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CFP Toronto Chic Symposium

Toronto Chic Symposium
Friday, September 30th, 2022
Jackman Humanities Building, University of Toronto

Deadline: June 15, 2022

In recent years, Toronto has steadily positioned itself as a fashionable city. References to “Hogtown” and “Toronto the Good” have long been replaced with the upbeat “T. Dot” and the slick moniker “the 6ix” — made famous by the celebrated Toronto-born rap artist, Drake. In Who’s Your City? (2008), Richard Florida praised Toronto’s “messy urbanism,” and finding his adopted city a hotbed of diversity, culture and intellectualism, he characterized Toronto as a creative city. In the last decade, Toronto’s global profile has continued to rise. In 2014, Vogue declared Queen West the second coolest neighbourhood in the world, and after the celebrations of the 2019 NBA season, the city was awash in spectacle and grandeur. Nevertheless, Toronto has also been the subject of mayoral scandal and ridicule, and, in the latest decade, a site of much violence and protest. Additionally, the city has seen the loss of major cultural institutions such as concert halls, theatres, fashion weeks and brick-and-mortar stores. In the wake of COVID, Toronto creatives have been prompted and forced to venture into online and remote modes of work and presentation. Indeed, the new millennium has offered an opportunity to investigate how Toronto artists, designers, writers, filmmakers and thinkers have fashioned their city to reflect a more contemporary vision for Toronto’s urban imaginary.

In “Chic Theory” (1997), Joanne Finkelstein acknowledged that “The emphasis that city life gives to appearances concentrates attention on the fashionable.” In this regard, this symposium reflects larger discourses as they relate to urban change in Toronto. In particular, this symposium is in dialogue with the locational histories of fashion that have been investigated in Berliner Chic (Ingram and Sark, 2011), Wiener Chic (Ingram and Reisenleitner, 2014), Montreal Chic (Sark and Bélanger-Michaud, 2016) and L.A. Chic (Ingram and Reisenleitner, 2018). These texts demonstrate how fashion, understood broadly as both a signifier of clothing and style and as a barometer of social, technological and political change, is an integral component of the city.

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Appel à communications : L’imprimé à l’université : l’université à l’imprimé Archives, histoire, historiographie et représentations de l’université au Canada

62e journée d’échanges scientifiques de l’AQÉI
Université de Sherbrooke, Campus de Longueuil

14 octobre 2022

Date limite :  1er juillet 2022

Pour cette journée d’étude de l’AQÉI, nous invitons les chercheuses et les chercheurs à réfléchir aux rapports entre l’université et l’imprimé au Canada. Les communications peuvent concerner à la fois les imprimés produits par (ou pour) l’université, les acteurs de l’imprimé qui œuvrent dans le cadre des institutions universitaires, et les représentations de l’université dans différents types de textes imprimés. L’objectif est de saisir l’université en tant que médiation éditoriale et comme objet de représentation.
Liberté créatrice et expertise scientifique soustendent l’université et sa mission. L’édition savante bénéficie de cette logique : sans l’université en effet, comment justifier la production des ouvrages spécialisés, qui apparaîtraient à la limite telles des anomalies du systèmelivre (inaptes à rejoindre un lectorat suffisant ou à générer des profits)? Certaines autres formes d’imprimés émanant de l’université répondent à des impératifs institutionnels (voire strictement administratifs). On peut penser au statut particulier des archives universitaires, qui échappent aux canaux habituels d’édition et de circulation. La diversité et l’hybridité de la littérature grise lui confèrent un intérêt particulier. C’est sans compter leur importance pour l’historiographie des campus ou lhistoire des départements
et institutions : il ne s’agit pas que des archives de l’université, mais de ce qui s’en est dit à différents moments et de ce qu’elles révèlent sur différents moments de l’histoire de l’éducation. D’autres documents encore, complètement étrangers à l’institution, sont ultérieurement repris par elle ou lui sont confiés : elle agit alors à titre de spécialiste du patrimoine et assure un service à l’ensemble de la société. Mais l’université a d’autres manières de s’inscrire dans le social. Elle a, de tout temps, fait l’objet de représentations littéraires ou médiatiques. On ne compte plus les essais qui annoncent la faillite de l’université ni les romans qui s’appliquent, diraiton, à éventer les excentricités des membres de cette communauté. Non seulement l’ensemble de ces représentations nous informent quant aux mythes, aux croyances, aux pratiques de l’université; elles contribuent en partie à façonner ceuxci. Si les empreintes textuelles du monde universitaire relèvent avant tout du domaine symbolique, elles participent néanmoins à instituer l’université, induisant certaines « lectures » sociales de l’université.

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CFP for edited collection: Dave Sim: Comics Iconoclast

Deadline for abstracts: July 31, 2022

Co-Editors Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman (Dave Sim: Conversations, Chester Brown: Conversations, Seth: Conversations, Jim Shooter: Conversations, Steve Gerber: Conversations, Approaching Twin Peaks: Essays on the Original Series, and The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels) seek original, previously unpublished essays on the work of Dave Sim for a book of critical approaches on Sim, tentatively titled Dave Sim: Comics Iconoclast, to be published by McFarland.

Recommended themes: formal, historical, and thematic considerations, including Sim’s role as ground level self-publisher and how this position as comics industry outsider impacts his work; Sim as specifically Canadian artist; his advances and innovations in the graphic narrative form; intertextual or meta elements of his work, specifically in his magnum opus, Cerebus, including satire and parody; Sim’s innovative use of the episodic, periodical format in long-form storytelling; Sim’s testing of the limits of what constitutes a ‘comic’; realism vs. fantasy; caricature and photo-realism; generic transgressions; world-building; issues of gender, religion, and politics. Essays on all of Sim’s work (Cerebus, Judenhass, Glamourpuss, Cerebus in Hell, The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, early short works, essays, electronic media) are encouraged.

Please submit proposals of 200-300 words. Proposal due date: July 31, 2022.

Send proposals to davesimcomicsiconoclast@gmail.com

Final essay due date: November 30, 2022. Recommended length: 5,000-7,500 words although longer essays will be considered.

Planned publication date: fall 2023.

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CFP Postgraduate Conference: Participation in Postcolonial Wor(l)ds

September 29 – October 1, 2022, Düsseldorf

https://www.postcolonial-participation.hhu.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Fakultaeten/Philosophische_Fakultaet/Anglistik_und_Amerikanistik/Ang5_Anglophone/Dateien/PoCo_Call_for_Papers.pdf

Deadline: June 30, 2022

Participation both depends on and produces agency. Therefore, it is always embedded in power structures and power remains unequally distributed. Though empires are long gone, neo-colonial structures of domination continue to exploit the so-called Global South, to privilege Eurocentric knowledge traditions over non-Eurocentric knowledge, and to exclude racialized subjects or people and communities from erstwhile colonized countries from power positions. For decades, postcolonial subjects have worked against imperial forms of oppression. They continuously labor to create space for local and hitherto marginalized world views and experiences. Processes of (self-)translation produce spaces of articulation and enable participation. Particularly in migratory contexts, knowledge and experience travel and are translated (or not), allowing for self-assertive and dynamic participation. Through complex practices of translation as well as a multiplicity of other strategies, postcolonial subjects reclaim their right to participate in diverse fields of global exchange such as economy, politics or discourse.

Although postcolonial literatures facilitate discursive and social participation of marginalized groups, the very access to literature also is subject to regulative forces such as the publishing industry, raising far-reaching questions concerning the rights and possibilities of participation in the literary field. Not only do books have to be considered marketable to enter the global literary field, but authorship as a form of participation in the broader literary and public sphere is entangled in normative structures. In this regard, factors such as race, class, sex, gender, and sexuality are highly influential: Only recently, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the renowned Booker Prize. As she shared the prize with Margaret Atwood, a white male BBC journalist referred to the winners as “Margaret Atwood and another author”. Evidently, participation in the global literary market is marked by central institutions of the field, such as media, editors and publishing houses, which are often located in the Global North. Digital cultures and alternative forms of publishing offer platforms for participation from postcolonial cultures.

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Appel à communications dans le cadre des ateliers Congrès de l’IdA 2023 (13, 14 et 15 juin 2023 à Lyons)

 1.       Présentation du Congrès de l’Institut des Amériques

Chaque année depuis 2002, l’Institut des Amériques (IdA) organise un colloque international sur une thématique phare.

Afin d’embrasser des thématiques plus variées et de promouvoir le dialogue le plus large possible dans les études interaméricaines ou comparatistes, l’IdA a choisi d’organiser un congrès biennal, ambitieux, sensible aux nouveaux paradigmes en sciences sociales ainsi qu’à la transformation des savoirs en politiques publiques, convivial et ouvert sur des manifestations culturelles.