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Prof. em. Dr. Hartmut Lutz in die Royal Society of Canada aufgenommen!

Prof. em. Dr. Hartmut Lutz ist Mitglied und ehemaliger Präsident der GKS (2009-2011) – wir gratulieren herzlich zu dieser Auszeichnung!

Porträt von Prof. em. Dr. Hartmut Lutz, ©Patrick-Gessner, 2021
Porträt von Prof. em. Dr. Hartmut Lutz, ©Patrick-Gessner, 2021

Als zweiter deutscher Wissenschaftler überhaupt wurde der Greifswalder Nordamerikanist  in diesem Jahr in die Königliche Akademie von Kanada (Royal Society of Canada) aufgenommen. Damit werden seine Leistungen im Bereich der anglokanadischen Literatur und insbesondere der Literaturen und Kulturen der Indigenen Bevölkerungsgruppen international gewürdigt.

Hier geht es zur Pressemeldung der Universität Greifswald und hier zur Würdigung der RSC.

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American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA/USA: Fellowships (long and short term):

Deadlines:        Hench Post Dissertation Fellowship – October 15, 2021

AAS-NEH Post Doc Fellowships – January 15, 2022

Short-Term Academic Research Fellowships – January 15, 2022

https://www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowships

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), a national research library, welcomes applications from scholars on topics related to early American history and culture. The fellowships are designed to enable academic and independent scholars and advanced graduate students to spend an uninterrupted block of time conducting research in the AAS library. AAS collections encompass approximately four million books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, children’s literature, sheet music, prints, maps, photographs, ephemera, and other graphic arts materials. Materials come from what are now the United States, portions of Canada, and the Caribbean, and date from the introduction of the printing press in America in 1640 through 1900. A hallmark of AAS fellowships is the welcoming environment and the assistance of a staff widely known for its knowledge and helpfulness. The resulting collegial atmosphere fosters the sharing of ideas among fellows from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Scholars working on Indigenous and African American topics are encouraged to apply.

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Call for Contributions: ReVisions – Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada (essay collection)

Edited by Wendy Roy, University of Saskatchewan

Deadline: February 1, 2022

During a global pandemic, the ways that speculative fiction, film, and television comment on the present as well as the future have become acutely evident. These genres ask readers to consider environmental, health, technological, and political events and developments in the world today, and the impacts these may have on the world of the future. They are often used by their creators to represent and speculate on key societal issues, such as relations of class, gender, and race, as well as issues of health safety, environmental destruction, and political conflict. In Canada, speculative writing has become a tool to interrogate colonial systems and histories, and to open up spaces for members of often marginalized groups, including women, Indigenous peoples, members of LGBTQ2S+ communities, and others whose lives are inflected by cultural difference. A variety of speculative worlds have achieved popularity through films and television/internet series, some of which are adapted from other genres.

We invite submission of academic papers and creative works that explore or put into practice the re-envisioning/revision of futures and societies in or relating to Canada. What do speculative texts tell us? Which visions of “Canada” do we find in speculative texts? How do these visions reflect our own perceptions of the world? Does this kind of literary and/or visual imagination offer space for grief, resilience, and hope? Does it help us respond constructively to crises or achieve social change?

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The Riley Lectures in Canadian History: Allyson Stevenson – The Sixties scoop and the colonization of indigineous kinship

October 7, 2021; 7-8:30 pm (GMT-5), virtual

Allyson Stevenson is a Métis scholar and adoptee, ehose family is from Kinistino, SK, raised in Pile of Bones/Regina. She joined the Indiginous Studies Department at the UNiversity of Saskatchewan as the Gabriel Dumont Chair of Métis research in July 2020. Her book, Intimate Integration: The Sixties Scoop and the COlonoitaion of Indigenous Kinship was published with the University of Toronto Press in December 2020. She has published research on Prairies Indigenous dipliimacy, the history of decolonizing the care of Métis children in Saskatchewan, and Indigenous women’s political organizing. She is now undertaking a research project that will explore the significance of water and riverways to Métis identity and culture, working in collaboration with the Métis community of kah-ministik-ominahkoskahk (Pine Island), otherwise known as Cumberland House.

register to attend at uwinnipeg.ca/history

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CFP: Transatlantic Diasporas

Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society (FCHS)

College of Charleston, Charleston, SC/USA

May 12-14, 2022

Deadline: November 15, 2021

https://frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeting/

The 46th annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society (FCHS) will take place in Charleston, SC in conjunction with the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW) and the Huguenot Society of South Carolina. Conference events will take place on the campus of the College of Charleston and conference associated activities will occur in historic downtown Charleston.

This year’s theme will be “Transatlantic Diasporas,” which invites participants to reflect on the diasporic networks that defined the French colonial world. These might include religious diasporas and networks such as the Huguenots; political dissident groups like the émigrés who fled the French Revolution; or planters who fled the Haitian Revolution; or diasporas of Africans or indigenous people who scattered around the French colonial world and interacted in various ways with colonial and imperial power structures. We are especially eager to receive proposals connected to Africa, the French Caribbean, and connections of these places to other colonies in the Americas. The Society encourages students, scholars, and educators from all disciplines to submit proposals. Papers may be delivered in English or French.

Individual paper proposals should include a 100-200 word summary with the title of the paper, name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and phone number, and a brief curriculum vitae, all integrated into a single file, preferably in MS-Word.

Proposals for complete panels or round tables will contain the same information for each participant, as well as contact information and a short C.V. for the moderator if one is suggested. The program committee can help find moderators, if necessary. Individuals wishing to moderate a session should send a statement of interest, contact information, and a brief c.v. as well.

Please indicate in your proposal whether audiovisual equipment is required. Given the higher than normal anticipations of travel restrictions and potential of traditional in-person presentations, please indicate if you/your panel would be willing to adapt your presentation to a strictly digital format using Microsoft Teams or Zoom.

Individual or panel proposals will be accepted between September 30 and November 15, 2021. Please send proposals to frenchcolonial2022@gmail.com

Graduate students who wish to be considered for the Shorrock Travel Award should indicate so on their proposal, and should include an estimated budget of travel expenses and other anticipated sources of funding with their application.

Given the specific partnerships between the three institutions, conference fees include one free annual membership to any of the three participating institutions and receipt of access and privileges associated with those specific affiliations.  During registration, you will be able to selection a membership of your choice.  Lifetime members of each organization will be required to submit the conference fee to cover organization and execution of the conference.

Additional information about the Society’s scholarly activities, fellowships, and past conferences is available at www.frenchcolonial.org.