Kategorie: Veranstaltungen

Sixth Annual Meeting of the Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAREH, formerly known as NACEHF), May 19 – 20, 2017, University of Connecticut, Avery Point Campus, Groton, CT/USA

Following a half a decade of research in the environmental histories of Northeast US and Atlantic Canada, the 2017 NEAREH Forum solicits papers exploring the ties linking people and places throughout eastern North America and the northwest Atlantic. People have long moved, lived, worked, and travelled throughout this region, drawing its communities and resources into larger networks—both before and after colonization. Focusing upon the environmental histories of such connections, this workshop seeks to bring to light how such linkages defined, evolved, adapted, and fell apart as people scribed lines across the region’s lands and seas. In addition, the Forum invites explorations into definitions and redefinitions: how have we, and how should we define this (or these) regions? What new interpretations emerge when we compare conventional understandings with those emanating from environmental perspectives? How can the region’s past—and constructions of the past—inform collective responses to future challenges?

NEAREH 2017 invites proposals from scholars exploring these—and related— questions from a wide range of disciplines that fall under the wide lens of environmental history—including (but not exclusively) Native American/First Nations studies; gender, race, class, and sexuality studies; history of science; historical terrestrial/marine ecology; and labor perspectives.

The workshop will meet at the University of Connecticut’s Avery Point Campus in Groton, Connecticut. Across town, the village of Mystic offers a range of accommodation options. Low cost housing for those interested is also possible. Mystic is also regionally known for farm/fishery-to-table dining (more details to come), as well as hosting Mystic Seaport Museum and the Mashantucket-Pequot Museum. Excursions to both will be organized if attendees express interest.

Five hundred word paper proposals should be submitted to Matthew McKenzie  by 1 February 2017. Full papers, 25 pages maximum (strictly enforced), will be due by 15 April for pre-circulation.

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 27 – 29, 2017, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON/Canada

Keynote speaker: Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

In accordance with the theme of “From Far & Wide: The Next 150” for the 2017 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Folklore Studies Association of Canada/l’Association canadienne d’ethnologie et de folklore has selected “Cultures and temporalities” as the theme for the 2017 annual conference.

As disciplines historically concerned with quests of origins and traditions, Ethnology and Folklore have been seemingly indifferent to the passing of time and to the concomitant notion of time as change and process. However, social constructions of time have been at the heart of their recent preoccupations, most notably through research in intangible cultural heritage, material culture, food studies, new media, museum studies, tourism, transnational cultures, contemporary myths and rituals. Moreover, the forceful return of ethnographic methods and the rise of cultures of ethnic and/or authentic consumption are testimonies for the diversity of temporal articulations of cultures and many ways to consider the cultures of the time.

By selecting the theme of Cultures and temporalities, the organizers invite scholars of all fields across the social sciences and humanities to explore the evolution of ethnological ideas and knowledge across time, and the temporal articulations of cultural practices, know-hows and cultural representations. This conference aims to trigger critical reflections on the challenges of new conditions of ethnographic fieldwork in a context of globalized cultures and diversified temporalities. Slow culture, fast culture, rhythms, the time of urgency, menacing times, quests of origins, cultural transmission, time that flies, times of dreams, etc. are only but a few illustrations of the rich vocabulary of time that articulates and structures daily life and sociocultural discourses and practices. How do the objects of ethnology, folklore, museology and cultural heritage adapt to changes across society and the world at large? How should we conceive the future of our research objects in the context of an accelerated temporality, rendered unpredictable and diversified by technological innovations and the creation and extension of new infrastructures of mediation? What are the meaning and implications of these sociocultural changes for the relationship between fieldwork and scholarship, or research and society?

The organizing committee welcomes paper proposals in French or English that address the conference theme.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Fast food, slow food,
• Teaching ethnology and folklore: what future?
• Folklore, past and present
• Time and intangible cultural heritage
• The temporalities of museums in a digital age
• Indigenous temporalities
• Memory and difficult knowledge
• Future quests: material cultures of success
• “Real” and “fictional” times: culture and new technologies
• Time and fairy tales
• Time and temporalities of popular and traditional cultures
• Religious temporalities, time and religion
• Time travelling: tourism and heritage

As usual, proposals on any other topic in the fields of Folklore or Ethnology will also be considered.

Proposals shall be sent by email to the ACEF/FSAC President, Daniela Moisa by November 15, 2016. They must include a 100 word abstract (title included) with your name, department, institutional affiliation and contact information. Abstracts of over 100 words will not be accepted.

Panel submissions are encouraged. For panel submissions, please submit a 100-word panel abstract, a list of all participants, as well as separate 100-word abstracts for each presenter. Please identify and provide contact information for the panel organizer. Proposals for other session formats including roundtables, film screenings, performances and poster sessions are also welcomed.

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CAWLS 4th Annual Conference, May 31 – June 2, 2017, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON/Canada

As part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

The conference organizing committee invites submissions for participation in the 4th annual conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS). The committee welcomes proposals for single papers, thematic streams, multiple paper panels, roundtables, and workshops. The participation of researchers in union and community settings is encouraged.

The Congress theme, “From Far and Wide: The Next 150” seeks to engage our collective interest reflecting on the past 150 years in Canada as we look to the next 150. Building on this theme, CAWLS 2017 aims to promote discussions of the past, present, and future of work, labour, and labour studies, both within and beyond Canada. This raises a wide range of interdisciplinary themes, including the dynamics and implications of diversity and inclusion/exclusion, the role of institutions, the politics of labour, and strategies for improving and transforming work.

The organizers invite proposals that tackle any of the following questions:

• Who has counted as a ‘worker’ historically, and who counts now? How have racialization, gender, sexuality, class, age, and ability shaped the politics of labour in Canada, and what are their implications for the future of the labour movement?
• Has our conception of work changed much over the past 150 years? How does a focus on social reproduction and care work change how we understand both the past and the future of work?
• A key ideological, political, and cultural reference point is the so-called ‘Golden Age of Capitalism’ from 1945 to 1975 or so. How ‘golden’ was it? And what can be learned from this critical period?
• Since 1867 working-class movements within Canada have transformed and been transformed by macro-level events. What does this long memory teach us about the prospects for working-class politics and the future role and shape of trade unions in Canada?
• Has the normalization of precarity as a feature of the labour market forced a sufficient re-thinking of the labour market institutions, working-class politics or labour organizing that have developed over the last 150 years? What can we learn from other struggles around the world?
• How does the distribution of power between the federal and provincial government affect the construction a coherent labour policy in the 21st century?
• How does intersectional analysis inform the study of work and of labour movements? How is it informing the contemporary labour movement in ways that build more inclusive working-class communities, organizations, and struggles?
• What are the dynamics of continuity and change in terms of immigration, migration, and work?
• How do workers and trade unions engage with environmental movements and issues? What are the links to the historic struggle for occupational and community health and safety protection and regulation? What are the future prospects for labour-environmental justice alliances? What are the implications of de-growth politics for labour?
• What is the relationship between workers, unions, and Indigenous communities and how might connections be strengthened?
• How has labour internationalism changed over time, and what kinds of challenges and strategies will shape the future of labour internationalism?

Participants are not required to limit themselves to the above list. The organizers welcome proposals on all topics that highlight the past, present, and future of work and labour studies within Canada and beyond. Our goal is to create a final conference programme reflective of the broadest range of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary approaches.

New Voices in Work and Labour Studies: New scholars (graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty/researchers in the first five years of their appointment) are encouraged to indicate their status on their proposal in order to be considered for the New Voices in Work and Labour Studies Prize.

Submission requirements: Proposals should include a 250-word abstract for each panel/paper and a short bio for each presenter. Please email proposals to the conference organizing committee c/o Dr. Bryan Evans, Conference Chair, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University. Please submit your proposal to cawls2017@gmail.com.

To facilitate new conversations, the organizers encourage people interested in organizing panels, streams, roundtables and workshops to submit a CFP for inclusion in the CAWLS newsletter by December 1, 2016.

All paper proposals are due by January 31, 2017.

PLEASE NOTE: Accepted presenters must be CAWLS members in good standing by April 30, 2017.

For information on Conference fees and Conference support, please check the CAWLS website.

Conference, 5 – 7 October 2017, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada

The year 2017 will bring celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s supposed posting of his 95 Theses as a signal event of the Protestant Reformation, as well as celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Dominion of Canada. This dual anniversary will be celebrated with an exhibition of Reformation library treasures and an academic conference at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, jointly organized with the University of Ottawa and the University of Erfurt, and with support from the National Library and Archives of Canada, the Gotha Research Library, and the Embassy of Germany in Canada.

The exhibition “The Reformation – Translation and Transmission: Library Treasures from Germany and Canada” will provide a unique illustration of the worldwide impact of the Reformation by bringing together original editions and translations of Martin Luther’s works and other key Reformation texts from the Gotha Research Library, Saint Paul University and the National Library and Archives of Canada.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the academic symposium “From Reformation to Globalization in Canada, Germany, and the World” will explore the myriad and seminal forms of impact that the Reformation has had and continues to have on many aspects of religion, politics, society and culture in Canada, Germany, and in the wider world. Academic experts from many disciplines and community activists will explore these connections in panels and roundtables. The organizers also envision a graduate student workshop or seminar. The themes addressed at the conference could include but are not limited to the following:

• Spreading the word: the Reformation and the impact of new media on society from print to the internet
• The impact of the Reformation on philosophy and ideas, on worldviews (especially Western
• Modernity and secularization), on politics, on economics, on history, …
• Reformation and Migration
• Reformation and Justification: The Project “Not for Sale”, Resistance to Social and Ecological
• Injustice
• Religious Tolerance and Diversity in the past (Treaty of Westphalia, Augsburg) and current times
• Religion and Violence
• Reformation and Literature and the Arts
• Reformation and Language (Bible translations and the standardization of language)
• Dialogue: between Protestants and Catholics, inter-religious dialogue, religious-secular dialogue

The organizing committee invites proposals for papers (maximum 20 minutes) on these and other topics related to the conference theme, in English or French, as well as for academic posters. Graduate student participation is specifically encouraged. Proposals of not more than 300 words and a CV should be sent by email to Joerg Esleben by the submission deadline of 1 December 2016.

The organizing committee:
Catherine Clifford, Saint Paul University.
Joerg Esleben, University of Ottawa.
Louis Perron, Saint Paul University.
Myriam Wijlens, University of Erfurt.

38th American Indian Workshop, July 4 – 6, 2017, at Goldsmiths, University of London

Proposals are invited for the 38th American Indian Workshop, to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London from July 4 – 6, 2017. Papers are welcome from all fields and on any topic, though priority will be given to those that speak of the conference’s key theme.

This year’s conference will focus on the art of resistance and resurgence in the broadest terms. This includes manifestations of activism, political insurgency, conservation work, language and cultural revitalization, cultural resurgence and historical and anthropological analysis alongside more literal literary and visual representations and occasions of resistance. Resistance, similarly, may be interpreted broadly (to settler colonialism, extra-national imposition, and so on) or more specifically (to pipelines, cultural appropriation, and more).

A number of analyses focusing on the cultural and political concerns of Native American artists have been offered in recent times. Accordingly, many scholars working in the field of Native American Literary Studies have bevome interested int he connection between aesthetics and activism. The theme of the 38th AIW has been chosen in recognition of this fact, and the increased amount of attention that is being paid to the intersection between indigenous arts and contemporary tribal contexts. Papers will exmaine the complexity of the relationship between various artistic mediums and the day-to-day concerns of the Native artist; the relationship between the arts and community; and the aesthetics of resistance and resurgence. The organizers hope that speakers will examine those points of connection, continue the debate concerning the links between indigenous art and cultures, and suggest that resistance and resurgence are discernible within a broad range of work by indigenous writers, directors, musicians and artists.

Topics to consider may include:

• Art and acticism
• The art of Idle No More
• Visual and literary responses to NoDAPL (No Dakota Access Pipelines)
• Language revitalization
• Cultural conservation programmes
• Visual sovereignty
• Digital arts
• Mixed media responses to mineral extraction
• Literature and the art of rhetorical sovereignty
• Indigenous performance art
• Honoring the treaties
• Gameplay and tribal arts and languages
• Exhibitiing indigenous art
• Anticolonial/Decolonial art practices
• Cultural engagement work
• Visual cultures of protest
• Indigenising new media
• Graphic novels

The organizers may be in a position to exhibit a small number of artworks and therefore invite submissions from visual artists and filmmakers as well as writers and scholars.

Please send proposals of no more than 400 words + brief CV to Padraig Kirwan and David Stirrup by December 15, 2016. Speakers will be notified by January 15, 2017.