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CFP: Ukrainian Immigration to Canada: From Post Independence to Post War

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 25. November 2022

Conference Dates: 21 & 22 April 2023

Conference Location: University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)

Deadline for individual papers and panels/roundtable proposals: January 11, 2023

Notification of acceptance: 25 January 2023

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukraine’s declaration of independence in 1991, immigration from Ukraine to Canada has steadily risen, to a point that some have labeled it the „Fourth Wave“. Yet, despite comprising more than 69,000 arrivals, the post-1991 wave of Ukrainians in Canada has been little-understood and certainly understudied. Nonetheless, a closer analysis of the household make-up, labour market participation, and patterns of social mobility of this group has in recent years become seen as imperative to understanding a meaningful faction of Canadian society, and there continues to be research conducted on this topic (Isajiw, Satzewich, & Duvalko, 2002; Lynn, 2014; Khanenko-Friesen, Satzewich, & Hwang, 2021).

The renewed full scale attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine launched 24 February 2022 unleashed unprecedented migratory flows from Ukraine. More than eleven million in total have been displaced and millions have left Ukraine for safety. Already tens of thousands have arrived in Canada as Canada opened up its border to fleeing Ukrainians. Yet, the unprecedented Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) and the unknowns of its Ukrainian issuees‘ long-term residency status has only underlined the importance of comprehending past Ukrainian migration and settlement trends.

As the organizing committee of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada: From Post Independence to Post War, we invite scholars working in various disciplines, including but not limited to Ukrainian studies, Canadian studies, sociology, history, anthropology, and political and cultural studies to address the following topics:

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CFP: Nah! On the Possibilities of Ongoing Refusals

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 25. November 2022

Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA)
Conference Date: May 29–31, 2023
Location: York University

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Deadline: January 15, 2023

Our Theme: Nah! On The Possibilities of Ongoing Refusals
The annual meeting of the Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA) will take place in person May 29 – 31, 2023 as part of the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 27 – June 2, 2023) at York’s Keele and Glendon Campuses in Toronto. The theme for Congress 2023 will be Reckonings and Re–Imaginings. Drawing on the lessons of Black Lives Matter, the Federal Anti–racism Secretariat, Idle No More, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Congress 2023 aims to focus on what is needed to live in non–hierarchical relationships that can truly honour our human differences, while protecting the land, water and air we all need to live together. This theme also reflects the vision of Associate Professor Andrea Davis, Academic Convenor for Congress 2023, and her collaboration with members of the York University community.

Our conference committee has chosen the exclamation ‘Nah’ as an expression, response, and exhortation of Black refusals. As a colloquial use of language, our call aims to push the
boundaries of how we contend with reckonings and re–imaginings in a cultural context where Blackness remains ignored, challenged, and in some cases, diminished by pervasive anti–Blackness, both in formal and informal settings. The experience of Blackness related to (body)language – as a form of expression, political action, and meaning–making – is invoked in our call. Refusal is broadly understood to encapsulate refusals of form (language/artistic expression/media), “in the break” (Moten, 2003) from disciplinary boundaries, and operating outside/within the context of neoliberal diversity and inclusion frameworks. Refusal is taken to be a “generative stance” (Tuck & Yang, 2014) which encourages radical imaginings beyond established boundaries. Through imaginative articulations of ‘Nah’ we aim to delve into and depart from past/ongoing practices that precipitate the need for reckonings and reimaginings.
The possibility of ongoing refusals acknowledged by a nod, an intentional and explicit or subtle rejection, a calling deixa pra lá, or a pleading non mais, all create space for counter–narratives and Black re–existence.
How can we move the conversation on Black lives beyond rhetoric to actionable strategies that aim for structural change? How might ‘Nah’ be a productive response to inadequate policies, practices, and politics? Where are the structures, spaces, sounds of Black lives currently operating that deserve recognition and could serve as templates for intersectional justice? Can we even begin to reckon and imagine when much remains to be named and acknowledged?

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CFP for Chapers in edited volume – Communities Falling Apart: Continuities and Changes in Multicultural Settlements

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 25. November 2022

Deadline: December 31, 2022

Vernon Press seeks chapter contributions for a forthcoming edited volume titled “Communities Falling Apart: Continuities and Changes in Multicultural Settlements”.

Multiculturalism is arguably a fundamental aspect of contemporary western society that has garnered diverse reception. It has been the source of diversity (positive) and social disunity (negative). Multiculturalism stands as the most recent development of race relations in ethnic studies; therefore, to study the contemporary theory of race, it is vital to consider cultural diversity as a constitutive aspect of that theory. Multiculturalism is not only a descriptive or even normative concept; instead, it is more appropriate to consider it as a pragmatic concept. Accordingly, to understand race and race relations, multiculturalism is vital in deciphering some, often neglected, aspects of ethnic and racial experiences, not only in particular settings like Britain but equally elsewhere in Western liberal communities.

When Nathan Glazer declared that “we are all multiculturalists now” (1997), he may have meant that multiculturalism has become a tangible fact and an irreversible reality. This collection builds on such an assumption and argues that the “factuality of diversity” made multiculturalism an inevitable fact of everyday experiences in ethnocultural communities. However, the multicultural settlement has come under increasing backlash from different theoretical, cultural, and political orientations (Vertovec and Kymlicaka, 2010). This collection attempts to trace the aspects of such a backlash, its nature, and consequences in the various experiences of Western societies (Britain, USA, Canada, etc.). Equally, it is argued that the novel discourses of post-multiculturalism bear seeds of continuities and hanges of the multicultural settlement.

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