Kategorie: Call for Papers

Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University

March 3-4, 2022, online

Deadline: February 14, 2022

“Just birth,” you smiled,
“creation, re-creation,
new paths cut
from old patterns”
— Lee Maracle, Ta’ah

Conversations about creation and re-creation seem difficult when the present realities
of the world appear to be antithetical to the premises of creation or re-creation. The pandemic, as it enters into its third year, has successfully ‘created’ a great amount of confusion among the people of the world — we are unable to concretely understand its nature, its potential, and the multiple variations that it morphs into, as it hits the world in successive waves. This confusion delays the prospect of containment or extermination of the virus and affects the virtues of hope and motivation that enable processes of ‘creation’ and ‘re-creation’. But the transformative and resilient potentialities of the virtue of ‘hope’ in individuals/communities have created/recreated multiple models of sustainability during the pandemic. Communities, from all over the world, have joined hands to ensure that we persevere and do not perish in the face of this difficult and confusing adversary — without causing a significant depletion in the share of the resources for the future generations. In the pandemic situation, it has become necessary for individuals and communities to take newer responsibilities. A part of these responsibilities is to ensure that sustainable access to food, healthcare, shelter, transportation, communication services, remunerated jobs, and natural resources are facilitated; but sustenance involves more than these tangible requirements. It also entails the creation of spaces and possibilities — the ‘headspace’ being a significant inclusion in this regard — that enable conversations, creativity, communication, and resistance as they are imperative to ‘sustain’ ourselves during a pandemic. In pertinence to this multi-nuanced understanding of sustainability and of spaces/possibilities that sustain — the Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University aims to open up a conversation, among scholars, academics, writers and activists, on the resilient and transformative potential of communities and individuals in Canada and India that enable sustainability during a pandemic.

Deadline: February 11, 2022

Graduate History Society, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia/Canada

March 18-19, 2022 online

https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/history/current-students/graduate-history-society.html

The Dalhousie Graduate History Society is delighted to announce that graduate students from all disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences may now submit abstracts to Dalhousie University’s 23rd Annual History Across the Disciplines conference. This conference is entitled “Encountering Colonialism: Land, Lives, and Legacies,” and will be held virtually, on March 18th-19th, 2022.

The conference is an interdisciplinary gathering of researchers that aims to promote new ideas, discussions, and connections. It will embrace all scholarship that explores the dynamics of interaction between and within colonial and Indigenous powers and peoples. Of particular relevance are discussions of demographic, cultural, economic, religious, linguistic, legal, material, and gendered encounters.

Applicants should submit a 300-word abstract and a short personal biography to the conference committee no later than 11:59 p.m. AST on Friday, February 11th, 2022. Successful applicants will be notified within two weeks of February 11th. The best paper presented at this conference, as decided by a panel of students and faculty members, will win the John Flint Prize (a $250 honorarium). To be considered for this prize, applicants must provide the conference committee with a final paper by Monday, February 28th, 2022. Presentations may be up to twenty minutes in length, and will be held in English.

This will be an online event. However, following panel discussions on Saturday, presenters who are in the area are invited to experience local Halifax culture with us in an informal setting. Details to follow.

For more information, please feel free to contact the conference committee, at dalconference2022@gmail.com. We look forward to reviewing your abstracts!

Contact Info:

Catherine Charlton, Dalhousie University Graduate History Society

Contact Email: dalconference2022@gmail.com

Deadline: February 1, 2022

Canadian Studies Centre, Aarhus/Denmark

10 – 12 August 2022

https://events.au.dk/nacs2021/home.html

In collaboration with the Canadian Studies Centre at Aarhus University, the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies is pleased to publish its 2nd call for submissions for papers for the thirteenth Nordic international, cross-disciplinary Canadian Studies conference, to be held in Aarhus, Denmark, in August 2022.

The theme of the conference – ‘From far and wide’ – may be taken literally or metaphorically. We are looking especially, but not exclusively, for contributions in the following fields:

• history / political science / literature & the arts / aboriginal affairs /
• Arctic & other regional studies / human & cultural geography / biography

Keynote speakers will be announced on the conference website as soon as they are confirmed.

Conference Dates: Friday, April 8, 2022 (held virually via Zoom)
Friday, April 29, 2022 (held in-person at Glendon College, 2275 Bayview Ave, Toronto)*

Submissions Deadline: February 1, 2022

The study of Canada is fraught with ironies and contradictions: on the one hand about Canada’s greatness, and on the other critiques exposing how Canadian settler colonial society reproduces itself through global structures of oppression. Navigating this terrain has made researchers understandably weary—whilst remaining hopeful for the future.

The 2022 Annual Robarts’ Graduate Conference will be confronting some of the mainstream representations of Canada with the realities of lasting systemic inequities and the lack of collective action for necessary change. Mobilizing ongoing frustration, impatience and fatigue in a critical and interdisciplinary study of Canada, this conference will reflect on these asymmetries and points of rupture, while also highlighting key pathways to transformation and futures of hope. How are mainstream representations about Canada reproduced and what makes them myths, charades and ironies? What are the gaps between representations and praxis? Where is transformative action being developed and what does it look like? Why are we so tired of trying to reconcile the multiple visages of the country?

This conference will be partly held online to accommodate presenters and panelists from near and far. Please note that for the in-person component of the conference, the Robarts Centre will not reimburse transportation costs to presenters and panelists.

Graduate students are invited to submit proposals for presentations that fit one of the following panel topics:

1. Addressing the Climate Emergency
2. ‘Canada the Kind’ on the World Stage
3. Extractive Industries and Canada’s Economic Priorities
4. Indigenous Resurgence
5. Indigenous-Settler Relations in a Time of Reconciliation?
6. The Myth of Multiculturalism
7. Race and Racism in Canada
8. The State Facing a Changing Canadian Society
9. The Well-Being of Canadians

We encourage students from a wide variety of disciplines to interpret these topics from their perspective. Students can, as a group, also submit panel proposals. Applicants will be notified by 1 March 2022 of their acceptance status and applicants will be offered an opportunity to publish their papers in the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies’ online publication Canada Watch.

Please submit proposals (max. 250 words) at https://form.jotform.com/RobartsConference/submissions by Tuesday, 1 February 2022, and contact robartsconference@gmail.com should you have any questions.

*The conference will be held in-person on 29 April 2022 if allowed by York University and public health guidelines. If not, it will be held virtually.

Centre for Canadian Studies at Brock University

Brock University – March 25-26, 2022

Deadline: March 1, 2022

The Centre for Canadian Studies at Brock University invites paper submissions or panel proposals on the theme „Canada at Play.“

This interdisciplinary conference will examine the links between play (in all its forms) and Canada. Paper topics can include anything from high-level professional or Olympic sport, to community recreation leagues, to any aspect of the idea of play that captures athleticism, recreation, health, and/or community.

This call is open to all disciplines, and the only limiting factor is that the paper must be on Canadian topics, broadly construed (geographically, thematically, regionally, etc.).
Sessions will be held at Brock University, but all conference sessions will also be streamed online, and presenters will be able to attend and present virtually if requested.

Potential paper topics include, but are not limited to:

– Sport/recreation/play and identity formation
– Sport policy and recreation in Canada
– Historical analyses of sport and Canadian culture
– Indigenous and decolonizing approaches to sport and play
– Play and Nationalism(s)
– Globalization and Canadian pastimes
– Canadian Diasporas
– Play and immigration
– Play and regionalism in Canada
– Play and education
– Play in spaces and places.

Submissions should include an abstract of no more than 500 words and a list of the authors‘ names and affiliation (university/college/organization/independent).

Submit to canadianstudies@brocku.ca by March 1, 2022.