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CFP: Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North – A NiCHE & Jackman Humanities Institute Series

Proposal Deadline: June 10, 2022

Series Publication: August & September 2022

In  partnership  with  NiCHE,  we  are  inviting  submissions  of  500-1000  words  for  a series  that  brings  together  interdisciplinary  perspectives  on  the  cultural,  social,  and environmental  dynamics  across  Indigenous  communities  and  settler  populations  in Alaska,  Canada,  Greenland,  the  Nordic  countries,  and  Russia  to  examine  the complex visual/textual  cultures  of this region.  Proposals of 150 words will be accepted until June 10th with publications running from  August through to the end of September.  If  you  are interested  in  contributing  to  this  series,  please  email  your  proposal  and  a  short  bio to  Isabelle  Gapp  at  isabelle.gapp  [@]  utoronto.ca.  Please  also  feel  free  to  write  to Isabelle  if  you would like any additional information or have any questions.  An honorarium  is  available  for  contributors  without  adequate  or  consistent  access  to institutional financial compensation, assistance or support.  For more information, pleaseconsult the following link:  https://niche-canada.org/2022/05/12/call-for-submissions-visual-cultures-of-the-circumpolar-north/

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CFP: „Crisis“ and Forced Migration: Manifestations of power in a changing world – 14th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

Hosted virtually in collaboration with the Human Rights Program at St. Paul’s University College at the University of WaterlooNovember 2-4, 2022

Submission deadline: July 15, 2022

Detailed call for papers available at

https://pheedloop.com/carfms22/proposal/start/?call=CALXZ134B27KWAU

The 2022 CARFMS Conference will bring together researchers, policymakers, NGOs, practitioners, students, displaced persons, and advocates from diverse disciplinary and regional backgrounds to discuss how to claim, exercise, or resist power in responses to the multiple, overlapping global forced migration crises that currently face the world. The conference will feature keynote and plenary speeches from leaders in the field and refugees, and we welcome proposals for individual papers, organized panels and roundtables Contact Info: Anna Purkey, Assistant Professor and Director of the Human Rights Program at St. Paul’s University College at the University of Waterloo. Contact Email: apurkey@uwaterloo.ca

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CFP War College of the Seven Years’ War

Fort Ticonderoga, NY/USA, May 19-21, 2023

Deadline: July 31, 2022

https://www.fortticonderoga.org/call-for-papers/

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought war to Continental Europe in a form not seen in decades. The outbreak of a continental war, the invasion of a neighboring territory, and even the players in today’s unfolding saga remind us of many historical examples, including the Seven Years’ War. During this global conflict unprovoked invasion and a drawn out war in Europe featured as some of the many aspects of this cataclysmic struggle. Whether from a comparative lens, or more specifically plumbing the nuances of the specific period 1754-1763, Fort Ticonderoga seeks proposals for papers broadly addressing the period the Seven Years’ War for its Twenty-Seventh Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War to be held May 19-21, 2023.

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CFP edited collection Spheres of Interaction: A handbook of Global Oceanic Encounters

Deadline for abstract: September 30, 2022

Global Encounters Monash (GEM) The Global Encounters Monash project explores relationships between First Nations peoples and those who come from across the seas. While our prime focus is on Australian First Nations and their history of encountering and interacting with people, technologies, plants, animals, and ideas from across the seas, we are interested in comparative stories of oceanic encounters and interactions. The Global Encounters team are looking beyond Australia’s coasts as we explore the nature of encounters around the world, from the perspectives of both insiders looking out and outsiders looking in. We are imaginatively examining encounters onboard the visiting ships, as well as those that took place on the traditional lands of Indigenous peoples. This project takes an expansive view of archives and sources as we explore texts, oral histories and stories, rock art and material culture, plant and vegetation histories, introduced animals, and language and linguistic evidence.

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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.