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Visiting Fellowships British Library, Eccles Centre for American Studies, London/UK

https://www.bl.uk/eccles-centre/fellowships-and-awards/fellowships

Deadline: 16 December 2022

These awards are offered to help support individuals wishing to visit London to use the British Library’s collections relating to the Americas (North America, the Caribbean, Central America, South America).

Who are the Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowships for?

We are keen to hear from all kinds of serious researchers who have the potential to produce something new, exciting, challenging and different as a result of their research into the British Library’s Americas collections. As well as applicants from academic backgrounds working on scholarly research, we also welcome independent researchers, creative practitioners working on artistic and cultural projects, and journalists, educators and scientists working on public policy problems. This means that research towards a doctoral degree, an academic article, a poetry collection, a policy paper, a classroom resource, a theatre production, a body of painting or sculpture, a new fashion collection…all these kinds of projects and more will be considered.

Applicants must be over 18 years of age but can be based anywhere in the world.

What can I research as part of the Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship programme?

There are four research themes that we are particularly excited for researchers to explore through our collections.

  • Sounds and music of the Americas
  • Americans beyond the Americas
  • American environments
  • Religion and spiritualty in the Americas

Researchers are strongly encouraged to apply with projects that align with one of these themes. If you need to use the British Library’s Americas collections for an exciting and original project that falls outside the scope of these themes you may apply as a ‘wildcard’.

You can find out more about the research themes in this blog.

How much are the Fellowships, and how long do they last?

Applicants may apply for up to the following amounts, depending on where they are based:

  • The UK (within the M25) – £1,000
  • The UK (outside the M25) – £2,000
  • Europe (excluding the UK) – £2,500
  • Rest of World – £3,000

It is expected that this award will support around a month’s work in the Library, either taken continuously, or as a number of smaller trips. The 2023 awards will last for 18 months, for those in receipt of a 2023 Fellowship, the research trip(s) will need to take place between 1 April 2023 and must be completed by 30 September 2024.How do I apply?

Applications for the 2023 competition can be submitted from Friday 8 October. We strongly encourage all potential applicants to read our Notes for Applicants document before submitting an application. All submissions must be made via our digital form. The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm GMT on Friday 16 December 2022.

All applicants are invited to submit a separate Equality, Diversity and Inclusion form that will be stored separately from your main application form, and which will be completely anonymous with no identifying information about you.

If you have any questions, please contact us at eccles-centre@bl.uk.

Further information

The British Library’s main catalogue, Explore, as well as smaller, specialist catalogues for archives and manuscripts, sound recording and photographs, can be found at the Library’s homepage, www.bl.uk. The Eccles Centre does not house a collection separate to that of the British Library, and the bibliographies on the Eccles Centre webpages provide a snapshot of some of the items in the British Library collection.

Enquiries regarding the British Library’s North American holdings can be directed in the first instance to the Eccles Centre or the Library’s Reference Enquiry Team.

Contact Info:

Dr Philip Abraham, Visiting Fellowship Manager

The Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library

Contact Email: eccles-centre@bl.uk

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CFP International Workshop: Food and Body in Colonial Contexts in Pre-modern Times (1600-1900)

University of Regensburg, Regensburg/Germany

May 4-6, 2023

Deadline: November 15, 2022

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-130213?language=en

Colonization and exploration of the non-European territories was an inherently bodily experience. Arrival to new lands meant encountering strange climates, nature, and bodies. Those physical differences had to be given a theoretical footing. Food and diet became central arguments to underscore and explain the physical and cultural differences between Europeans and indigenous people, as well as to claim Europeans’ supremacy over the inhabitants of the conquered lands. Indigenous foodways have typically been depicted as inedible, unclean, disgusting, uncivilized and improper for a European body, the maintenance of which became one of the primary imperial concerns. Thus, the physical survival of Europeans on colonial frontiers was tightly intertwined with the preservation of their cultural and religious (most often Christian) identities. Failure to keep colonial difference in place produced concerns about “barbarization”, “going native” and “hybridization” that were believed to endanger colonial regimes and the legitimacy of their claims of physical, cultural and racial supremacy over the colonized bodies.

Notwithstanding the efforts to maintain a dietary distance between newcomers and indigenous people, colonialism inevitably resulted in alteration in diets on both sides. While European foodways were often used as instruments of cultivating untamed lands as well as “civilizing” the manners of its inhabitants, many indigenous plants and recipes were adopted into European diets, opening a path to what subsequently became called the Columbian exchange and colonial food chains. In addition to foodstuffs and products, indigenous knowledge about the nourishing environment has been expropriated and integrated into the European body of knowledge.

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CFP Association for Art History – Session: Against the Nation: Rethinking Canadian Art History in the World

Deadline for submissions: November 4, 2022

2023 Annual Conference

University College London, London/UK

12-14 April 2023

https://forarthistory.org.uk/conference/2023-annual-conference/

Session: Against the Nation: Rethinking Canadian Art History in the World

The history of Canadian art is a transnational history. Canadian art historiography, however, is strongly rooted in national narratives. As a settler-colonial nation, the country itself cuts across dispersed territories of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. Taken one way, the prefix trans in transnational — which signals many possible relationships across, between, and beyond geopolitical national boundaries, as well as those that fundamentally challenge or change them — describes the material and epistemic violence of Canada’s formation. Taken another way, it offers a methodology for unsettling colony-to-nation narratives of Canadian art history and for thinking about the relationships between art, nation, and nationhood, and between local, regional, and global cultures, in new ways. Reframing Canadian art history in light of global networks focuses on the exchange and flow of ideas, peoples, artistic connections, and institutions beyond political borders.

Please see full call for papers for submission guidelines: https://forarthistory.org.uk/conference/2023-annual-conference/

Contact Info:

Jennifer Kennedy, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, jen.kennedy@queensu.ca

Devon Smither, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, devon.smither@uleth.ca

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Journée d’étude « Modernités connectées : Québec-Allemagne 1900-2000. Transferts littéraires, culturels et intellectuels » (en présentiel)

(projet soutenu par le DAAD, sous l’égide du Centre canadien d’études allemandes et
européennes [CCEAE] de l’Université de Montréal)
Le vendredi 4 novembre 2022, Salle Lothar–Baier
Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes
Université de Montréal

Organisée par Robert Dion (UQAM), Louise–Hélène Filion (University of Michigan)
et Hans–Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität des Saarlandes)

Dans le cadre du projet « Modernités connectées : Québec–Allemagne 1900–2000 », qui
met l’accent sur les transferts entre l’Allemagne et le Québec dans les domaines de la litté–
rature, de la culture et des idées, nous organisons une première journée d’études visant à
faire émerger certaines configurations paradigmatiques structurant les rapports entre les
deux aires culturelles en cause. Résolument exploratoire, cette journée d’études compor–
tera deux volets : le premier s’attachera surtout aux agents des transferts culturels, cher–
chant à mettre au jour les médiations opérées par certains « passeurs culturels » entre le
Québec et l’Allemagne (Robert Lepage, Thomas Ostermeier et la Schaubühne de Berlin,
ou Lothar Baier et Hans–Jürgen Greif, par exemple) ; le second portera plus particulière–
ment sur les formes de réception productive d’une culture par l’autre. Dans ce second volet
seront privilégiés, mais sans exclusive, les cas jusqu’ici plus négligés, comme les rapports duréalisateur Louis Godbout avec Goethe et ceux de Normand de Bellefeuille avec Thomas
Bernhard, notamment.

10h00 Notes d’introduction
Robert Dion et Hans–Jürgen Lüsebrink

10h30 Autres lettres de Berlin : regards croisés sur l’Allemagne dans les
chroniques d’Arthur Buies et la correspondance de voyage de Fer–
dinand–Phileas Canac–Marquis
Hélène Destrempes (Université de Moncton)

11h15 Lothar Baier (1942–2004), passeur transculturel. Trajectoires d’un
journaliste et intellectuel allemand entre la France, l’Allemagne et le
Québec
Hans–Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität des Saarlandes)

12h00 Déjeuner

13h45 La focalisation structurante comme mode d’appropriation de
l’œuvre de Thomas Bernhard : l’exemple de « La maladie des
dénombrements » de Normand de Bellefeuille
Louise–Hélène Filion (University of Michigan)

14h30 Un couple sous influence ou « Le roi des Aulnes » revisité dans Mont
Foster (2019) de Louis Godbout
Sophie Boyer (Université Bishop’s)

15h15 Pause café
15h30 Mémoires palimpsestes des Heimat perdues : la Prusse–Orientale et
la RDA comme Erinnerungsorte dans La fiancée américaine d’Éric
Dupont
Michel Mallet (Université de Moncton)

16h15 Comment rendre compte des connivences culturelles? Le cas de Plus
haut que les flammes de Louise Dupré
Robert Dion (Université du Québec à Montréal/CRLCQ)

17h00 Discussion finale

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Veranstaltung des AmerikaHaus NRW und NAS Uni Bonn: From ‚Indianthusiasm‘ to Indigenous Studies: Personal Reflection After 50 years mit Prof. Dr. Hartmut Lutz (Universität Greifswald)

Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2022, 18 – 20 Uhr
Hauptgebäude, IAAK, 1.004 (Raum A)
Regina-Pacis-Weg 3
53113 Bonn

Looking back on over half a century of personal commitment to Native American and Canadian Indigenous Studies, I shall address the conflicted issue of German ‚Indianthusiasm‘ (deutsche Indianertümelei). Unlearning popular romantic stereotypes and racial prejudices may clear the way for a respectful and decolonizing approach, which heeds the claim by Native American, First Nation, Métis, and Inuit scholars and artists: „Nothing about us without us!“ Given the ecological disaster we are facing today, Europe and settler societies appear in dire need to learn from Indigenous knowledge keepers and storytellers to find ways for implementing Indigenous environmental ethics.