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CFP: Histories from the Margins: Innovation and Adaptation in Atlantic Canada

Atlantic Canada Studies Conference

May 11 – 14, 2022, University of New Brunswick, Ekwpahak | Fredericton, NB/Canada

Deadline: November 15, 2021

UNB’s Atlantic Canada Studies Centre cordially invites submissions of paper and panel proposals for the 2022 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference. With the suspension of the 2020 ACSC in Maine, and continued disruptions caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, this ACSC will blend papers/panels from the 2020 programme with new ones received and accepted in response to this call.

No history can accurately be called marginal history, but frequently nation-centered histories diminish the significance of stories and knowledge that do not fit within larger chronologies and have long pushed them to the wayside of conventional historical narratives. This marginality contributes to the violent colonial erasures of Indigenous Peoples, Blacks, and other minority groups within Canadian History. It also contributes to the isolation of the Atlantic Region, within the study of Canada and North America writ-large, as well as the Atlantic World, despite innovative and world-leading scholarship that demonstrates the connectivity and significance of this region within larger geographical frames. Yet stories of innovation and adaption are at the heart of Atlantic Canada, for example the Peace and Friendship Treaties, and are shared by the many peoples that make up this place and its past. Atlantic Canada’s success in flattening the curve of COVID-19 is just the most recent example of that legacy adaptation and innovation and reminds us that it is not, nor has it ever been, a margin of Canadian History.

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CFP: 2022 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy

Deadline: Feb. 1, 2022

June 3-4, 2022, Toronto

The 2022 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (ACCSFF) will be held Friday and Saturday, June 3-4, 2022, in Toronto, Ontario, at the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, one of the most important collections of fantastic literature in the world.

We invite proposals for papers in any area of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, including:

-studies of individual works and authors;

-comparative studies;

-studies that place works in their literary and/or

cultural contexts.

Papers may be about Canadian works in any medium: literature, film, graphic novels and comic books, and so on.  For studies of the audio-visual media, preference will be given to discussions of works produced in Canada or involving substantial Canadian creative contributions.

Papers should be no more than 20 minutes long, and geared toward a general as well as an academic audience.  Please submit proposals (max. 2 pages), preferably by email, to:

Dr. Allan Weiss

Department of English

York University

4700 Keele St.

Toronto, ON  M3J 1P3

aweiss@yorku.ca

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CFP The 18th RACS Annual International Conference «Russia and Canada: Summing-up 2021»

Moscow, December 9-10, 2021

Deadline: December 1, 2021

RACS invites proposals for papers for the 18th Annual International Conference of the Russian Association for Canadian Studies.  The Conference is open to scholars in any relevant discipline, and explicitly aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue. The first part of the Conference will be devoted economics, business and politics including

Arctic issues, the appropriate themes include but are not limited to the following: policies of the countries towards each other at the current moment, and enhancing international cooperation in the North and Arctic.

The second part will allow the contribution from Canadianists in different areas covering the themes of domestic social policies and cultural developments. Any other theme relevant to Canadian Studies (Canadian history, literature, etc.) will be also considered. Covid-19 pandemic measures and consequences are of a special interest as well.

The working languages are Russian, English and French. The Conference will take place in the capital of the Russian Federation – the City of Moscow. There is no registration fee for RACS   members, its partners or affiliated organizations, national Associations for Canadian Studies and ICCS members. The Conference will take place both in online and offline formats.

We welcome proposals for papers in Russian, English or French, consisting of an abstract (maximum 300 words) and a short biography of the author and appropriate affiliation (maximum 300 words) to be submitted to the RACS-2021 Conference, Steering Committee, Moscow, Russian Federation by e-mail file in .doc or .rtf format – racsoffice@mail.ru by December, 1 2021.

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Appel à Communications : Colloque « Quels nationalismes au XXIème ? Regards croisés Europe / Amériques »

Lieu  : Grenoble
Date: les 1, 2 et 3 juin 2022

Date limite : 31 octobre 2021 prolongé jusqu’au 17 décembre!

« Le nationalisme c’est la guerre » déclara en 1995 François Mitterrand, à l’issue d’un long discours de présentation des objectifs de la présidence française de l’Union européenne au premier semestre 1995. Prononcée dans un contexte d’intégration européenne, puis reprise depuis par de nombreux hommes politiques français, dont François Hollande et plus récemment Emmanuel Macron, en réaction à la montée de l’extrême droite, cette association entre nationalisme et guerre doit, en Occident, se comprendre comme la conséquence directe des deux conflits mondiaux qu’a connu le XXème siècle. Parce qu’il a inspiré les régimes militaires que l’on sait en Allemagne, en Italie et au Japon, le nationalisme a longtemps été discrédité par toute une génération, contemporaine, de près ou de loin, depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale.
Or, non seulement le nationalisme ne représente-t-il plus le même tabou pour les nouvelles générations, mais la montée en puissance des partis d’extrême droite et des mouvements populistes ces dix dernières années semble témoigner d’un retour en force de cette idéologie, d’autant plus flagrante qu’elle coïncide avec le déclin des partis traditionnels autour desquels s’était construit l’échiquier politique depuis plus de cinquante ans dans de nombreux pays occidentaux.
Pour autant, le nationalisme auquel nous assistons aujourd’hui n’est pas celui des années 1930 et il revêt différentes formes, à différentes échelles, régionales et nationales qu’il nous semble pertinent d’essayer de comprendre et de définir, dans ses multiples acceptions, d’un contexte politique et culturel à un autre.

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CFP for Special Issue of Canadian Literature: Poetics and Extraction 

Deadline: May 15, 2022

In “Tarhands: A Messy Manifesto,” Métis scholar Warren Cariou rewrites William Carlos Williams’ poem “This Is Just to Say” into a time capsule to be opened in a hundred years:

This is just to say

We’ve burned up all the oil

and poisoned the air

you were probably hoping to breathe.

Forgive us.

It was delicious

the way it burned

so bright and

so fast.

Cariou’s poem is an extraction poem in several senses. It is about oil and the petrostate, and it mirrors the modes and moods of a petro-capitalist imaginary. It is also an act of extraction—of mining, cracking, and refining Williams’ poem and the literary tradition. Cariou sums up the history and the poetics of the settler-colonial extractive state, with its illegitimate literal and literary land claims, its pretenses of conservation and of wondering “where is here” while occupying stolen land, and its always failing repression of the wilderness. For Cariou and his imagined reader, it all amounts to “just” a selfish and short-sighted folly. Situated within the manifesto form, the poem becomes available as one mode or element of a larger argument for cultural and social change.

Cariou’s intervention also belongs to traditions of resource, extractive, oil, and land poetics in so-called Canada. These traditions include Indigenous poetics as “land speaking” (Jeannette Armstrong) and resistance literature (Emma LaRocque); Confederation-era poetry like Isabella Valency Crawford’s Malcolm’s Katie; Robert Service’s mining ballads; the logger poetry of Robert Swanson and Peter Trower; oil poetry from Peter Christensen’s Rig Talk to Lesley Battler’s Endangered Hydrocarbons; diasporic poetics on place, identity, property, and land, including Dionne Brand’s Land to Light On, Canisia Lubrin’s The Dyzgraphxst, and Brandon Wint’s Divine Animal; plastic poetry by Fiona Tinwei Lam and Adam Dickinson; activist and anti-pipeline poetry such as Rita Wong’s undercurrent and The Enpipe Line; climate change poetry as in Watch Your Head; Indigenous, Black, and speculative futurisms such as Tanya Tagaq’s Retribution and Kaie Kellough’s fiction and sound performances; and myriad other examples not listed here.