Kategorie: Aktuelles

Deadline for abstracts: Jan. 15, 2023

Deadline for essays April 15, 2023

When we are in the throes of major crises, from the global pandemic to a pending climate apocalypse, thinking about a different tomorrow may feel impossible. Designing alternative futures has become one of the central cultural tasks of the twenty-first century, and Indigenous North American writers, visual artists, curators, comedians, film makers, video game designers, and web developers are at the forefront of this movement. From pre-contact stories to contemporary science fiction, Indigenous cultures abound with visions of the future as sites of “survivance” (Gerald Vizenor). While settler colonialist imaginaries of progress have, for the longest time, strategically displaced Native cultures into a fixed, containable past, Indigenous literatures and cultures not only successfully defy these mechanisms of Othering but offer sustainable variants of futurity in powerful networks of transnational exchange.

Simultaneously, futurity is not only a concept and theme, but an active process towards empowerment and social change, a methodology that foregrounds and centers Indigenous knowledges. As Mvskoke geographer Laura Harjo puts it, Indigenous futurity is “the enactment of theories and practices that activate our ancestors’ unrealized possibilities, the act of living out the futures we wish for in a contemporary moment, and the creation of the conditions for these futures.”¹

Deadline: January 15, 2023

The editors of the American Review of Canadian Studies invite submissions for the journal’s biennial Thomas O. Enders Special Issue on Canada–U.S. Relations, which they plan to publish in late 2023. Full–length article submissions from all disciplines and from interdisciplinary perspectives are welcome, but they should, in some way, focus on the issue’s main theme: the past, present, or future of Canada–U.S. Relations.
The Enders Special Issue is named in honor of the former United States Ambassador to Canada (1976–81). Among the many interests Thomas Enders pursued during his distinguished career in foreign service was the promotion of Canadian Studies in his own country. The Enders Foundation, which he established, provides funding for the publication of this biennial special issue.
Deadline for submissions for the 2023 Enders Special Issue of ARCS: January 15, 2023. All completed article manuscripts for this special issue should follow ARCS’s regular guidelines for length and citation format. See the “Instructions for Authors” page on the ARCS website for details.
For more information, contact:
Andrew Holman or Brian Payne, Co–editors, American Review of Canadian Studies
arcs@bridgew.edu

Deadline: December 1, 2022

Women have been fundamentally affected by war and armed conflict, as victims and participants, throughout the long history of the lands that eventually became Canada. However, beyond the celebration of heroines like Laura Secord and Madeleine de Verchères (meant to be read as exceptional) they remain largely absent from our historical memory. To address this deficiency, we invite scholars of any historically-minded discipline and any geopolitical focus (as long as it touches on the predecessor territories of today’s Canada) to propose chapters for a new edited collection that examines female experiences of war and conflict on Turtle Island prior to the First World War.

At the local level, life in wholly-Indigenous territories, early contact zones and borderlands, New France, British North America, and Canada (1867-1914) was frequently marked by war and lesser forms of armed conflict. Meanwhile, war and territorial conquest were major forces shaping the growth, contraction, and interaction of European empires, their individual colonies, and the Indigenous nations they strove to displace or destroy. By casting a wide temporal and geographic net, this collection will draw together diverse perspectives that explore how women were affected by war and conflict and how war and conflict were shaped by ideas of gender, before 1914. As such, it will bring women a newfound visibility within the conflict-ridden histories of Indigenous and settler societies in the place we now know as Canada.

Possible topics include:

The roles and experiences of women in Indigenous ways of war
The significance of shifting borders for women, and/or borderlands in wartime
Women as military wives, nurses, and other careworkers or camp followers
Women’s experiences living, working, or sojourning at military bases and fortifications
Women’s involvement in economic, political, cultural, social (etc.) aspects of war
Wartime girlhood
Material history and/or artefacts of women and war
Women in popular memory, historiography, and/or artistic portrayals of war and conflict
Acadian women in wartime, or as Grand Dérangement refugees
The Loyalists (white and/or Black) in wartime, or as American Revolution refugees
Women and specific conflicts (Seven Years’ War, War of 1812, uprisings of 1837-38, 1869-70, 1885, Fenian Raids, South African War, etc.)

Interested scholars should send a short (250-500 words) abstract of their proposed chapter and a one-page CV by December 1, 2022 to either co-editor: Dr. Amy Shaw (University of Lethbridge)

amy.shaw@uleth.ca or Dr. Sarah Glassford (University of Windsor) sarah.glassford@uwindsor.ca .

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by February 15, 2023.
Contact Info: amy.shaw@uleth.ca