2254-1179/index) and simultaneously sent to ssoliver@ualberta and christopher.dobson@ucalgary.ca by June 30, 2022. For more information please contact the guest editors at the e-mail addresses above.

This CFP is part of the work conducted within the international research project Narratives of Happiness and Resilience.

Indigenous Studies Discussion Group (ISDG), University of Cambridge, Cambridge/UK

September 22-23, 2022

Deadline: June 27, 2022

https://antczako2.wixsite.com/mysite/post/call-for-sessions-indigenous-studies-in-the-united-kingdom-europe-sept-2022

The Indigenous Studies Discussion Group Research Network (ISDG) at the University of Cambridge is excited to announce a two day hybrid conference which aims to further interdisciplinary discussions under the broadly conceived heading ‘Indigenous Studies in the United Kingdom & Europe: Pasts, Presents and Futures’. The conference will take place over 22-23 September 2022.

In seeking to broaden debate and de-centralise knowledge sharing as much as possible, we are opening calls for conference panels from individuals and groups. Panels will comprise three papers followed by an invited speaker who may either tie the papers together or offer comment on them under a central theme.

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