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International Conference, jointly organized by Université Laval and Université de Sherbrooke, March 23-24, 2017, Morrin Centre, Quebec City, Canada

Anniversaries invite us to reflect on where we have come from and where we wish to go, to make connections across time, and to ponder the very nature of time itself. With Canada marking its 150 years in 2017 and with the Université de Sherbrooke’s Comparative Canadian Literature Graduate Student Conference celebrating its fifteenth iteration, the organizers are inviting presenters to explore the theme of „Canadian Literatures and Time.“ While one or more meanings of time may figure as a theme, symbol, or motif in a given work or may be highlighted literally or metaphorically through setting, time often also functions as a feature of narrative or poetic technique. Inherently in flux, time is bound up in how scholars trace and reformulate literary histories as well as in how writers narrate and recuperate individual or collective histories or stage shifting identities. This conference is open to a range of theoretical and critical approaches that offer insight into an aspect of the manifold manifestations of time in literature. Papers must take a comparative approach and include at least one work originating within Canada, but there are no restrictions on the national origin of the work(s) with which it is compared. Comparisons between literature and other art forms are welcome. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

• The changing field of Comparative Canadian Literature: retrospectives, trends, new directions
• Literary periods, currents, influences: transnational or intra-national relationships, legacies
• (Re)constructuring or contesting identities: past, present, future
• Preserving, recuperating, rewriting histories: re-storying, revisiting the archive
• Translating the language of, or notions of, time
• Retranslations: revising and updating translations over time
• Evolution of literary uses of language
• Time and strategies ofr self-representation
• Linear and nonlinear time, breaking time, anachronisms, imparting „timelessness“ etc.
• Marking time, poetic tempo, narrative pacing, plotting time
• Temporal power, the measure and mismeasure of time, „doing time,“ lost time
• Mythological time, dream time, bending time vs. historical time, real time
• Foundational myths and narratives
• Coming-of-age or turning points: nations, literatures, narratives, artists, etc.
• Gerontology, mortality, aging, decay, death
• Passage of time and renewal: seasons, tides, cycles
• Time travel, imagined futures, or futurism
• Memory, traume, silence, war
• Hauntings, echoes, palimpsests
• Chaning nature(s): extinction, metamorphosis, reincarnation

The conference will be held on March 23-24, 2017 at the Morrin centre and ams to be a welcoming gatherind place for young scholars interested in comparative approaches to Canadian Literatures in English and French. The organizers invite graduate students (MA, PhD, as well as advanced undergraduates) from various disciplines (Literature, Translation Studies, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, History, etc.) to submit proposals.

Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a short biography of 150 words to this email-address. Include your name, affiliation and degree program, e-mail address, equipment needs, as well as the title of yur presentation and upload the document as both PDF and Word attachments.

The deadline for proposals is January 27, 2017. You will be informed of the decision by February 25, 2017.

International Conference, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, November 13 – 14, 2017, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

While the mission of CANADA 150 is to celebrate Confederation in 1867, this conference foregrounds the commemoration of this moment of Canada’s history with a look at the early exploration and mapping of the territory that now forms the country. Proposals for well-illustrated papers are sought that address all aspects of the exploration and cartography of these lands, from Indigenous sources describing the encouter with Europeans to European and Settler explorations ranging in date from the voyage of John Cabot in 1497 to the Treaty of 1763.

Themes that the organizers hope will inspire proposals include the contributions of Indigenous mapping and geographical knowledge to European cartography and reports; the role of geographical myths in furthering exploration; how the instructions given to explorers changed over time; the mapping of natural resources; exploration on waterways versus exploration by land; the evolution of the cartography of specific regions over time; and how place and mapping influenced Canadian identity and culture.

Please send the title and abstract (max. 250 words) of your proposed paper by March 15, 2017, to Lauren Beck and Chet van Duzer.