Kategorie: Call for Papers

From May 17-19, 2018, the American Indian Studies Center at University of California, Los Angeles and its Southern California co-hosts will welcome NAISA, the largest scholarly organization devoted to Indigenous issues and research, to Yaanga (Downtown Los Angeles) on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Tongva.

Los Angeles is home to the largest Indigenous populations in the US. It is our aim to highlight the incredibly rich landscape of Indigenous Los Angeles at NAISA 2018. Our meeting will be set in downtown on what used to be the village of Yaanga before Tongva dispossession. As the city grew, so did Indigenous populations in Los Angeles. Many American Indians, Latin American Indigenous peoples, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians have come to the rich land of the Gabrieliño/Tongva for a variety of reasons, whether it was from following the rich trade of sea otters, fishing or whaling, or being driven from their homes by the economic tyranny of federal Indian policy, or fleeing persecution of the Mexican government against Indigenous peoples. Many from the Pacific and Global South would follow and make Los Angeles their home.

The NAISA Council invites scholars working in Native American and Indigenous Studies to submit proposals for: Individual papers, panel sessions, roundtables, or film screenings. All persons working in Native American and Indigenous Studies are invited and encouraged to apply. We welcome proposals from faculty and students in colleges, universities, and tribal colleges; from community-based scholars and elders; and from professionals working in the field. We encourage proposals relating to Indigenous community-driven scholarship.

Proposals for the 2018 NAISA conference can now be submitted at:  https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/naisa/naisa18/

The deadline for proposal submissions is November 1, 2017, 11:50pm EST

Colloquium Dates: March 7-10, 2018, Venue: Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows, Kohala Coast, Island of Hawai`i 

Fulbright Canada, and the Center for the Study of Canada at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh in partnership with the University of Hawai`i at M?noa, are pleased to announce the third in our annual Canada Colloquium series. These scholarly colloquia are aimed at addressing critical contemporary social, political and economic issues of relevance to Canada, the United States, and the international community. Our 2018 colloquium sets out to examine a broad range of indigenous issues, and, in particular, those that affect indigenous persons in North America, including the far north and with special reference to indigenous persons in Hawai`i. The colloquium, entitled Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Peoples: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and Reconciliation, will be convened at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel on the island of Hawai`i, from March 7-10, 2018. The colloquium will commence on Wednesday, March 7th and conclude on Saturday, March 10th.

The colloquium, which is open to proposals with a significant Canadian, American, or Canada-U.S. focus, seeks to explore a wide range of scholarly questions around the theme of Canada, the United States, and Indigenous issues. Disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary scholarly inquiries dedicated to examining the relationships between Canada, the United States, or Canada and the United States, Indigenous Peoples and complex issues surrounding sovereignty, sustainability, rights, and reconciliation – in an anthropological, cultural, economic, geographic, historical, literary, natural sciences, political or social context – are especially encouraged.

Further information on the Canadian Historical Association / La Société historique du Canada website.

Proposals are due no later than Oct. 31, 2017 

The editors of the Canadian journal Urban History Review are dedicating a future issue of the journal to the history of urban planning in Canada. The issue will be guest edited by Richard White, the historian of Toronto planning. Those interested in contributing should submit an abstract (in English or in French) of their proposed paper to him at richard.white@utoronto.ca. The editors are defining ‘urban planning’ quite broadly, and are open to a range of topics, historical periods, and approaches. They are looking for any empirically based articles that add to our understanding of the agents or institutions that strove, successfully or not, to prescribe aspects of the physical form of Canadian cities, at any time in Canada’s history. Abstracts must be received before the end of the day 31 October 2017, and those selected for inclusion in the issue will be notified promptly. The editors will expect finished papers (between 6,000 and 10,000 words) by mid-March 2018, and plan to publish the issue in late 2018.

See the Call for Paper

Submission deadline: Oct. 31, 2017

Le(s) chemin(s) de fer clandestin(s) : histoire, mythe, représentations

A century and a half after the abolition of slavery in the United States, the Underground Railroad, the formal and informal network of routes and people that helped fugitive slaves escape from the slaveholding South to freedom between the end of the 18^th century and the Civil War, still draws considerable scholarly attention, whether it be through investigating its history or debating its many representations in public memory, literature and various art forms (Schulz, 2016). Considered “a model of democracy in action,” “the nation’s first great movement of civil disobedience since the American Revolution,” and “an epic of high drama” (Bordewich, 2005, p. 4-6), the Underground Railroad has offered many fruitful opportunities for scholars and artists to deepen, question and even contest knowledge of the institution of slavery and understanding of abolitionism, as well as the representations of various aspects of the “color line” in the United States and North America more generally.

In this issue of LISA-ejournal, we would like to survey the ongoing research on the Underground Railroad since the turn of the 21^st century, in order to highlight the plurality of the concept itself by encouraging transdisplicinary dialogue between history, memorialization strategies and fictionalization in the arts and literature.

The history of the Underground Railroad has long been characterized by its permeability to mythic language. Early works on the issue, often written by abolitionists, evinced an interest in showcasing the heroic acts of men (and sometimes women) involved in a network primarily depicted as focusing on helping fugitive slaves escape from the slaveholding South to reach the Northern free States or Canada. Wilbur H. Siebert’s groundbreaking The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (1898) is a case in point: its approach emphasized a national conception of the network, glorified white abolitionists by collecting their personal memories, and promoted the view of an essentially northward route of the Railroad. When, in 1961, Larry Gara published The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad, the book was hailed as a successful attempt to alter this perception by establishing more firmly the mythical dimension of the Underground Railroad, which basically relied on the supremacy of white heroes to the detriment of free Blacks and the fugitive slaves themselves, on a tendency to overestimate the number of fugitives who actually fled using the Railroad, and on the silencing of the voice of the slaves who remained captive in the South. Forty years later, David W. Blight’s Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory expanded on Gara’s argument by presenting the history of the Underground Railroad as told by Siebert and his disciples as an opportunity for white abolitionists in the Northern United States to seek an “alternative veteranhood,” while their “homespun tales of helping slaves escape may have been a kind of white alternative slave narrative” (Blight, 2001, p. 234). In 2015, Eric Foner’s masterly Gateway to Freedom on the Underground Railroad in New York State was published to critical acclaim, as its author’s historical expertise “dispels the lingering aura of myth surrounding the Underground Railroad” (Varon, 2015).

Full Call for Paper in English and French

Deadline for Proposals: Nov. 1, 2017

Il en va du Québec comme des autres sociétés, il aime à se comparer.

Qu’on en juge par la popularité des classements en tous genres. Publics savants ou profanes, décideurs politiques ou économiques, médias d’information ou de variété, tous affectionnent ces mesures qui miroitent la place du Québec dans le monde. Le Québec progresse-t-il ou décline-t-il? Doit-il être heureux ou triste de son sort? Son niveau de vie, de bien-être, de pouvoir d’achat, d’éducation, de santé ou de loisir est-il enviable? Ses villes, ses universités, ses festivals sont-ils appréciés?

La polysémie des objets de comparaison évoque la polyphonie des questions posées, mais aussi la cacophonie des interprétations proposées. Car, de ces comparaisons en débat sont dégagées des avenues d’action: des spécialités sont valorisées, des trajectoires sont corrigées; des fonds sont débloqués, des politiques sont implantées. L’enjeu de la comparaison se déplace ainsi vers l’amont et vers l’aval, vers l’intention, l’objet, l’interprétation : comment mesurer – et définir – le cours d’une société? Comment mesurer – et prioriser – la valence d’un indicateur par rapport à un autre? En bref, quel modèle privilégier? De ces comparaisons en débat font jour des débats de sociétés.

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Le Québec et ses autruis significatifs appel à communication

Date butoir: 1er octobre 2017