September 29-30, 2022 at Paderborn University & Online
Deadline: August 1, 2022 August 15, 2022
Download the CFP here
Canada has successfully defied definition for centuries. And yet, as a young and most
diverse country relying on immigration to maintain population growth, questions of what
Canada is, was, has, and will become are of utmost importance to many of its inhabitants
and its governmental institutions alike. With the theme „(Un-)Making Canada“, the 19th
annual conference of the Emerging Scholars‘ Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries will inquire into practices of fragmentation, contestation, and reconciliation that have (in-)formed Canada’s political institutions and systems as well as processes and strategies of identity-building, community formations, and nation-making.
As a country, what is now Canada has been shaped by conflicting and overlapping federal,
provincial, municipal, and Indigenous jurisdictions, its transition from Indigenous
self-government through French and British colonial rule to a confederation of provinces and territories, and it continues to be characterized by increasing transnational mobility and the challenges of an increasing movement/ongoing flow of refugees and migrants. In an era of resurgent conservatism, and growing numbers of physical, social, and political attacks on, for instance, ethnic racial, cultural, linguistic, and religious minorities, this conference is devoted to examining historical perspectives as well as the role of current events and crises (e.g., COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, etc.) in the fragmentation, contestation, reconciliation, or general negotiation of Canadian political, societal, and cultural issues and identities.
In recent years, a wide range of social and protest movements have erupted across Canada
(e.g., Black Lives Matter, Idle No More Indigenous sovereignty, Missing and Murdered
Indigenous Women and Girls, Me Too, or movements surrounding womxn’s and
2SLGBTQIA+ rights). Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncovering discovery of unmarked mass grave sites near Canadian residential schools have rendered visible and intensified racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequities/injustices inequalities in urban and rural areas. Uneven responses to COVID-19 across provinces problematized Canadian notions of equality and universal access to healthcare, and, along with the effects of the global economic crisis (e.g., unemployment, bailouts to large corporations, and rising inflation), highlighted the challenge of addressing the needs of all inhabitants of what is now Canada. The discovery of unmarked mass grave sites near Canada’s residential schools brought the intergenerational trauma among Indigenous communities to the fore, exposed the ongoing denial of genocidal policies and their impacts on public memory as well as broached Canada’s continued struggle to reconcile with Indigenous peoples, if reconciliation is even possible.
Canada’s nation-building practices, the formation and sustaining of its communities, and the negotiation of its political, societal, and cultural identities continue to be sculpted by multitudinous processes of contestation and reconciliation. To open and sustain a dialogue about the making and unmaking of Canada across a wide range of disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological approaches, we invite contributions along three thematic axes:
(1) Fragmented, Contested, and Reconciled Identities and Policies,
(2) (Un-)Making Canada in Literature, Art, and Media, and
(3) (Re-)Configuring Settler, Rural, and Urban Space(s).
Contributions from master’s and PhD students, early-career researchers, and
emerging scholars may include, but are not limited to:
● Memory culture(s) of fragmentation, contestation, or reconciliation (e.g.,
cultural amnesia, intergenerational trauma, Canada’s residential school
system, the 60s Scoop, national/public memory, ongoing injustices against
marginalized and vulnerable communities, Canadian exceptionalism),
● Everyday processes and practices of fragmentation, contestations, or
reconciliation within and between different communities (e.g., Indigenous
peoples, racialized communities, disabled people, the 2SLGBTQIA+
community, migrants, or religious groups, different linguistic groups),
● Literary and media (television and film, social media, digital and multimedia
arts) representations and/or negotiations of forms of fragmentation,
contestation, and reconciliation (e.g., misrepresentations/
underrepresentation/appropriations of Indigenous peoples, diversities, and
minorities, representations of national identity, or portrayals of public opinion
on key societal issues),
● Historical perspectives on contested or shifting practices of identity-building,
community formation, and nation-making (e.g., the politics of multiculturalism,
Indigenous self-determination/sovereignty, Canadian nationalism, settler
colonial, and imperial Canada, the post-national state),
● Current events (e.g., COVID-19, the war in Ukraine) and their role in the
fragmentation, contestation, and negotiation of Canadian political, societal,
and cultural issues and identities,
● The role of protest movements (e.g., Idle No More, MMIWG, women,
2SLGBTQIA+ rights, Black Lives Matter, climate justice, migrant rights,
Québec sovereignty, labor, white supremacy/white nationalism,
anti-vaccination, Trucker protest/”Freedom Convoy”) in the (un-) making of
Canada,
● Multi-scalar processes of fragmentation, contestation, and reconciliation
across rural and urban spaces in Canada (e.g., different place-/space-based
identities across ethnic, racial, and gender groups in urban and rural spaces,
Indigenous conceptions of land in urban and rural settings, socioeconomic
and political inequalities in these spaces).
Conference Components and Format
Presentation Panels: Panels include individual 20-minute presentations and
10-minute discussion sessions.
Idea Café: The Idea Café informally combines the presentation of new research
ideas and/or project posters with the opportunity for participants and guests to mingle
and engage in conversations with each other.
Abstract Submission
Panel Presentation: Please submit abstracts of max. 300 words and a short bio note of max. 150 words in English, French, or German to Yvonne K. Jende (ykjende@mail.upb.de), Louise Louw (louisielouw@gmail.com), and Emiliano Castillo Jara (s6emcast@uni-trier.de) by August 1st, 2022. Please outline which of the three main axes above your paper speaks to (if any).
Idea Café: Please submit a short idea/project outline of max. 150 words and a short bio note of max. 150 words in English, French, or German to to Yvonne K. Jende (ykjende@mail.upb.de), Louise Louw (louisielouw@gmail.com), and Emiliano Castillo Jara (s6emcast@uni-trier.de) by August 1st, 2022.
September 29-30, 2022 at Paderborn University & Online
Deadline: August 1, 2022 August 15, 2022
Download the CFP here
Canada has successfully defied definition for centuries. And yet, as a young and most
diverse country relying on immigration to maintain population growth, questions of what
Canada is, was, has, and will become are of utmost importance to many of its inhabitants
and its governmental institutions alike. With the theme „(Un-)Making Canada“, the 19th
annual conference of the Emerging Scholars‘ Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries will inquire into practices of fragmentation, contestation, and reconciliation that have (in-)formed Canada’s political institutions and systems as well as processes and strategies of identity-building, community formations, and nation-making.
As a country, what is now Canada has been shaped by conflicting and overlapping federal,
provincial, municipal, and Indigenous jurisdictions, its transition from Indigenous
self-government through French and British colonial rule to a confederation of provinces and territories, and it continues to be characterized by increasing transnational mobility and the challenges of an increasing movement/ongoing flow of refugees and migrants. In an era of resurgent conservatism, and growing numbers of physical, social, and political attacks on, for instance, ethnic racial, cultural, linguistic, and religious minorities, this conference is devoted to examining historical perspectives as well as the role of current events and crises (e.g., COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, etc.) in the fragmentation, contestation, reconciliation, or general negotiation of Canadian political, societal, and cultural issues and identities.
In recent years, a wide range of social and protest movements have erupted across Canada
(e.g., Black Lives Matter, Idle No More Indigenous sovereignty, Missing and Murdered
Indigenous Women and Girls, Me Too, or movements surrounding womxn’s and
2SLGBTQIA+ rights). Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncovering discovery of unmarked mass grave sites near Canadian residential schools have rendered visible and intensified racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequities/injustices inequalities in urban and rural areas. Uneven responses to COVID-19 across provinces problematized Canadian notions of equality and universal access to healthcare, and, along with the effects of the global economic crisis (e.g., unemployment, bailouts to large corporations, and rising inflation), highlighted the challenge of addressing the needs of all inhabitants of what is now Canada. The discovery of unmarked mass grave sites near Canada’s residential schools brought the intergenerational trauma among Indigenous communities to the fore, exposed the ongoing denial of genocidal policies and their impacts on public memory as well as broached Canada’s continued struggle to reconcile with Indigenous peoples, if reconciliation is even possible.
Canada’s nation-building practices, the formation and sustaining of its communities, and the negotiation of its political, societal, and cultural identities continue to be sculpted by multitudinous processes of contestation and reconciliation. To open and sustain a dialogue about the making and unmaking of Canada across a wide range of disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological approaches, we invite contributions along three thematic axes:
(1) Fragmented, Contested, and Reconciled Identities and Policies,
(2) (Un-)Making Canada in Literature, Art, and Media, and
(3) (Re-)Configuring Settler, Rural, and Urban Space(s).
Contributions from master’s and PhD students, early-career researchers, and
emerging scholars may include, but are not limited to:
● Memory culture(s) of fragmentation, contestation, or reconciliation (e.g.,
cultural amnesia, intergenerational trauma, Canada’s residential school
system, the 60s Scoop, national/public memory, ongoing injustices against
marginalized and vulnerable communities, Canadian exceptionalism),
● Everyday processes and practices of fragmentation, contestations, or
reconciliation within and between different communities (e.g., Indigenous
peoples, racialized communities, disabled people, the 2SLGBTQIA+
community, migrants, or religious groups, different linguistic groups),
● Literary and media (television and film, social media, digital and multimedia
arts) representations and/or negotiations of forms of fragmentation,
contestation, and reconciliation (e.g., misrepresentations/
underrepresentation/appropriations of Indigenous peoples, diversities, and
minorities, representations of national identity, or portrayals of public opinion
on key societal issues),
● Historical perspectives on contested or shifting practices of identity-building,
community formation, and nation-making (e.g., the politics of multiculturalism,
Indigenous self-determination/sovereignty, Canadian nationalism, settler
colonial, and imperial Canada, the post-national state),
● Current events (e.g., COVID-19, the war in Ukraine) and their role in the
fragmentation, contestation, and negotiation of Canadian political, societal,
and cultural issues and identities,
● The role of protest movements (e.g., Idle No More, MMIWG, women,
2SLGBTQIA+ rights, Black Lives Matter, climate justice, migrant rights,
Québec sovereignty, labor, white supremacy/white nationalism,
anti-vaccination, Trucker protest/”Freedom Convoy”) in the (un-) making of
Canada,
● Multi-scalar processes of fragmentation, contestation, and reconciliation
across rural and urban spaces in Canada (e.g., different place-/space-based
identities across ethnic, racial, and gender groups in urban and rural spaces,
Indigenous conceptions of land in urban and rural settings, socioeconomic
and political inequalities in these spaces).
Conference Components and Format
Presentation Panels: Panels include individual 20-minute presentations and
10-minute discussion sessions.
Idea Café: The Idea Café informally combines the presentation of new research
ideas and/or project posters with the opportunity for participants and guests to mingle
and engage in conversations with each other.
Abstract Submission
Panel Presentation: Please submit abstracts of max. 300 words and a short bio note of max. 150 words in English, French, or German to Yvonne K. Jende (ykjende@mail.upb.de), Louise Louw (louisielouw@gmail.com), and Emiliano Castillo Jara (s6emcast@uni-trier.de) by August 1st, 2022. Please outline which of the three main axes above your paper speaks to (if any).
Idea Café: Please submit a short idea/project outline of max. 150 words and a short bio note of max. 150 words in English, French, or German to to Yvonne K. Jende (ykjende@mail.upb.de), Louise Louw (louisielouw@gmail.com), and Emiliano Castillo Jara (s6emcast@uni-trier.de) by August 1st, 2022.
Université de Paderborn et en ligne
29 – 30 septembre 2022
Date limite : 1er août 2022 Nouvelle date limite : 15e août 2022
Téléchargez l’appel ici
Le Canada a réussi à défier les définitions pendant des siècles. Et pourtant, en tant que pays jeune et très diversifié qui dépend de l’immigration pour maintenir sa croissance démographique, les questions de ce que le Canada est, était, est devenu et deviendra sont de la plus haute importance et pour beaucoup de ses habitants et pour ses institutions gouvernementales. Sous le titre « (Dé)Faire le Canada », la 19ème conférence annuelle du Forum de la Relève Académique de L’Association d’Études Canadiennes dans les Pays de Langue Allemande se penchera sur les pratiques de fragmentation, de contestation et de réconciliation qui ont (dé)formé les institutions et les systèmes politiques du Canada, ainsi que sur les processus et les stratégies de construction de l’identité, de formation des communautés et de construction de la nation.
En tant que pays, ce qui est aujourd’hui le Canada a été façonné par des juridictions fédérales, provinciales, municipales et autochtones conflictuelles et qui se chevauchent. Après sa transition de l’autonomie autochtone à une confédération de provinces et de territoires, en passant par la domination coloniale française et britannique, il continue d’ être caractérisé parune mobilité transnationale croissante et les défis d’un flux continu de réfugiés et de migrants. À une époque de résurgence du conservatisme et de multiplication des attaques physiques, sociales et politiques contre, par exemple, des minorités ethniques, raciales, culturelles, linguistiques et religieuses, cette conférence est consacrée à examiner des perspectives historiques ainsi que le rôle des événements et des crises actuels (par exemple, le COVID-19, la guerre d’agression contre l’Ukraine, etc.) dans la fragmentation, la contestation, la réconciliation ou la négociation générale des questions et des identités politiques, sociétales et culturelles canadiennes.
Au cours des dernières années, une multitude de mouvements sociaux et de protestation a éclaté au Canada (par exemple, # BlackLivesMatter, # IdleNoMore, la souveraineté autochtone, des femmes et filles autochtones disparues et tuées, # MeToo, ou les mouvements autour des droits des femmes et des 2SLGBTQIA2S+). Récemment, la pandémie du COVID-19 et la découverte de fosses communes non marquées près de pensionnats indiens ont rendu visibles et intensifié les inégalités et injustices raciales, de genre et socio-économiques dans les zones urbaines et rurales. Les réponses inégales au COVID-19 dans les provinces ont problématisé les notions canadiennes d’égalité et d’accès universel aux soins de santé et, avec les effets de la crise économique mondiale (par exemple, le chômage, la vente forcée au profit des grandes entreprises et la hausse de l’ inflation), ont mis en évidence le défi de répondre aux besoins de tous les habitants de ce qui est maintenant le Canada. La découverte des fosses communes non marquées près de pensionnats indiens a mis en évidence le traumatisme intergénérationnel des communautés autochtones et exposé le déni continuel des politiques génocidaires et leur impact sur la mémoire publique. De plus, elle a abordé la lutte perpétuelle du Canada pour se réconcilier avec les peuples autochtones, si jamais une réconciliation soit possible.
Les pratiques le Canada a employées avec pour objective l’instauration de la nation canadienne, la formation et le maintien de ses communautés, ainsi que la négociation de ses identités politiques, sociétales et culturelles continuent d’être sculptées par de multiples processus de contestation et de réconciliation. Afin d’ouvrir et de soutenir un dialogue sur comment le Canada a été fait et défait et afin de l’adresser à travers un large éventail d’approches disciplinaires, théoriques et méthodologiques, nous invitons des contributions selon trois axes thématiques:
(1) Identités et politiques fragmentées, contestées et réconciliées,
(2) (Dé)faire le Canada dans la littérature, l’art et les médias, et
(3) Ré-)configurer l’espace ou les espaces coloniaux, ruraux et urbains.
Les contributions des étudiant..e.s de maîtrise et de doctorat et des chercheur.e.s en début de carrière peuvent inclure, sans s’y limiter, les sujets suivants :
• Culture(s) de mémoire(s) de fragmentation, de contestation ou de réconciliation (par exemple, l’amnésie culturelle, les traumatismes intergénérationnels, le système des pensionnats indiens, le Scoop des années 60, la mémoire nationale/publique, les injustices continues à l’encontre des communautés marginalisées et vulnérables, l’exceptionnalisme canadien),
• Processus et pratiques quotidiens de fragmentation, de contestation ou de réconciliation au sein et entre différentes communautés (par exemple, les peuples autochtones, les communautés racialisées, les personnes handicapées, la communauté 2SLGBTQIA+, les migrants, les groupes religieux, les groupes linguistiques)
• Représentations et/ou négociations littéraires et médiatiques (télévision et cinéma, médias sociaux, arts numériques et multimédias) de formes de fragmentation, de contestation et de réconciliation (par exemple, des représentations erronées/sous-représentations/appropriations des peuples autochtones, la diversité et des minorités, représentations de l’identité nationale ou représentations de l’opinion publique sur des questions sociétales clés),
• Perspectives historiques sur les pratiques contestées ou changeantes de la construction de l’identité, de la formation de la communauté et de la construction de la nation (par exemple, la politique du multiculturalisme, l’autodétermination/souveraineté autochtone, le nationalisme canadien, le Canada colonial et impérial, l’État post-national),
• Les événements actuels (par exemple, le COVID-19, la guerre d’agression contre l’Ukraine) et leur rôle dans la fragmentation, la contestation et la négociation des questions et identités politiques, sociétales et culturelles canadiennes,
• Le rôle des mouvements de protestation (par exemple, #IdleNoMore, #MMIWG 2S, les droits des autochtones, des femmes et des personnes 2SLGBTQIA+, # BlackLivesMatter, la justice climatique, les droits des migrants, la souveraineté du Québec, le travail, la suprématie blanche ou le nationalisme blanc, l’anti-vaccination, la manifestation « Freedom Convoy » des camionneurs) dans la (dé)construction du Canada,
• Les processus multiscalaires de fragmentation, de contestation et de réconciliation dans les espaces ruraux et urbains du Canada (par exemple, les différentes identités liées au lieu et à l’espace parmi les groupes ethniques, raciaux et de genre dans les espaces urbains et ruraux, les conceptions autochtones du terrotoire dans les milieux urbains et ruraux, les inégalités socio-économiques et politiques dans ces espaces et lieus).
Formats éligibles de présentationde la conférence
Présentation en panel : Les panels comprennent des présentations individuelles de 20 minutes et des sessions de discussion de 10 minutes par présentation.
Café des idées : Le café des idées combine de manière informelle la présentation de nouvelles idées de recherche et/ou de posters de projets avec l’ opportunité pour les participants et les invités d’échanger, donc, d’engager des conversations entre eux.
Soumission des résumés
Présentation en panel : Veuillez soumettre un résumé (300 mots max.) et une courte note biographique (150 mots max.) en anglais, français ou allemand à Yvonne K. Jende (ykjende@mail.upb.de) , Louise Louw (louisielouw@gmail.com) et Emiliano Castillo Jara (s6emcast@uni-trier.de) avant le 1 août 2022. De plus, si votre présentation porte sur un des trois axes principaux ci-dessus, veuillez l’indiquer, s’il vous plaît.
Café des idées : Veuillez soumettre un bref aperçu de votre idée/projet ( 150 mots max.) et une courte note biographique (150 mots max.) en anglais, français ou allemand à Yvonne K. Jende (ykjende@mail.upb.de), Louise Louw (louisielouw@gmail.com), et Emiliano Castillo Jara (s6emcast@uni-trier.de) avant le 1er août 2022.
