Kategorie: Veranstaltungen

Student-Focused Conference, March 18, 2017, Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Landuage and Education (CIRCLE), Carleton University (Algonquin Territory), Orrawa, ON/Canada

Carleton University’s Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language and Education (CIRCLE) and the Indigenous and Canadian Studies Graduate Community (ICGC) is pleased to announce its fourth annual student research conference that will take place on March 18, 2017 at Carleton University.

The theme of this year’s event is Reckoning with Canada at 150: Critical Perspectives and Indigenous Sovereignties with a special keynote address by Nēhiyaw writer and community organizer Erica Violet Lee. This will be a forum for both Indigenous and non- Indigenous researchers, students, activists and artists to come together to share their work. In light of Canada’s 150th anniversary, we are looking to centre insights that critically engage with Indigenous experiences and realities. We encourage participation by artists, activists, organizers, community members and all experts (academic and non-academic).

The proposed sub-themes are:

• Our Responsibilities to Our Mother: Land Defence and Water Protection – Reconciliation; for Whom?
• Decolonizing Settler Logic and Imagining the Next 150 years on Turtle Island
• Queering, Unsettling and (de)Gendering the 150th
• Self-Care, Refusal and Healing in the Academy
• Sacred Spaces and Spirituality as Places of Learning and Refuge
• Decolonial Practices and Positionalities
• Immersive Approaches to Indigenous Language Teaching
• Digital Disruption and Decolonial Technology

Participation can be in the form of a paper presentation, a presentation of work-in-progress, workshops, paper panels, roundtable discussions, artistic performances (music, storytelling, etc) and more. Presentations by individuals will be limited to 20 minutes with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. Workshops, roundtables and panels will be limited to 90-120 minutes, based on number of participants.

Individual proposals should be 250 words in length and clearly outline the topic of your research, and the nature and format of your anticipated involvement. Performances and workshop proposals should indicate the nature of the expressive art or workshop. Panel and roundtable proposals should be 400 words in length and include an overall description, a title, individual paper titles, and the contributions of individual participants.

The deadline for submissions is February 3rd, 2017. Submit your proposals via email and clearly identify your name, academic or community affiliation, and proposal title in the body of the email. Any questions can also be sent to this address. Applicants will be contacted by February 15th to confirm participation. Further information about the conference will be posted on the CIRCLE website.

Colloque de l’Association des Jeunes Chercheurs Européens en Études Québécoises (AJCEEQ), jeudi 5 et vendredi 6 octobre 2017, Montpellier, Université Paul-Valéry – Site Saint-Charles

En 24 ans, l’AJCEEQ a reçu plus d’une centaine de participants en provenance de 18 pays. Forts du succès de ses rencontres internationales, nous invitons l’ensemble des jeunes chercheurs européens en études québécoises (littérature, théâtre, cinéma, BD, art, histoire, histoire de l’art, anthropologie, géographie, sociologie, linguistique, chanson, danse, muséologie…) à participer à notre 8ème colloque international.

Après Paris, Gênes, Montréal (ACFAS), Innsbruck, Venise et Berlin, l’AJCEEQ sera accueilli par lÄUniversité des Arts, Lettres, Langues, Sciences Humaines et Sociales Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (France), avec le soutien de l’école doctorale 58 – Langues, littératures, cultures, civilisations (LLCC) et de la Direction des relations internationales et de la francophonie (DRIF).

L’AJCEEQ est ouverte à l’ensemble de la recherche en sciences humaines portant sur le Québec. Aussi, nous invitons l’ensemble des jeunes chercheurs en études québécoises à proposer une communication concernant leur recherche.

Les personnes qui désirent faire état de leur recherche doivent s’adresser avant le 20 février 2017 à l’Association. Tous les jeunes chercheurs européens dont la recherche porte sur le Québec peuvent proposer une communication de 15 minutes selon les conditions émises par l’AJCEEQ.
La présence de pré-actes distribués quelques jours avant le colloque aux présidents de séance, – des universitaires spécialisés dans  les domaines abordés – fait de ces rencontres un événement à la fois fort studieux et très convivial.

Nous encourageons ainsi les études québécoises sur le continent euroéen en nouant des échanges intergénérationbels, interdisciplinaires et transnationaux permettant à certains d’entre nous de sortir de leur insolement.

La réussite de ces journées repose sur la divulgation de leur existence auprès des jeunes chercheurs et des enseignants-chercheurs ayant les études québécoises comme centre d’intérêt. Nous comptons sur vous et votre entourage pour transmettre l’information auprès du plus grand nombre.

Nous sommes ouverts à toute proposition pouvant aider l’épanouissement des études québécoises en Europe. Si vous pensez pouvoir collaborer d’une façon ou d’une autre à notre projet, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter.

Au plaisir de vous rencontrer, Le Comité d’organisation:
Elsa Guyot (France), Hélène Amrit (France), Anna Giaufret (Italie)

Calendrier:

• Soumission des propositions (un résumé de 1500 caractères maximum avec und bibliographie concernant la recherche présentée) ; un CV et vos coordonnées ainsi que les coordonnées de votre directeur de thèse : avant le 20 février 2017
• Confirmation d’axxeptation : avant le 20 mars 2017.
• Envoi du texte complet : avant le 30  mai 2017 (établissement des pré-actes).

Adresse email.

 

Conference of the American Society for Ethnohistory, October 12 – 14, 2017, Fairmont Hotel, ᐄᐧᓂᐯᐠ Wînipêk Winnipeg, Manitoba/Canada

Located at the intersection of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, the city of Winnipeg, which gets its name from the Cree word for „muddy waters“ rests near the geographic and latitudinal heart of North America on Canadian Treaty 1 lands. The long history of this place going back thousands of years is humbling given the communities of Assiniboine, Cree, Dene, Dakota, Inuit, Métis and Ojibwe who made the lakes, rivers, and prairies of Manitoba their home negotiated the first treaties following the confederation of Canada, sought Truth and Reconciliation and decided to be Idle no More. The rivers that drew Native peoples here also brought French traders to the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in 1738, while the British sailed their trading ships into the enormous bay they named after Henry Hudson and competed with the French for Indigenous allies and environmental resources. The Selkirk settlers established the Red River colony in 1811, and the intervention of Americans favoring annexation of the region contributed to the political chaos that spawned the Métis Red River resistance whose leader, Louis Riel, resisted the confederate government of Canada and US annexation pressures to found the province of Manitoba. In recent years Winnipeg has grown to become the seventh largest city in Canada, known for its flourishing arts scene, green spaces, the Manitoba and Huston’s Bay Company Archives, the Manitoba Museum, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the New Canadian Museum of Human Rights. Winnipeg continues to remain an indigenous space with one of the highest percentages of First Nation, Innuit and Métis peoples calling it home of any major North American City; it continues to be an intersection  between Canada’s indigenous and settler cultures. 2017 will mark the 150th anniversary of Canadian Conferedation. Please join us to celebrate this historical moment at a vibrant historical place.

Borderlands studies have reoriented understandings of settler and Indigenous interactions while reconsidering and complicating important links between the environment, politics, society, and culture in in-between spaces. Ethnohistorians continue to seek new methods, including incorporating oral history, literature, language revitalization, digital humanities, and community initiated projects into their scholarship in order to give voice to the stories of indigenous communities. This scholarship works to bridge the borders that continue to divide academia from communities. The American Society for Ethnohistory’s 2017 program committee encourages submission of proposals that will illuminate the visible and invisible borders created across landscapes, within societies, between cultures or political states, divide communities, and highlight the events and ideas that encourage breaking down walls and barriers as well as the bridges across borders and boundaries that seek reconciliation.

Please submit your proposal as a MS Word document to this Email address by April 30, 2017. Notifcation of the status of the submission by June 15, 2017.

Please follow the guidelines below for Individual Papers, Panles, Roundtable Discussion Panels, Film Screenings, and Poster Sessions.

Individual Paper, Poster Session, and Film Screening Proposal:
Please include with your abstract a brief, one-page curriculum vitae. When submitting your file via email to the above-mentioned address, please save the file as Lastname_Individual.docx and your CV as Lastname_CV.docx

PAPER or DISCUSSION TITLE
ABSTRACT: 250 – 300 words, single-spaced
Name
Institutional affiliation
Mailing Address and Email
Phone

Paper Panel and Roundtable Discussion Panel Proposal:
In your panel proposal please be sure to include a one-paragraph description of the panel that details the panel title, proposed Chair and Commentator for the panel, number of papers to be included in the panel, and for each of the participants submit the abstracts of individual paper proposals. For the files submittes, please save the entire panel proposal (including individual abstracts and panel description) with the Organizer’s Last name as Lastname_Panel.docx and then includ ebrief one-page CVs for each  participant in one document with the Organizer’s Last name as Lastname_CV.docx

Name
Institutional Affiliation
Mailing Address and Email
Phone

Audivisual Equipment: All breakout rooms at the Fairmont Hotel will include a computer LCD projector and screen. Plese make sure to bring your presentation with you on a flash drive and please make sure to let the prgram organizers (Cary Miller) know if you need further equipment for a film screening.

Program Committe:
Cary Miller, University of Manitoba
Rebecca Kugel, University of California-Riverside
Lucy Murphy, Ohio State University
Jennifer Brown, University of Winnipeg (emeritus)
Regna Darnell, University of Western Ontario
Rose Stremlau, Davidson University
Jennifer Jughes, University of California-Riverside
Patricia Harms, Brandon University
Nicole St. Onge, University of Ottawa

Conference, 10 – 13 May 2017, Hotel Meta, Szczyrk (Poland), organized by

The Department of American and Canadian Studies, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
&
The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Canada

The first of the intended series of conferences dedicated to the exploration of the complexity of East/Central European cultures — both at home and in diaspora — is a joint project of the Wirth Institute, University of Alberta, Canada, and the Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. As we initiate our cross cultural academic discussions in a year marking Canada’s 150^th  anniversary of Confederation, this conference focuses on topics relating to Canada and East/Central Europe.

For many decades the cultures of East/Central Europe have been either underrepresented or conspicuously absent from Western critics’ discussions. Comparative perspectives on East/Central Europe and Canada have been even scarcer. The discourse of “otherness” has been imposed on East/ Central European literary and artistic productions denying them significance and legitimacy. Citizens of these countries have experienced intense national, cultural and linguistic identity dilemmas. Both East/Central Europe and Canada have been historically multicultural although for many years the governments of these countries denied such representations.

We are interested in this historical multiculturality and the co-existence strategies that evolved or did not evolve within these ethnic mosaics.  We cordially invite interested scholars, writers and artists to submit paper proposals on topics pertaining to  the cultures of the region and its diasporas in Canada, as well as to the intercultural and transcultural dialogues between/among  these cultures. Analyses of literary and artistic representations and enactments of these complex cultures are encouraged.

We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers from all disciplines, including literature, culture, film, history, anthropology and politics. Interdisciplinary perspectives are encouraged. Comparative papers will be given priority. Submissions from graduate and postgraduate students at any stage of their research are welcome.

The following list of topics should be regarded as neither exhaustive nor prescriptive:

• Multiethnicity in East/ Central Europe: Diachrony and Synchrony
• After 1989:  East/Central European Cultures at Home and in East/Central European Diasporas in Canada
• East/Central European Cultures After 9/11: Local and Transatlantic Perspectives
• East/Central European and Canadian Models of Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives
• National,  cultural and linguistic identity dilemmas in East/Central Europe and Canada
• Minor Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe/Central European Cultures as Minor Cultures in Canada
• Indigenous cultures of East/Central Europe
• Dialogues between East/Central European Diasporas and Indigenous cultures of Canada
• Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics of Representation of East/Central European Cultures at Home and in Diaspora/Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics of Representation of the Cultures of Canada  in East/Central Europe
• Postcolonial, Decolonial and Postdependence Perspectives: Comparative Approaches to East/Central Europe and Canada
• East/Central European Contribution to Canadian Cultural Canon/The Impact of Cultures of Canada  upon East/Central Europe
• Intercultural, Transcultural and Crosscultural Dialogue Inside and Out of East/Central Europe
• Representations of Race and Gender in East/Central Europe and Canada
• Between the Idea of the Open State and Nation State Xenophobia: East/Central Europe and Canadian Models
• East/Central Europe, Canada, and Representations of Islam
• Religion and Identity Discourses in  East/Central Europe and in East/Central European Diasporas in Canada
• Literary and Artistic Responses to the Radicalization of Central Europe in the Face of Humanitarian Crises

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (alphabetically):

University of Silesia: Paweł Jędrzejko, Eugenia Sojka, Jolanta Tambor
University of Alberta: Wacław Osadnik, Joseph Patrouch

Deadline for abstracts:  February 1^st ,  2017

Notification of acceptance:  February 15^th 2017

Proposal submission website.  

(i) Individual proposals should be 300-400 words.

(ii) For panels, in English, French or Polish, please send the title of the panel and a 250-word presentation explaining the overall focus together with a 300-400 word abstract for each participant.

(iii) Please attach a short bio to your conference paper proposal.

All files should be clearly marked with the applicants’ name.

Conference fee  – covering welcome reception, all conference materials, coffee breaks, and conference banquet

100,00  Euro – full time faculty

50,00 Euro – students and part-time faculty