International Colloquium, July 6-8, 2017, UCL Institute of the Americas, University College London, 51 Gordon Square, London (UK)
The Center for the Study of Canada at State University of New York College at Plattsburgh (NY, USA) and Fulbright Canada, in partnership with the Institute of the Americas, University College London, and the London Journal of Canadian Studies, published by UCL Press, are pleased to announce the convening of a colloquium entitles „Canada Inclusive/Exclusive: 150 Years and Beyond.“ Scholars affiliated with universities and research centres across Europe (especially the United Kingdom), Canada and the United States working in areas relevant to Canadian Studies are welcome to submit proposals. Please note that the working language of the colloquium will be English.
The colloquium, which is open to proposals with a significant Canadian focus, seeks to explore the theme of Canada and inclusivity/exclusivity. Disciplinary, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary scholarly inquiries dedicated to examining the relationship between Canada and inclusivity/exclusivity – in an anthropological, cultural, economic, geographic, historical, literary, natural sciences, political or social context – are especially encouraged. In what ways can Canada be rightly regarded as an inclusive society by the international community? What policies has Canada established and pursued over the past 150 years to foster and expand inclusivity? Have there over time been notable variations, across issues and governments, in Canada’s apporach toward inclusivity and how might these be explained? In other words, how might Canada be considered not to have embraced inclusivity? Finally, how well placed is Canada to embrace inclusivity – rather than exclusivity – moving forward, given the variety of pressing global concerns, as it celebrates its sesquicentennial?
The colloquium will be held at the UCL Insitute of the Americas, University College London, on July 7-8, 2017. The organizers are also looking at the possibility of arranging a pre-colloquium reception, featuring a keynote address, at Canada House, Trafalgar Square, on the evening of July 6th.
The deadline for the submission of colloquium proposals is February 15, 2017.
Dr. Christopher Kirkey, Director of the Center for the Study of Canada at SUNY Plattsburgh and Dr. Michael Hawes, Executive Director of Fulbright Canada, in partnership with Dr. Tony McCulloch, Senior Fellow in North American Studies at the UCL Institute of the Americas, will serve as the colloquium coordinators and journal editors.
Selected proceedings from the colloquium will be published as a special issue of the London Journal of Canadian Studies in Autumn 2018. Should there be a sufficient number of meritorious papers, a double issue of the LJCS will be published.
The London Journal of Canadian Studies is an online, open access (non-subscription)journal which has been published by UCL Press since 2014 and is underwritten by University College London –one of the world’s top universities and a world leader in open access publishing. As online access to the LJCS is entirely free, it has the largest potential readership of any academic Canadian Studies journal in the world. Printed copies are also available to journal contributors (up to 10 copies free of charge per contributor) and, upon request, to readers (for a small charge). Volume 32 (Autumn 2017) will be a special issue on Quebec and Volume 33 (Autumn 2018) will be the special issue on „Canada Inclusive/Exclusive“.
Colloquium Participation, Timing and Results
If you are interested in submitting a proposal for the July 2017 colloquium, please forward an abstract of not more than 300 words with a brief summary of your proposed paper, together with a working title, to each of the colloquium coordinators, as follows:
All submissions, which should include a current curriculum vitae, are due no later than February 15, 2017. Each submission will be evaluated by the selection committee. Successful candidates will be notified by March 1, 2017. At that time, these candidates will be provided with detailed writing guidelines (length, format, footnote/reference style requirements, and the like) in conformity with the London Journal of Canadia n Studies Guide to Contributors. A maximum of 25 proposals will be accepted for the colloquium.
Confirmed participants will be required to submit their draft contributions to the editors by May 31, 2017, prior to presentation and discussion of the papers at the colloquium in July. The colloquium participants will receive all of the draft papers in advance of the colloquium, the main purpose of which is to provide general and specific advice for the revision of manuscripts prior to submission to the London Journal of Canadian Studies.
By August 15, 2017, all colloquium contributors will be provided with a formal written evaluation of their papers, reflecting the views and suggested edits of a senior scholar as well as those of the colloquium coordinators. Contributors will then have until December 1, 2017, to undertake any suggested revisions and to re-submit their papers to Drs. Kirkey, Haws and McCulloch for review prior to the selection of papers to be included in the London Journal of Canadian Studies. After this selection has taken place, there will eb a further opportunity for the chosen papers to receive revisions to final submission in April 2018.
Colloquium Support for Participants
To facilitate involvement in this project, the Center for the Study of Canada, Fulbright Canada, and the UCL Insittute of the Americas are pleased to be able to provide conference presenters with the following support:
- an opening evening reception on Tursday, July 6, 2017
- refreshments, lunch and dinner, Friday, July 8, 2017; and
- refreshments and lunch, Saturday, July 8, 2017
To facilitate the participation of new scholars – i.e., masters and doctoral students and those holding a post-doctoral fellowship – and early career professionals not yet in full-time employment, the colloquium coordinators are further pleased to provide them with:
- hotel accomodation, near the UCL Insittue of the Americas, for three nights (arrival July 6 and departure of the morning of July 9) in London; and
- a contribution of up to 100 British Pounds per presenter towards any necessary travel expenses.
For any enquiries you may have, please contact the Drs. Kirkey, Hawes and McCulloch.