Kategorie: Call for Papers

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

49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Franco identity in North America is performed, celebrated and experienced in as many different forms as there are speakers of French on the continent. Music and the texts and often hybridized French language that regularly inspire this music are similarly a diverse and pervasive part of Franco identity’s performance and patrimoine, simultaneously signifying the individual and the collective. Melodies, lyrics, beats and rhythms are always influenced by previous creations from shared local and global musical traditions, particularly in pop, folk, rap and hip hop genres that are often highly collaborative. Music lyrics in particular are a poetic language that can be influenced by or inspire other literary forms, both historical and modern. Where and how, then, are the imagined borders of Franco-American, French-Canadian, Acadian, Cajun and Québécois nationalities and their continental linguistic and cultural counterparts (Anglophone, Hispanophone, Arabophone and Amerindian, for example) crossed and connected in Franco music’s poetic language and literary counterparts?

This panel welcomes papers in English or French seeking to investigate the prevalence and relevance of popular Franco music and its connection to North American Francophone literature. In what ways do twenty-first century French-speaking North American musicians and their work influence the process of identity formation with respect to literature and poetics? At a time when identities are increasingly multiple and heritage is rarely homogeneous, how does Franco music’s poetic language reflect this globalized yet highly local process of identity construction?

Submission deadline: Sept. 30, 2017

Full Call for Papers

Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, May 10-11, 2018

The Department of American Literature and Culture, in cooperation with the Video Game Research Center, is organizing a two-day international conference “ExRe(y) 2018. Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture.” We seek proposals for papers and panels that focus on the topic of exhaustion and regeneration in American and Canadian literature and visual culture (film, visual arts, video games, television, and others) of the last seventeen years, from the year 2000 to the present day.

Confirmed plenary speakers are Prof. Marc Amfreville (Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV) and Prof. Zofia Kolbuszewska (Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław).

Further information is available on the conference website.

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Nov. 15, 2017.

The Canadian Journal of Urban Research (CJUR) is a multidisciplinary, scholarly journal dedicated to publishing articles that address a wide range of issues relevant to the field of urban studies. CJUR welcomes papers focusing on urban theory/methodology, empirical research, problem and policy-oriented analyses, and cross-national comparative studies. Manuscripts either in English or French are considered for publication. Over the years CJUR has become the go to reference for various urban issues ranging from poverty, immigration, homelessness, and community organization. Be part of an urban community of planners and scholars who aims to make a difference in our cities.

Manuscript preparation guidelines.

Manuscript Submissions: on a rolling basis

Call for Article Proposals

Deepa Mehta’s cinematic creations span social realities, literary narratives, history; and allude to Indian or Canadian or Indo-Canadian experiences. Her representations of cultures, women’s lives, history and society are extraordinarily phenomenal because of the choice of unusual themes that are both relevant and at times marginalized (like the plot she elects for Water). The choice of such themes ineluctably situates her among brilliant international film-makers for creating works of art that are incredibly unique and significantly relevant.

Full Call for Propsals.

Submission Deadline: Oct. 30, 2017