Kategorie: Aktuelles

CFP International Conference: HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 25. Juli 2022

Amerikahaus, Munich/Germany

June 16-18, 2023

Deadline: September 30, 2022

Over the past decades, the academic study of historiographical as well as documentary and journalistic comics has become an established field of research. Pioneering comics researcher Joseph Witek argued in his study Comic Books as History (1989) that the (re-)presentation of the past in comics has been an integral element in the early transformations of comics culture during the 1970s that initiated the advent of the graphic novel. Since Art Spiegelman’s 1992 reception of the Pulitzer Prize for Maus, comics have received wider public attention and nonfiction graphic narratives can be considered a notable element of Western media culture, with historical events among the most prominent topics they explore. In fact, Maus has become such an established part of the teaching canon by now that it even found itself caught up in the culture wars after a Tennessee school board voted to remove the book from its eighth-grade curriculum, sparking international backlash.

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CFP: Special issue of International Journal of Canadian Studies “Is Canada a model ?” / « Le Canada est-il un modèle ? »

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 25. Juli 2022

Call for articles– International Journal of Canadian Studies

Special issue #61 – May 2023

“Le Canada est-il un modèle ?» / « Is Canada a model ? »

The International Journal of Canadian Studies is seeking interdisciplinary original submissions for its #61 special issue to be published in May 2023.

This special issue welcomes articles discussing the topic: “Is Canada a model?”

Deadline: October 3, 2022

The International Journal of Canadian Studies is a long-running interdisciplinary journal dedicated to examining Canada from the fields of the arts, literature, geography, history, native studies, social and political sciences. The bilingual journal is published by the University of Toronto Press.

Submissions could explore the place of Canada in the world as a possible “role model” or simply a model of society, in the past or present times. Does Canada have a power of emulation regarding other nations, regarding which topics? Is Canada a (self-proclaimed) leader in some specific social or political areas? In the field of the arts and literatures, are there any Canadian literary canons ?

Submissions (6000 to 8000 words plus two summaries in English and French) are welcome from a range of disciplines and perspectives in Canadian Studies, including, but not restricted to political studies, international relations literatures and the arts, history, native studies, sociology, anthropology.

Submissions in French or English can be uploaded on our portal until October 3, 2022.

To prepare and submit your submission, follow the “Guideline for authors” on our website: https://utpjournals.press/journals/ijcs/submissions

All articles will undergo double-blind peer review.

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CFP: The Tenth International Tartu Conference on Canadian Studies “SURVIVAL”

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 19. Juli 2022

Department of English Studies and Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia

Estonian Association for Canadian Studies with the assistance of Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Tartu and Embassy ofCanada

8-9 October 2022, at the University of Tartu, Estonia

Deadline: September 10, 2022

Fifty years ago, Margaret Atwood’s Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature was published. This critical work became an introduction to Canadian literature for a wider reading public at home and abroad. While Atwood’s conceptualisation of Canada and Canadian literature in terms of survival has been contested, it has made an important contribution to the debates that have facilitated a better understanding of both. Today, the concept of survival remains productive, and it can be expanded, also considering Atwood’s 2022 essay collection Burning Questions, to address all living things a s well as tackle urgent cultural, social, environmental, political , and economic issues. With this conference, we seek to explore survival from multiple inter/ disciplinary and theoretical perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. The conference also marks the 30th anniversary of the institutionalisation of Canadian Studies in Estonia with the establishing of the Estonian Association for Canadian Studies and the Tartu Conference tradition in 1992. “Survival” as the conference theme is related to the “Arts of Survival,” the artistic concept of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024. While addressing the conference theme, the contexts of the issues in the papers may be current or historical or combine both. We welcome case studies and theoretical papers as well as comparative analyses of Canada and other countries.

The topics of the contributions may include but are not limited to: representation of survival in literature and other art forms; survival of individuals and communities; survival of languages and cultures; survival of organisms and life forms; sustainability of habitats and environments; geo/political and economic survival; local and global challenges; Indigenous Peoples; migration and multiculturalism ; Baltic diasporas in Canada; means, resources and technologies of survival; Aboriginal Studies, Quebec Studies and Canadian Studies; concepts, theories, and research methodologies to deal with the topics.

The working language of the conference is English; however, presentations can be made either in English or French. The length of the presentations is 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion. We hope for the participants to be able to be present in person, however, we are planning a hybrid conference to ensure the possibility of online participation.

Contributors are expected to submit an abstract of 250 words as well as a biographical note of 100 words (including title and institutional affiliation) by September 10, 2022 .

Please send abstracts and biographical note s as well as possible enquiries via e – mail to Eva Rein (eva.rein@ut.ee).

Conference committee: Eva Rein and Ene – Reet Soovik

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CFP: Canadian Literary Cultures: Where From Here?

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 16. Juli 2022

September 15 – 16, 2022
University of Guelph

New deadline: July 22, 2022

In the wake of the global pandemic, environmental disaster, the war in Ukraine, the protests against anti-Black racism and police violence in Canada, the discovery of unmarked graves on the sites of former residential schools, and the increasingly hollow rhetoric of reconciliation, the concept of Canada and understandings of national identity appear increasingly troubled. In light of these concerns, Canadian literature may appear even more like a relic, a holdover of naive humanism, and yet also, now and then, a place in which a creative, critical, and vital reassessment of nation, citizenship, and belonging takes place.

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Appel à communications : Les dynamiques de participation artistique et culturelle contemporaines à l’aune de l’immigration. Regards atlantiques

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 14. Juli 2022

Colloque international présenté par
la Chaire Fernand–Dumont sur la culture
du 17 au 19 mai 2023, à Montréal (Canada)

Date limite : 31 juillet 2022

*Version complète de cet appel à communications en cliquant ici*

Dans un contexte marqué par d’importantes transformations sociodémographiques
induites par les migrations contemporaines, que sait–on des pratiques artistiques et
culturelles des individus et groupes immigrants ? Tandis que les travaux traitant de
participation artistique et culturelle ne problématisent encore que peu les questions
d’immigration, les études migratoires tendent de leur côté à privilégier les dimensions
économiques, sociales, politiques ou civiques de la participation au détriment de ses
aspects proprement culturels et artistiques. Cette thématique invite pourtant à saisir les
conditions et enjeux inédits de la pluralisation des mondes culturels pour l’ensemble des
personnes et organisations engagées dans la production, la circulation et la fréquentation/consommation des arts et de la culture.
À l’interface des études culturelles, urbaines et migratoires, ce colloque souhaite éclairer
les dynamiques de participation artistique et culturelle induites par l’immigration en
croisant angles théoriques et approches méthodologiques et en engageant un dialogue
de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique. Si la recherche fondamentale est essentielle pour mieux
comprendre les processus en jeu, la problématique appelle également la mobilisation et
le partage des connaissances avec les milieux artistiques et culturels. Les discussions de
ce colloque s’articuleront autour des trois axes suivants :

Axe politique : Pluralisation des pratiques, institutions et médiations
La thématique de ce colloque invite à réfléchir aux redéfinitions des modes de
participation et des politiques culturelles, de même qu’aux reconfigurations des
institutions artistiques. En quoi les pratiques artistiques et culturelles des individus et
groupes immigrants transforment–elles les écosystèmes culturels locaux ? En quoi ces
pratiques invitent–elles à repenser la notion même de participation artistique et
culturelle ? Comment comprendre les enjeux d’accessibilité et d’inclusion des populations immigrantes au sein des institutions culturelles ? Quelles formes de médiations permettent de valoriser d’autres modes de participation aux arts, à la culture et à la vie de la cité ?

Axe social : Socialisations et sociabilités culturelles en contexte de superdiversité
Dans les sociétés contemporaines superdiversifiées par l’immigration, de nouvelles
formes de sociabilités interethniques et interraciales s’affirment, de même que des
polarisations et clivages au sujet desquels les arts et la culture constituent des lunettes
d’observation pertinentes. Quelles interactions engendrent les pratiques artistiques et
culturelles dans les villes marquées par l’immigration ? Quelles dynamiques sociales les
arts et la culture mettent–elles en évidence ? Quels facteurs sociodémographiques
marquent les frontières des pratiques artistiques et culturelles des populations
immigrantes ?

Axe spatial : Territorialisation et échelles des pratiques artistiques et culturelles
Les migrations contemporaines renvoient à des trajectoires de plus en plus variées, les
contextes émigrant et immigrant étant interconnectés tant par les allers–retours
physiques des individus que par le biais des technologies numériques au cœur de
mouvements transnationaux. Ainsi, sur quels territoires, physiques et numériques, se
déploie la participation artistique et culturelle des personnes et populations
immigrantes ? Quelles connexions transnationales se dessinent par leurs pratiques
artistiques et culturelles ? Quelles échelles doivent être considérées dans l’étude de ces
pratiques ?

Les propositions de communications (incluant Nom, prénom, statut, institution
d’attache, titre, résumé de 300 mots maximum et 5 mots–clés) sont à envoyer à
l’adresse : chaire.fernand–dumont@inrs.ca
Ce colloque se déroulera principalement en langue française. Certaines séances
se tiendront également en langue anglaise ; nous invitons ainsi les personnes qui
le souhaitent à soumettre une proposition dans cette langue.
Calendrier
Date limite d’envoi de propositions : 31 juillet 2022
Annonce des résultats : Automne 2022

Colloque : 17–19 mai 2023

Comité organisateur
Guy Bellavance, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Canada

Angéline Escafré–Dublet, Université Lumière Lyon–2, France
Caroline Marcoux–Gendron, Université de Montréal, Canada
Marco Martiniello, Université de Liège, Belgique
Yana Meerzon, Université d’Ottawa, Canada
Christian Poirier, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Canada
Comité scientifique
Art Babayants, Bishop’s University, Canada
Xavier Bouvier, Haute école de musique Genève–Neuchâtel, Suisse
Philippe Coulangeon, Sciences Po, France
Nada Guzin Lukic, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
Laurie Hanquinet, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgique
Sonia Mbarek, Université de Tunis, Tunisie
Elsa Mescoli, Université de Liège, Belgique
Amin Moghadam, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Sylvie Octobre, ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France
Aly Tandian, Université Gaston Berger, Sénégal

International Colloquium presented by
the Chaire Fernand–Dumont sur la culture
17–19 May 2023, in Montréal (Canada)

Deadline: July 31, 2022

*Full version of this call for submissions here*
In a context marked by major socio–demographic transformations induced by
contemporary migrations, what do we know about the arts and cultural practices of
immigrant individuals and groups? Few current studies on arts and cultural participation
problematize immigration issues, and migration studies tend to focus on the economic,
social, political, or civic dimensions of participation, to the detriment of its cultural and
artistic aspects. Nevertheless, this theme captures the conditions and issues involved in
the pluralization of cultural spheres for all people and organizations involved in the
production, circulation, and attendance at/consumption of arts and culture.

This colloquium, at the intersection of cultural, urban, and migration studies, is intended
to shed light on the dynamics of arts and cultural participation induced by immigration by
combining theoretical angles and methodological approaches and engaging in a dialogue
from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Although fundamental research is essential to a
better understanding of the processes at play, the subject also calls for the mobilization
and sharing of knowledge with the arts and cultural fields. The discussions at this
colloquium will be articulated around the following three axes:

Political Axis: Pluralization of Practices, Institutions, and Forms of Mediation
The themes explored in this colloquium invite us to consider the redefinitions of modes
of participation and of cultural policies, as well as the reconfiguration of art institutions.
In what ways do the arts and cultural practices of immigrant individuals and groups
transform local cultural ecosystems? How do these practices encourage us to rethink the
very notion of arts and cultural participation? How can we understand the issues of
immigrant populations’ access to and inclusion in cultural institutions? What forms of
mediation can highlight other ways of participating in arts, culture, and urban life?

Social Axis: Cultural Socialization and Sociabilities in the Context of Super–diversity
In contemporary societies, super–diversified by immigration, new forms of interethnic and
interracial sociabilities are emerging, as are polarizations and cleavages, for which arts
and culture constitute relevant lenses for observation. What interactions engender arts
and cultural practices in cities with significant immigrant populations? What social
dynamics do arts and culture highlight? What socio–demographic factors define the
boundaries between and within respective immigrant populations’ arts and cultural
practices?

Spatial Axis: Territorialization and Scales of Arts and Cultural Practices
Contemporary migrations refer to trajectories that are increasingly varied, as emigrant
and immigrant contexts are interconnected both by individuals’ physical comings and
goings and via the digital technologies now key to transnational movements. So, in which
territories, physical and digital, do immigrant individuals and populations deploy their arts and cultural participation? What transnational connections are sketched out by their arts and cultural practices? What scales should be considered in research on these practices?
Submissions (including last name, first name, status, institution to which the
person is attached, title, abstract of 300 words maximum, and 5 keywords)
should be sent to chaire.fernand–dumont@inrs.ca
This colloquium will be held mainly in French. Some sessions will also be held in
English; we therefore welcome proposals in that language.
Schedule
Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2022
Announcement of results: Fall 2022
Colloquium: 17–19 Mai 2023

Organizing committee

Guy Bellavance, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Canada

International Colloquium presented by
the Chaire Fernand–Dumont sur la culture
17–19 May 2023, in Montréal (Canada)

Deadline: July 31, 2022

Organizing committee

Guy Bellavance, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Canada