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Appel à communications: Huitième colloque des Jeunes Chercheurs Européens en Études Québécoises

Colloque de l’Association des Jeunes Chercheurs Européens en Études Québécoises (AJCEEQ), jeudi 5 et vendredi 6 octobre 2017, Montpellier, Université Paul-Valéry – Site Saint-Charles

En 24 ans, l’AJCEEQ a reçu plus d’une centaine de participants en provenance de 18 pays. Forts du succès de ses rencontres internationales, nous invitons l’ensemble des jeunes chercheurs européens en études québécoises (littérature, théâtre, cinéma, BD, art, histoire, histoire de l’art, anthropologie, géographie, sociologie, linguistique, chanson, danse, muséologie…) à participer à notre 8ème colloque international.

Après Paris, Gênes, Montréal (ACFAS), Innsbruck, Venise et Berlin, l’AJCEEQ sera accueilli par lÄUniversité des Arts, Lettres, Langues, Sciences Humaines et Sociales Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (France), avec le soutien de l’école doctorale 58 – Langues, littératures, cultures, civilisations (LLCC) et de la Direction des relations internationales et de la francophonie (DRIF).

L’AJCEEQ est ouverte à l’ensemble de la recherche en sciences humaines portant sur le Québec. Aussi, nous invitons l’ensemble des jeunes chercheurs en études québécoises à proposer une communication concernant leur recherche.

Les personnes qui désirent faire état de leur recherche doivent s’adresser avant le 20 février 2017 à l’Association. Tous les jeunes chercheurs européens dont la recherche porte sur le Québec peuvent proposer une communication de 15 minutes selon les conditions émises par l’AJCEEQ.
La présence de pré-actes distribués quelques jours avant le colloque aux présidents de séance, – des universitaires spécialisés dans  les domaines abordés – fait de ces rencontres un événement à la fois fort studieux et très convivial.

Nous encourageons ainsi les études québécoises sur le continent euroéen en nouant des échanges intergénérationbels, interdisciplinaires et transnationaux permettant à certains d’entre nous de sortir de leur insolement.

La réussite de ces journées repose sur la divulgation de leur existence auprès des jeunes chercheurs et des enseignants-chercheurs ayant les études québécoises comme centre d’intérêt. Nous comptons sur vous et votre entourage pour transmettre l’information auprès du plus grand nombre.

Nous sommes ouverts à toute proposition pouvant aider l’épanouissement des études québécoises en Europe. Si vous pensez pouvoir collaborer d’une façon ou d’une autre à notre projet, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter.

Au plaisir de vous rencontrer, Le Comité d’organisation:
Elsa Guyot (France), Hélène Amrit (France), Anna Giaufret (Italie)

Calendrier:

  • Soumission des propositions (un résumé de 1500 caractères maximum avec und bibliographie concernant la recherche présentée) ; un CV et vos coordonnées ainsi que les coordonnées de votre directeur de thèse : avant le 20 février 2017
  • Confirmation d’axxeptation : avant le 20 mars 2017.
  • Envoi du texte complet : avant le 30  mai 2017 (établissement des pré-actes).

Adresse email.

 

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CfP: „Borders: Visibe and Invisible“

Conference of the American Society for Ethnohistory, October 12 – 14, 2017, Fairmont Hotel, ᐄᐧᓂᐯᐠ Wînipêk Winnipeg, Manitoba/Canada

Located at the intersection of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, the city of Winnipeg, which gets its name from the Cree word for „muddy waters“ rests near the geographic and latitudinal heart of North America on Canadian Treaty 1 lands. The long history of this place going back thousands of years is humbling given the communities of Assiniboine, Cree, Dene, Dakota, Inuit, Métis and Ojibwe who made the lakes, rivers, and prairies of Manitoba their home negotiated the first treaties following the confederation of Canada, sought Truth and Reconciliation and decided to be Idle no More. The rivers that drew Native peoples here also brought French traders to the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in 1738, while the British sailed their trading ships into the enormous bay they named after Henry Hudson and competed with the French for Indigenous allies and environmental resources. The Selkirk settlers established the Red River colony in 1811, and the intervention of Americans favoring annexation of the region contributed to the political chaos that spawned the Métis Red River resistance whose leader, Louis Riel, resisted the confederate government of Canada and US annexation pressures to found the province of Manitoba. In recent years Winnipeg has grown to become the seventh largest city in Canada, known for its flourishing arts scene, green spaces, the Manitoba and Huston’s Bay Company Archives, the Manitoba Museum, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the New Canadian Museum of Human Rights. Winnipeg continues to remain an indigenous space with one of the highest percentages of First Nation, Innuit and Métis peoples calling it home of any major North American City; it continues to be an intersection  between Canada’s indigenous and settler cultures. 2017 will mark the 150th anniversary of Canadian Conferedation. Please join us to celebrate this historical moment at a vibrant historical place.

Borderlands studies have reoriented understandings of settler and Indigenous interactions while reconsidering and complicating important links between the environment, politics, society, and culture in in-between spaces. Ethnohistorians continue to seek new methods, including incorporating oral history, literature, language revitalization, digital humanities, and community initiated projects into their scholarship in order to give voice to the stories of indigenous communities. This scholarship works to bridge the borders that continue to divide academia from communities. The American Society for Ethnohistory’s 2017 program committee encourages submission of proposals that will illuminate the visible and invisible borders created across landscapes, within societies, between cultures or political states, divide communities, and highlight the events and ideas that encourage breaking down walls and barriers as well as the bridges across borders and boundaries that seek reconciliation.

Please submit your proposal as a MS Word document to this Email address by April 30, 2017. Notifcation of the status of the submission by June 15, 2017.

Please follow the guidelines below for Individual Papers, Panles, Roundtable Discussion Panels, Film Screenings, and Poster Sessions.

Individual Paper, Poster Session, and Film Screening Proposal:
Please include with your abstract a brief, one-page curriculum vitae. When submitting your file via email to the above-mentioned address, please save the file as Lastname_Individual.docx and your CV as Lastname_CV.docx

PAPER or DISCUSSION TITLE
ABSTRACT: 250 – 300 words, single-spaced
Name
Institutional affiliation
Mailing Address and Email
Phone

Paper Panel and Roundtable Discussion Panel Proposal:
In your panel proposal please be sure to include a one-paragraph description of the panel that details the panel title, proposed Chair and Commentator for the panel, number of papers to be included in the panel, and for each of the participants submit the abstracts of individual paper proposals. For the files submittes, please save the entire panel proposal (including individual abstracts and panel description) with the Organizer’s Last name as Lastname_Panel.docx and then includ ebrief one-page CVs for each  participant in one document with the Organizer’s Last name as Lastname_CV.docx

Name
Institutional Affiliation
Mailing Address and Email
Phone

Audivisual Equipment: All breakout rooms at the Fairmont Hotel will include a computer LCD projector and screen. Plese make sure to bring your presentation with you on a flash drive and please make sure to let the prgram organizers (Cary Miller) know if you need further equipment for a film screening.

Program Committe:
Cary Miller, University of Manitoba
Rebecca Kugel, University of California-Riverside
Lucy Murphy, Ohio State University
Jennifer Brown, University of Winnipeg (emeritus)
Regna Darnell, University of Western Ontario
Rose Stremlau, Davidson University
Jennifer Jughes, University of California-Riverside
Patricia Harms, Brandon University
Nicole St. Onge, University of Ottawa

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CfP: „East/Central European Cultures Inside and Out: Local and Global Perspectives“

Conference, 10 – 13 May 2017, Hotel Meta, Szczyrk (Poland), organized by

The Department of American and Canadian Studies, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
&
The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Canada

The first of the intended series of conferences dedicated to the exploration of the complexity of East/Central European cultures — both at home and in diaspora — is a joint project of the Wirth Institute, University of Alberta, Canada, and the Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. As we initiate our cross cultural academic discussions in a year marking Canada’s 150th  anniversary of Confederation, this conference focuses on topics relating to Canada and East/Central Europe.

For many decades the cultures of East/Central Europe have been either underrepresented or conspicuously absent from Western critics’ discussions. Comparative perspectives on East/Central Europe and Canada have been even scarcer. The discourse of “otherness” has been imposed on East/ Central European literary and artistic productions denying them significance and legitimacy. Citizens of these countries have experienced intense national, cultural and linguistic identity dilemmas. Both East/Central Europe and Canada have been historically multicultural although for many years the governments of these countries denied such representations.

We are interested in this historical multiculturality and the co-existence strategies that evolved or did not evolve within these ethnic mosaics.  We cordially invite interested scholars, writers and artists to submit paper proposals on topics pertaining to  the cultures of the region and its diasporas in Canada, as well as to the intercultural and transcultural dialogues between/among  these cultures. Analyses of literary and artistic representations and enactments of these complex cultures are encouraged.

We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers from all disciplines, including literature, culture, film, history, anthropology and politics. Interdisciplinary perspectives are encouraged. Comparative papers will be given priority. Submissions from graduate and postgraduate students at any stage of their research are welcome.

The following list of topics should be regarded as neither exhaustive nor prescriptive:

  • Multiethnicity in East/ Central Europe: Diachrony and Synchrony
  • After 1989:  East/Central European Cultures at Home and in East/Central European Diasporas in Canada
  • East/Central European Cultures After 9/11: Local and Transatlantic Perspectives
  • East/Central European and Canadian Models of Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives
  • National,  cultural and linguistic identity dilemmas in East/Central Europe and Canada
  • Minor Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe/Central European Cultures as Minor Cultures in Canada
  • Indigenous cultures of East/Central Europe
  • Dialogues between East/Central European Diasporas and Indigenous cultures of Canada
  • Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics of Representation of East/Central European Cultures at Home and in Diaspora/Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics of Representation of the Cultures of Canada  in East/Central Europe
  • Postcolonial, Decolonial and Postdependence Perspectives: Comparative Approaches to East/Central Europe and Canada
  • East/Central European Contribution to Canadian Cultural Canon/The Impact of Cultures of Canada  upon East/Central Europe
  • Intercultural, Transcultural and Crosscultural Dialogue Inside and Out of East/Central Europe
  • Representations of Race and Gender in East/Central Europe and Canada
  • Between the Idea of the Open State and Nation State Xenophobia: East/Central Europe and Canadian Models
  • East/Central Europe, Canada, and Representations of Islam
  • Religion and Identity Discourses in  East/Central Europe and in East/Central European Diasporas in Canada
  • Literary and Artistic Responses to the Radicalization of Central Europe in the Face of Humanitarian Crises

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (alphabetically):

University of Silesia: Paweł Jędrzejko, Eugenia Sojka, Jolanta Tambor
University of Alberta: Wacław Osadnik, Joseph Patrouch

Deadline for abstracts:  February 1st ,  2017

Notification of acceptance:  February 15th 2017

Proposal submission website.  

(i) Individual proposals should be 300-400 words.

(ii) For panels, in English, French or Polish, please send the title of the panel and a 250-word presentation explaining the overall focus together with a 300-400 word abstract for each participant.

(iii) Please attach a short bio to your conference paper proposal.

All files should be clearly marked with the applicants’ name.

Conference fee  – covering welcome reception, all conference materials, coffee breaks, and conference banquet

100,00  Euro – full time faculty

50,00 Euro – students and part-time faculty

 

 

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Conference Announcement: „Citizenship and Literature: Past Concerns, Present Issues, Future Trajectories“

Feb 20 – 21, 2017, English Department, University of Münster (Germany)

Since political theorists Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman observed a “return of the citizen,” an “explosion of interest in the concept of citizenship” in the political and social sciences in 1994, the concept has been heatedly debated as a tool of critical analysis not only in the social sciences but also – and increasingly so – in literary and cultural studies. In contrast to political theory, we might however speak not so much of a ‘return’ of the citizen in literary and cultural studies, but of an arrival of the citizen and of citizenship in the early 2000s: Questions of representing and reconceptualizing the relationship between individuals, groups, and the nation (as well as the nation state) found citizenship increasingly a productive term to negotiate questions of belonging, affiliations and membership and to reflect on the ways in which literatures negotiate, question, envision, or deconstruct notions of citizenship in a variety of historical and geographical contexts.

This conference takes this ongoing debate as a starting point for a reflection on the past, present, and future of citizenship both in literature and in literary studies. By bringing together scholars well established in literary citizenship studies and related fields such as law-and-literature, diaspora studies, literature and nation, and literary sovereignty, it will provide a platform for critically exploring potential future trajectories, both thematically and with regard to ‘citizenship’ as a concern for literary studies. Thematically, it looks at the role and function of citizenship in literature – as a topic, as a metaphor of belonging, or as a concept capturing the function of literature as part of societal discourses. At the same time, it also critically re-evaluates the theoretical discussion of citizenship as a concept in literary and cultural studies. Thus, the conference sets out to reflect both on the ways in which literatures negotiate, question, envision, or deconstruct notions of citizenship in a variety of historical and geographical contexts and on the question of the analytical benefit of citizenship as a category of scholarly inquiry.

In order to leave ample time for discussion, the number of speakers has been kept deliberately small. The following scholars will present at this conference:

  • Brook Thomas (University of California at Irvine): “The Citizen-Soldier in 19th-Century US Literature”
  • Beth Piatote (University of California at Berkeley): “Sound, Sonic Warfare, and Citizenship: Notes from Standing Rock and The Surrounded”
  • David Chariandy (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby): “Black Writing and the Limits of Citizenship”
  • Mita Banerjee (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz): “Writing the Citizen: Citizenship, Life Writing and Disability in Jason Kingsley’s and Mitchell Levitz’s Count Us In”
  • Peter Schneck (Osnabrück University): “Natural Law and Civil Savages: Early Modern Conceptions of Colonial Civility and Citizenship”
  • Carol Fadda-Conrey (Syracuse University): “Narrative Cartographies of Citizenships and Rights in the Age of US Empire”
  • Tamar Hess (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): “Dystopia and Citizenship in Contemporary Israeli Fantasy Literature”
  • Mark Stein (Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Münster): “‘Remember the Ship in Citizenship’: Migrant Writers, Porous Texts”

Further Information and Registration
About the program and other relevant information, please consult the WWU American Studies homepage. To register, please send a short e-mail with the header ‘registration literature and citizenship’ stating your name and affiliation to this email address. There are no conference fees but in order to facilitate our planning, please register at your earliest convenience.

Travel Bursary for Doctoral Students
For doctoral students working in literary citizenship studies or related fields who would like to attend this conference, a limited number of travel bursaries are available. If you are interested, please send your CV and a short abstract of your project to this e-mail address by January 30, 2017.

Contact
Prof. Dr. Katja Sarkowsky
Chair of American Studies
English Department
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
E-Mail.