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CfP: The Toronto School: Then – Now – Next

International Conference, October 14 – 16, 2016, Toronto (ON), Canada

Between the 1930s and the 1970s, a community of intellectuals coalesced in the city of Toronto to discuss and investigate communication as a complex, interdisciplinary process that structures individuals, cultures, and societies. This scholarly community, that emerged in and around the University of Toronto achieved international recognition for its innovative and trans-disciplinary approaches to the evolving societal challenges.

„The Toronto School: Then – Now – Next“-Conference aims to bring together international scholars to engage in dialogue on the origins, rise, decline and the rebirth of the so-called Toronto School. Discussion will focus on its pioneers, champions but also its critics. It will examine the extent to which the Toronto School has provided a legacy that continues to offer insight on crucial and systemic issues facing contemporary society across various disciplines.

General areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • New understandings, approaches, comparative assessments of the major figures associated with the golden age of the Toronto School, including for instance Eric Havelock, Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Northrop Frye, Edmund Carpenter, Walter J. Ong, Tom Easterbrook, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, Carl Williams, Glenn Gould, and Harley Parker
  • Innovative interpretations of theories in their historical context, and ideas emanating from the School and its intellecutal tradition
  • Associations between core theories/ideas of the Toronto School of Communication and other schools/traditions, in the Humanities, in the Social Sciences and contemporary culture
  • Germination of media studies in 1950s Toronto
  • Canadian approaches to communications study and their impact on the twentieth-century intellectual debate internationally
  • Role of communication in the history of civilization, and in the structuring of human cultures and the mind
  • Time-biased and space-biased dialectical approaches applied to cultural ecology
  • Sensorial, cognitive, and behavioural implications of the medium
  • Interplay of orality and literary in today’s media environment
  • Poetic, symbolic, and mythical thinking in contemporary cultures
  • Aesthetic forms as a mode of critique and interpretation of cultural artifacts
  • Interpretation, extension, and application of the theories central to thinkers from the Toronto School

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts by June 30, 2016, using exclusively EasyChair.

Abstracts of between 1.000 and 1.500 words, in English, and presented in pdf format should be uploaded into EasyChair along with: title of proposed presentation, five keywords, and for each author their name, title, position, name afffiliated institution and a short biographical statement (40 – 50 words each). In addition details for the corresponding author should be provided.

In case of acceptance, author(s) will be asked also to provide a condenses abstract (200 words for inclusion in the program), and to present the paper at the Conference (see registration deadline for authros).

A condensed abstract of each paper and a biographical statement of presenting author(s) will be published in the Conference Program.

All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee.

For more information, please have a look here.

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Aktuelles Neuerscheinungen

New Publication: Spaces of Difference: Conflicts and Cohabitation

IRTG Diversity Publication Series: New Essay Collection

Spaces_of_DifferenceSpaces of Difference, the second volume in the IRTG Diversity’s publication series, discusses the construction of transcultural spaces and the representation and negotiation of diversity though the analytical lenses of narratives, practices and politics of diversity. The multi-disciplinary contributions ot this volume address four broader research fields:
1. the entangled and contested (hi)stories of diversity;
2. migration and the creation of transcultural spaces;
3. practices and politics of belonging; and
4. the dynamics of confrontation and cohabitation in spaces of difference.
The research presented in this volume combines approaches from history, political science, sociology, migration stuides, and literature.

Published in 2016, 260 pages, 32,90 €.
ISBN: 978-3-8309-3385-4

For more information, please visit the publisher’s website.

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Ringvorlesung Canadian Ecologies – Écologies Canadiennes – Kanadische Ökologien

Das Marburger Zentrum für Kanada-Studien lädt in diesem Sommersemester zu einer Ringvorlesung zum Thema „Canadian Ecologies“ ein.

An zehn Terminen werden nationale und internationale Wissenschaftler aus unterschiedlichen Fachgebieten interessante deutsch- oder englischsprachige Vorträge zu ihrer Forschung halten. Somit bietet die Ringvorlesung Gelegenheit, sich dem allgemein gehaltenen Thema „Canadian Ecologies“ aus verschiedenen Richtungen zu nähern und es aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven zu betrachten. Zu den breitgefächerten Themen- und Forschungsgebieten zählen beispielsweise Literaturwissenschaft, (indigene) Kunst, Geographie, Medienwissenschaft und Geschichte.

Die Vorlesung findet dienstags von 18 bis 20 Uhr in der Wilhelm-Röpke-Straße 6D, Raum 01D05 statt. Nähere Angaben zu Terminen und Themen finden Sie hier.

 

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Aktuelles Ausschreibungen

Doctoral Research Position at the IRTG Diversity (Trier/Saarbrücken)

The International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces” (Trier, Montréal, Saarbrücken), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), is accepting applications for

1 doctoral research position (TVL 13, 50%)

at the University of Trier or at Saarland University

for the time until Sept. 30, 2017, starting at the earliest date possible,
with a possible contract renewal for 18 more months
pending the continuation of funding by the DFG

The International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Diversity” is a joint German-Canadian doctoral education program of the University of Trier, Saarland University, and the Université de Montréal. On the German side, it has its offices at the University of Trier. The IRTG “Diversity” proposes an innovative research program in the contested fields of diversity, multiculturalism, and transnationalism by examining paradigmatic changes and historical transformations in interpreting multicultural realities in North America (Montréal, Québec, Canada, North America) and Europe (Saar-Lor-Lux, Germany, France, Europe) since the 18th century. Focusing on dynamic processes that engender diversity, the IRTG Diversity’s analytical framework offers new perspectives for transnational and area studies as well as cross-cultural research. Through the transversal analytic lenses of politics, practices, and narratives, the IRTG investigates the mediation and translation of cultural differences in micro-, meso- and macro-level empirical constellations. Following the principle of herméneutique croisée, our researchers in Europe focus on the sliding-scaled spatial zones of Montréal – Québec – Canada – North America, while our researchers in Canada focus on the Saar-Lor-Lux region – Germany/France – Europe. We thus are especially interested in PhD projects focusing empirically on Canada and/or Quebec. Projects with a comparative approach are also encouraged.

Deadline: April 15, 2016.

For more information and the complete Call for Applications, see the IRTG’s Website.

 

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CfP: Mid-Atlantic New England Council for Canadian Studies Biennial Conference

Mid-Atlantic New England Council for Canadian Studies Biennial Conference
Portland Regency Hotel and Spa, Portland, ME/USA, October 20-22, 2016

The Mid-Atlantic-New England Council for Canadian Studies (MANECCS) is currently accepting papers from all academic disciplines for the 35th Anniversary Conference to be held at the Portland Regency Hotel and Spa in Portland, Maine between October 20 and 22, 2016.  https://maneccs2016.wordpress.com/.

MANECCS is the premier Canadian Studies organization in the region and is affiliated with the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS). Over the past 35 years MANECCS has brought together scholars from across the academic disciplines and from both public and private sectors in education, business, and government. At these conferences scholars explore complex topics relevant to Canada and its position in the world; past, present, and future. The organizers have an exciting biennial conference planned for their 35th anniversary year.

This year will seek to focus specifically on urban and industrial landscapes. The organizers are especially interested in panels that deal with urbanization, sprawl, decline, reattribution, urban and industrial living and working places, urban recreation and social organization, crime and policing, and any other topic related to Canada’s industrialization and urbanization. *Proposals on other topics related to Canadian history and studies are welcome.*  Papers from established scholars, emerging scholars, and graduate students are encouraged.

Please submit a 250-word paper proposal or a 500-word panel proposal no later than June 1, 2016 to Brian Payne, Associate Professor History, Bridgewater State University (email). Please keep apprised of all developments at: https://maneccs2016.wordpress.com/.