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CfP: Canadian Identity/Identities and Global Change

International Annual Conference of the French Association for Canadian Studies, 8-11 June 2016, Grenoble (FR)

Canada has been playing an active role in the acceleration and increase in exchanges caused by globalization. However, the country also has to face the consequences of events that concern the whole planet, otherwise known as “Global Change”.

If this notion of global change is widely accepted today in the field of environmental science and technology, other fields of expertise have just begun to analyze its effects, and this approach has opened up new perspectives on how to articulate events at different scales.

A conference devoted to this notion of global change could serve to link these fields and raise important questions on how Canada defines or redefines its position in a context of global change, and more particularly in the light of former representations of the country’s identity/identities.

Global change can refer to climate change, global economic recession, new energy debates, terrorism, the immediacy of information, and to their consequences, ranging from recent political standpoints and migration waves to the latest language and identity practices – including the fields of literature, photography and cinema.

For guidelines for proposals, further details and deadlines, visit the conference website.

Deadline for abstracts is October 30th, 2015. However, the AFEC needs to submit a pre-programme of this conference to apply for funding, so please tell them whether you intend to submit an abstract and give them the intended title (which you will be able to change later) before August 24.