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CFP ExπRE: Going Off in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture (online)

ExRe(y) 2022

December 1-2, 2022 (MS Teams)

Deadline: August 31, 2022

Department of English and American Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin and Department of American Literature and Culture at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin are pleased to announce the third ExRe(y) conference. A two-day international conference “ExπRE: Going Off in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture” will be held online on December 1-2, 2022.

We invite proposals for papers and panels that focus on the topic of the (broadly understood) expiration and waning in American and Canadian literature and culture of the last two decades.

Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

  • time and passing
  • ends and resolutions (break-ups, disintegration, cliffhangers, happy endings, closure, points ofno return)
  • illness, aging, death
  • end-of-the-world narratives/scenarios
  • regress, ruin, decay
  • waning, fading, and effacement (of hopes, memories, scars, power, confidence, narratives, boundaries, divisions)
  • failure and disappointment
  • trends and fashion
  • validity, legal status, rights
  • trash, debris, and the poetics of waste
  • things that go off (food, alarms, bombs)
  • adaptations, remakes, golden oldies, Netflix cancellations

and

  • the many faces of π (irrationality, transcendence, infinity, bye-bye, Miss American Pie)

Confirmed plenary speakers:

Prof. Caren Irr (Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA)

Prof. Aneta Dybska (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland)

For the conference publication we are pleased to announce a special issue of a peer-reviewed open access academic journal Roczniki Humanistyczne (2024), indexed, among others, in Web of Science, ERIH Plus, and Scopus.

Titled abstracts of up to 250 words should be sent to exreyconference@gmail.com by 31 August 2022. All submissions must include a 100-word biographical statement.

The conference will be held online via MS Teams. The conference fee is 150PLN/35€.

Further information is available on the conference website at www.exrey.umcs.lublin.pl.

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CFP Crises and Turns: Continuities and Discontinuities in American Culture

The 27th Biennial NAAS Conference in Uppsala May 25-27, 2023

Deadline: September 1, 2022

While it appears to be perennially tempting to see one’s own time as exceptional and unprecedented, it is nevertheless safe to say that our present time is perceived by many as characterized by crises of different kinds (democratic, humanitarian, environmental) to an unusuallyhigh degree. As a result, the stakes are high when it comes to identifying causes and cures and the political, media and academic communities are all concerned in their different ways with constructing narratives that make sense of what is happening: Backlash, renewal, apocalypse? Whatever their political, ideological, or theoretical underpinnings or agendas, all mobilize tropes of either continuity –understood for instance as progress, degeneration, or intensification– or discontinuity– understood for instance as a break with previous values, a dramatic shifting, or an unprecedented development– or of both at the same time.

In a specifically North American context these narratives draw on a long tradition of speaking of the nation as renewing itself, as becoming again what it was (meant to be). In our academic contexts, a number of “turns,”often framed as oriented away from traditional human-centered or rationalist concerns, can be understood as a response to a sense of crisis and raise new questions for the field of American studies. A focus on continuities and/or discontinuities provide opportunities for discussing both the specificities of American developments and their place in larger cultural, historical, and political contexts. The 27th biennial NAAS conference welcomes panel and paper proposals that engage with continuities or discontinuities in American social, political, historical, or cultural life or within the field of American studies. We seek contributions in a wide array of disciplines, including, but not limited to history, politics, literature, film and media studies, sociology, art history, visual studies, gender studies, critical race and ethnicity studies, the environmental humanities etc. We also welcome papers on any topic related to American studies. The conference will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden’s first university, located some 70 kms north of Stockholm, easily accessible by train or by flight to Stockholm -Arlanda airport. The conference is open to scholars and students from all countries, but we offer lower registration fees to members of NAAS (Nordic Association for American Studies), EAAS (European Association for American Studies), and ASA (American Studies Association in the U.S.)

In order to submit a paper proposal, please provide us with a title, abstract (200-300 words) , a brief bio , and contact information. In order to submit a panel proposal, in addition to the information listed above for each individual presentation, please provide us with a title for the panel, the name, email address and brief bio of the panel convener, and a description of the topic (200 -500 words).

Submissions should be sent to naasinfo2023@gmail.com.

Deadline for proposals: September 1, 202 2. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the end of November 2022.

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CFP: NeMLA panel on Contemporary Queer and Feminist Writing in Canada

deadline for submissions:  September 1, 2022

contact email: william.brubacher[at]umontreal.ca

Considering recent literary and critical trends in Canada, this panel aims to provide a space for scholarship on the evolving role of feminist and queer writing in relation to contemporary political and social issues. In a Canadian context where decades of political gains by queer and feminist activists have been accompanied by constant backlash from various conservative political groups, it seems increasingly pressing to emphasize intersections between queer and feminist modes of thinking about identity, sex, sexuality, and binary understandings of gender. From the formative intersectional work of the periodical Tesseraand Sto:lo writer Lee Maracle’s ground-breaking I am Woman, to the contemporary Nishnaabeg perspectives on Indigenous queerness of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Cree writer Billy Ray Belcourt’s poetic work on queer and Indigenous bodies, questions of futurity, agency, aesthetics, and solidarity have animated a wide range of queer and feminist writing within and across cultural and national borders in North America. This panel encourages reflections on how queer thinking informs the work of feminist writers, and, conversely, how feminism informs queer epistemologies. We are especially interested in examining how feminist and queer writers position themselves in relation to their predecessors and contemporaries through interdisciplinary, intersectional, and intertextual approaches. For instance, we aim to trace how previously silenced writers exert resilience through their resistance to erasure despite ongoing and persistent threats to their sexual and political agency.

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Dr Melissa Kelly: International Migration to Small and Mid-Sized Cities: Opportunities, Challenges and a New Agenda for Research (Zoom seminar)

https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/globalmigration/online-seminar-international-migration-to-small-and-mid-sized-cities/

Tuesday 23 August 2022, 12.30-1.30pm (NZST)

Email global.migrations[at]otago.ac.nz for link and info

Dr Melissa Kelly is  Senior Researcher, Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University, Canada

International migration to Canada is largely an urban phenomenon, with most migrants settling in Canada’s largest centres such as Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. Many smaller communities struggle to attract and even more so retain international migrants. This has caused policy makers, community stakeholders and researchers to consider what more can be done to improve immigration and integration outcomes in smaller centres.

This talk argues for the importance of a comparative place-based approach to further understanding of international migration to small and mid- sized centres. It outlines a new agenda for research being jointly developed by scholars at Ryerson University, the University of Otago, Monash University, and the University of Calgary.

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CFP The Artist’s studio experience in Canada / L’expérience de l’atelier d’artiste au Québec et au Canada

Onsite and virtual symposium (Montreal, Université du Québec à Montréal – UQAM)
May 3-5, 2023

Deadline: September 15, 2022 October 15, 2022! (New!)

Organizing Committee
Sandra Fraser, Remai Modern; Dominic Hardy, UQAM; Laurier Lacroix, UQAM
Scientific Committee
Sherry Farrell-Racette, U. of Manitoba; Sandra Fraser, Remai Modern; Dominic Hardy, UQAM; Laurier Lacroix, UQAM; Julia Polyck-O’Neill, York University

As Anne Lafont observes: “Who could believe in the existence of an artist without a work, and a work without a place, even reduced to its tiniest situation?” (Perspective 2014: 4). Having undergone many changes over the centuries, the studio remains essential to artistic production. Often described by artists as a place of one’s own, a laboratory, a cave, we could define the studio as a space to observe the condensation of materials, intuitions, ideas that take shape and become works of art. As Françoise Sullivan reminds us: “the world is concentrated in the studio and then the studio is concentrated in the painting” (Cahiers 1986 :11). The studio could be understood as an incubator that crystallizes the many elements that are called on to give life to the work. Studios have taken many forms since the Renaissance. Types of studios include: 1) a space temporarily rented for the realization of a particular work; 2) a residential space; 3) a specialized space designed to accommodate the equipment necessary for the realization of the work; 4) a collective space where artists, while remaining autonomous in their production, share specialized equipment; 5) a community space where everything is pooled in the context of collective
creations that bear the signature of the workshop; and 6) any combination of elements of these different types.
The layout of the studio, temporary or permanent, requires the same operations. In addition to the realization of the work, involve its management, its distribution and its storage. The studio is also a place of transmission of knowledge and sociability. Artists surround themselves with assistants and apprentices. They welcome critics, dealers, curators, fellow artists, friends. The studio becomes a place for study and research where documentation accumulates. It’s also a space for reading and relaxation, for reverie and musing. Artists are often characterized by their activity as collectors and bargain hunters who accumulate the works of other artists or who store material for future projects. The location of the studio is an indicator of artists’ socio-economic standing and of changing relationships with the infrastructures required to make their work.
From 2018 to 2021, a SSHRC-funded research project (Laurier Lacroix, Dominic Hardy, coinvestigators) collected data on the functions and representations of the studio in Quebec (1800-1980). In the abundance of international publications on the artist’s studio, critical approaches have yet to be undertaken; this symposium offers the opportunity to develop just such a framework in order to examine Canadian artists’ studio experiences, both past and present.
The symposium has the following objectives:
– To take stock of the state of research about artists’ studios in Canada, from the 19th century to today
– To develop a theoretical and methodological framework that can be used to analyze the
artist’s studio and its functions
– To encourage the presentation of case studies
– To gather first-hand accounts from practicing artists.
By establishing a dialogue between researchers and practitioners, the symposium welcomes proposals that can touch on but are not limited to the following topics:
– Defining and designing the studio: Where and when does the studio take place?
– Monographic case studies on artists‘ studios
– The studio’s role in building community / communities
– The relationship between the studio and the type of works produced in it
– The functions of the studio: creation, storage, mentorship, administration, post-production and presentation space…
– Production conditions in the studio: solitude/sociability, access to equipment/storage…
– How do post-1970 artistic practices (in situ, performance, etc.) change the role of the
studio?
– Strategies for adapting the studio (disadvantaged background, minority groups)
– The studio of the future
– Representing the studio in exhibitions
– The studio as historical site/museum/exhibition space
– The studio in fiction (literature and cinema)
– The studio in the urban fabric
– Impact of socioeconomic and physical conditions on access to studios

Various forms of presentation are invited:
– 1) 15-minute paper
– 2) 3-minute presentation (Pecha Kucha format)
– 3) Poster presentation to be published on the conference blog
– 4) Visual presentation from artists to be posted on the conference blog
Proposals for papers must be submitted by September 15, 2022, to the following address:
ateliersartistes2023@gmail.com
Each proposal should include:
– A title, followed by a brief statement of the topic (150 words maximum) and the form that this presentation will take.
– A brief biographical summary of the presenter (100 words maximum); please add mailing address and, if applicable, institutional affiliation.