9th Triennial Conference of the CENTRAL EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES
Budapest, Hungary
October 27–29, 2022
Deadline March 10, 2022
The Central European Association for Canadian Studies, in cooperation with Eötvös Loránd University, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Pázmány Péter Catholic University and Budapest Business School University of Applied Sciences, is pleased to announce a conference on “Canadian Landscapes” to be held in Budapest, Hungary, on October 27–29, 2022.
The Conference Organizing Committee welcomes papers in English or French on literary, cultural, political, geographical, environmental, historical, artistic, as well as business and economics–related perspectives of the conference theme, including (but not limited to) the following topics:
cultural landscapes
indigenous landscapes
multicultural and transnational landscapes
climate fiction
petrol fiction and other resource management induced landscapes
geological landscapes
ecocriticism
literary and cultural sustainability
visual arts
utopian and dystopian landscapes
(post)apocalyptic landscapes
landscapes in translation
ekphrasis
landscapes and identity
landscapes of the mind: psychological fiction
gendered landscapes
posthuman landscapes
historical landscapes
landscapes: theological interpretations
culinary landscapes
demographic landscapes
business landscapes (tourism, hospitality, finance, management, accountancy, foreign trade, EU–Canada relations)
economic landscapes
The intended program will feature keynote lectures, multiple thematic sessions, panel discussions, sessions for young Canadianists, as well as a teacher–training session and film screening.
Presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by Q&A at the end of each session.
PhD, MA and BA students are also welcome to participate with papers (with the option for BA students to deliver 10–minute presentations).
Abstracts of papers (maximum 250 words) and a one–paragraph CV for those planning to deliver papers should be submitted by e–mail to the organizers at karoli.canada@gmail.com and at deak.timea@kre.hu by March 10, 2022. Participants will be notified of the acceptance of their paper proposals by March 21, 2022.
A selection of papers will be published in a special, peer–reviewed journal issue devoted to the theme of the conference.