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Apply Now: Indigenous Futurisms – Workshop with Chelsea Vowel 19.2.2024 Universität Wien

Workshop for PhD and advanced MA students

Date: February 19, 2024

Location: Helene-Richter-Saal, UniCampus, Hof 8, Department of English and American Studies
and ONLINE

Chelsea Vowel, Métis writer from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne) Alberta, is coming to the University of Vienna to offer a workshop on Indigenous Futurisms for MA and PhD students. Students interested in Indigenous futurisms and Indigenous speculative writing are encouraged to apply for this workshop, which will be an opportunity to receive critical input on their own work and to gain new perspectives on Indigenous theory and writing. The workshop will begin with an opening talk by Chelsea Vowel on the intersection between theory and fiction writing. Students will then have the opportunity to present their own work and get a response and feedback from our guest. To close, Chelsea Vowel will read from her recent short story collection Buffalo is the New Buffalo.

Please submit abstracts incl. project title (max. 300 words) and a short biographical note to barbara.gfoellner@univie.ac.at by January 5, 2024. All applicants will be notified of their participation in the workshop by the beginning of January 2024.

Please find the full call for papers here.

Chelsea Vowel is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne) Alberta, residing in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). Parent to six children, she has a BEd, LLB, and MA. She is a Cree language instructor at the Faculty of Native studies at the University of Alberta. Chelsea is a public intellectual, writer, and educator whose work intersects language, gender, Métis self-determination, and resurgence. Author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada, she and her co-host Molly Swain produce the Indigenous feminist sci-fi podcast Métis in Space, and co-founded the Métis in Space Land Trust. Her most recent work is the short story collection Buffalo is the New Buffalo, published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2022.

Organizers: Stefanie Schäfer, Markus Schwarz, Barbara Gföllner, Alexandra Ganser

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Call for Papers: New Moons, New Tides: A Century of Change in Canada, 1923-2023

10th triennial CEACS conference on Canadian Studies in Central Europe

September 12 to 14, 2024, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

To honour the 101st anniversary of the publication of L. M. Montgomery’s novel Emily of New Moon, we welcome proposals that address or contest narratives of change and development in the fields of history, sociology, anthropology, science, music, literature, language, or the fine arts.

Topic areas—in either French or English–could include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Revolutionary Canadian ideas, paradigms or theoretical approaches,
  • Climate-change issues (including in literature),
  • Evaluation/re-evaluation of key 20th-century events,
  • Individual author/ artist/ performance studies (literature, music or other arts),
  • Cultural impact of technological innovation,
  • Updated genres, and new media,
  • Language change and linguistic policy changes,
  • Renegotiations of gender and mental health in language, literature, and society,
  • Multiculturalism and marginalization revisited,
  • Urban development in literature and arts,
  • Canadian identities (Acadian, Quebec etc.),
  • Migrant literature (écriture migrante),
  • Transnationalization, migration, and cross-border issues/identities,
  • And a special topic on Margaret Atwood at 85.

Abstracts of 200 words, along with a brief bio (200 words) should be sent to ceacs2024@um.si by January 31st, 2024.

 

 

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Appel à contributions: Confluences littéraires québécoises – Aspects inter- et transculturels de l’extrême contemporain au Québec

Aufruf zum Einreichen von Vortragsvorschlägen für die Sektion Confluences littéraires québécoises – Aspects inter- et transculturels de l’extrême contemporain au Québec im Rahmen des Frankoromanistiktags 2024 in Passau.

Den vollständigen AAC finden Sie hier.

Bitte senden Sie Ihre Vortragsvorschläge bis zum 31.01.2024 an dagmar.schmelzer@ur.de und struve@uni-bremen.de.

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Call for Papers: New Moons, New Tides: A Century of Change in Canada, 1923-2023

New Moons, New Tides: A Century of Change in Canada, 1923-2023

10th triennial CEACS conference on Canadian Studies in Central Europe

September 12 to 14, 2024, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

To honour the 101st anniversary of the publication of L. M. Montgomery’s novel Emily of New Moon, we welcome proposals that address or contest narratives of change and development in the fields of history, sociology, anthropology, science, music, literature, language, or the fine arts.

Topic areas—in either French or English–could include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Revolutionary Canadian ideas, paradigms or theoretical approaches,
  • Climate-change issues (including in literature),
  • Evaluation/re-evaluation of key 20th-century events,
  • Individual author/ artist/ performance studies (literature, music or other arts),
  • Cultural impact of technological innovation,
  • Updated genres, and new media,
  • Language change and linguistic policy changes,
  • Renegotiations of gender and mental health in language, literature, and society,
  • Multiculturalism and marginalization revisited,
  • Urban development in literature and arts,
  • Canadian identities (Acadian, Quebec etc.),
  • Migrant literature (écriture migrante),
  • Transnationalization, migration, and cross-border issues/identities,
  • And a special topic on Margaret Atwood at 85.

Abstracts of 200 words, along with a brief bio (200 words) should be sent to ceacs2024@um.si by January 31st, 2024.

***Version française***

Nouvelles lunes, nouvelles marées: Un siècle de changement au Canada, 1923-2023
Appel à communications

10e congrès triennale du CEACS sur les études canadiennes en Europe centrale
12-14 septembre 2024, Université de Maribor, Maribor, Slovénie

Pour honorer le 101e anniversaire de la publication du roman Emily of New Moon de L. M. Montgomery, nous vous invitons à nous proposer des contributions qui abordent ou contestent les narratifs de changement et de développement dans les domaines de l’Histoire, de la sociologie, de l’anthropologie, des sciences, de la musique, de la littérature, du langage ou des beaux-arts.

Les domaines thématiques, en français ou en anglais, pourraient inclure (sans s’y limiter) les éléments suivants :

  • Idées, paradigmes ou approches théoriques révolutionnaires canadiennes,
  • Questions liées au changement climatique (y compris dans la littérature),
  • Évaluation/réévaluation des événements clés du XXe siècle,
  • Études individuelles sur un/e auteur/artiste/performance (littérature, musique ou autres arts),
  • Impact culturel de l’innovation technologique,
  • Genres mis à jour et nouveaux médias,
  • Changements linguistiques et changements de politique linguistique,
  • Renégociations du genre et de la santé mentale dans la langue, la littérature et la société,
  • Multiculturalisme et marginalisation revisités,
  • Développement urbain en littérature et autres arts,
  • Identités canadiennes (Acadienne, Québécoise etc.),
  • Littérature migrante (écriture migrante),
  • Transnationalisation, migration et questions/identités transfrontalières,
  • Et un focus spécial sur Margaret Atwood (85 ans).

Les résumés de 200 mots, accompagnés d’une brève biographie (200 mots) doivent être envoyés à ceacs2024@um.si avant le 31 janvier 2024.

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Call for Papers // Appel à contributions: International Seminar – Workshop – Journée d’étude international: Towards Postmigrant Social Imaginaries: Transatlantic Perspectives on Intercultural Negociations of Racism, Discrimination and Diversity in Canada and Europe

Towards Postmigrant Social Imaginaries: Transatlantic Perspectives on Intercultural Negociations of Racism, Discrimination and Diversity in Canada and Europe

Postmigrantische Social Imaginaries: Transatlantische Perspektiven auf interkulturelle Verhandlungen von Rassismus, Diskriminierung und Diversität in Kanada und Europa

Vers des imaginaires sociaux post-migrants : Négociations interculturelles du racisme, de la discriminiation et de la diversité dans une perspective transatlantique (Canada-Europe)

 

Date: Monday, March 4, 2024

Venue: Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany)

Organizers: Christoph Vatter, Charlotte Kaiser, Julien Bobineau (all Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany), Philippe Néméh-Nombré (Université Concordia, Canada)

Deadline: November 6, 2023

Migration has shaped and continues to shape most contemporary societies in the Global North and the Global South. These societies, whether host countries or transit countries, such as North African states with which the EU has signed several treaties to prevent Sub-Saharan Africans from migrating to Europe, can be defined as postmigrant: they are becoming more and more diverse, which further blurs any so-called clear boundaries between different groups (Foroutan 2021). The concept of the postmigrant society does not, however, refer to any utopian vision of egalitarian and peaceful cohabitation. It characterizes a phase of intense debate and conflict around nothing less than the foundations of liberal democracy and its incarnation by the modern nation-state. While racial awareness as a topic has become increasingly present in the public sphere, diversity remains a contested moral, conceptual, and discursive terrain.

Debates over the objective and normative meanings and uses of Diversity happen across every area of society, such as (higher) education, job markets and business policies, and cultural industries. However, they are particularly heated regarding the state’s judiciary and executive institutions. The early 2020s, for example, saw a transnational revival of critiques of policing and police violence in Western countries and beyond, which have channeled a significant part of transformative efforts and commitment to social justice, articulated similar intentions and desires, and (re-)created social imaginaries, all the more so for younger generations.

Social imaginaries are an integral part of social, economic, and political power structures and institutions and can contribute to social cohesion, but they can also give rise to new forms of difference and dissent (Gaonkar/Lee 2002; Taylor 2004; Alma/Vanheeswijck 2018). As dynamic phenomena, social imaginaries constantly change, which may reciprocally affect social or political processes. Individuals and groups can change these imaginaries or use them – consciously or unconsciously – for various social, economic, and political purposes. However, by creating fundamental meaning and guiding human action, social imaginaries also shape social institutions; they can stabilize or challenge power and partly determine the boundaries within which we function collectively.

This symposium aims to create a space for reflecting on the circulation of social imaginaries in the postmigrant society and between postmigrant societies, especially in Canada and Western Europe. We invite researchers from the Humanities and Social Sciences to contextualize their reflections within the broader context of the rise of authoritarianism and the negotiation of minorities’ rights between local issues and transnational echoes. We welcome papers drawing on critical approaches such as, among others, feminist and queer theory, environmental justice, decoloniality and postcolonialism, Black radical thought, and Indigenous studies.

Papers may address, in particular, the following topics and questions:

State institutions: How is cultural and racial identity accounted for and negotiated in policing and state surveillance? What do state institutions understand by “diversity”? Can institutions such as the police and the penal system be sustainably reformed towards equality and inclusion? What potential alternatives have been and can be implemented?

Migration and borders: What new understandings of migration, asylum, movement, and displacement arise in the post-migrant, global, ecocidal, and late capitalist era? What implications do these changes entail for studying diasporas, transnationalism, and international relations? How are these developments and profound changes dealt with in different areas of society?

Storytelling and social imaginaries: How do cultural expressive forms, such as literature, film, music, and media, represent, mitigate or create tensions regarding diversity, racism, migration, and, more broadly, exclusion, discrimination, and oppression? How do activists communicate the changes they call upon, and through what means? How are the social imaginaries created, told, and negotiated?

Deadline for the submission of proposals: November 6, 2023

Notification of acceptance: November 25, 2023

 

Please send an abstract (ca. 300 words) + a short biography to iwk@uni-jena.de. 

Venue: The event will take place in person at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany). The choice of Jena as the conference venue refers to the special significance that the University of Jena plays in German discourses on racism. In 2019, during the 112th annual meeting of the German Zoological Society, the “Jena Declaration” was published, in which scientists from zoology, genetics, and evolutionary biology distanced themselves from their historical predecessors at the University of Jena, in particular from Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), who was also known as the “German Darwin” and established racist patterns of thought in the German Academia. The Jena Declaration of 2019 underlines that the concept of “race” is the result of racism and not its precondition and calls for a deletion of the term “race” from the German Constitution.

Languages: The preferred language is English, but presentations in French and German are welcome. To ensure accessibility, we ask that PowerPoint slides be presented in one of the languages other than that of the talk. We would especially like to encourage early career researchers (PhD students, Postdocs) to submit a proposal.