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Aktuelles Call for Papers

CfP: “Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Peoples: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and Reconciliation“

Colloquium Dates: March 7-10, 2018, Venue: Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows, Kohala Coast, Island of Hawai`i 

Fulbright Canada, and the Center for the Study of Canada at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh in partnership with the University of Hawai`i at M?noa, are pleased to announce the third in our annual Canada Colloquium series. These scholarly colloquia are aimed at addressing critical contemporary social, political and economic issues of relevance to Canada, the United States, and the international community. Our 2018 colloquium sets out to examine a broad range of indigenous issues, and, in particular, those that affect indigenous persons in North America, including the far north and with special reference to indigenous persons in Hawai`i. The colloquium, entitled Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Peoples: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and Reconciliation, will be convened at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel on the island of Hawai`i, from March 7-10, 2018. The colloquium will commence on Wednesday, March 7th and conclude on Saturday, March 10th.

The colloquium, which is open to proposals with a significant Canadian, American, or Canada-U.S. focus, seeks to explore a wide range of scholarly questions around the theme of Canada, the United States, and Indigenous issues. Disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary scholarly inquiries dedicated to examining the relationships between Canada, the United States, or Canada and the United States, Indigenous Peoples and complex issues surrounding sovereignty, sustainability, rights, and reconciliation – in an anthropological, cultural, economic, geographic, historical, literary, natural sciences, political or social context – are especially encouraged.

Further information on the Canadian Historical Association / La Société historique du Canada website.

Proposals are due no later than Oct. 31, 2017 

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Aktuelles Veranstaltungen

Symposium on the Occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Innsbruck (1997-2017)

Austrian-Canadian Relations in the Past Twenty Years: Facts and Highlights

November 23-24, 2017, Universität Innsbruck, Claudiasaal, Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse 3.

In the past months, Canada has been far more present in the Austrian media than in recent years: CETA has had feelings running high, with many hoping the agreement will stimulate the economy and others seeing it as a danger. The heated debates on the front pages of papers have made it easy to forget that Austria and Canada have maintained a long-standing and intensive relationship, and that the University of Innsbruck has played and still plays a decisive role in these relations.

The Centre for Canadian Studies at the University of Innsbruck has in many ways been a trailblazer since its inauguration in 1997. Its founding principle is an interdisciplinary approach, meaning that all areas of academia and science – from the humanities to the sciences, from technology to sports – come into play. Beyond the educational sector, real-life applications and cooperation with the world of business and economy as well as links to the public sphere have always been central to the CSC.

2017 is an important year in more ways than one: Canada is celebrating its 150-year anniversary, Austria and Canada can look back on 65 years of diplomatic relations, and the Canadian Studies Centre has existed for 20 years. To commemorate all these important anniversaries, the CSC will host a celebratory symposium at the University of Innsbruck that will focus on the various facets and highlights of Austro-Canadian relations of the past two decades.

Please find the preliminary program here.

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Aktuelles Neuerscheinungen

Neue Publikation: Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity: The Gerald Vizenor Continuum

Edited by Birgit Däwes and Alexandra Hauke

This volume brings together some of the most distinguished experts on Gerald Vizenor’s work from Europe and the United States. Original contributions by Gerald Vizenor himself, as well as by Kimberly M. Blaeser, A. Robert Lee, Kathryn Shanley, David L. Moore, Chris LaLonde, Alexandra Ganser, Cathy Covell Waegner, Sabine N. Meyer, Kristina Baudemann, and Billy J. Stratton provide fresh perspectives on theoretical concepts such as trickster discourse, postindian survivance, totemic associations, Native presence, artistic irony, and transmotion, and explore his lasting literary impact from Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart to his most recent novels and collections of poetry, Shrouds of White Earth, Chair of Tears, Blue Ravens, and Favor of Crows. With their emphasis on transdisciplinary, transnational research, the critical analyses, close readings, and theoretical outlooks collected here contextualize Gerald Vizenor’s work within different literary traditions and firmly place him within the American canon.

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Aktuelles Call for Papers

Call for Article Proposals: Special Issue on Canadian Urban Planning History

The editors of the Canadian journal Urban History Review are dedicating a future issue of the journal to the history of urban planning in Canada. The issue will be guest edited by Richard White, the historian of Toronto planning. Those interested in contributing should submit an abstract (in English or in French) of their proposed paper to him at richard.white@utoronto.ca. The editors are defining ‘urban planning’ quite broadly, and are open to a range of topics, historical periods, and approaches. They are looking for any empirically based articles that add to our understanding of the agents or institutions that strove, successfully or not, to prescribe aspects of the physical form of Canadian cities, at any time in Canada’s history. Abstracts must be received before the end of the day 31 October 2017, and those selected for inclusion in the issue will be notified promptly. The editors will expect finished papers (between 6,000 and 10,000 words) by mid-March 2018, and plan to publish the issue in late 2018.

See the Call for Paper

Submission deadline: Oct. 31, 2017