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Activities

As part of our activities, the Emerging Scholars Forum organizes a conference for ECRs, which has been held annually since 2004. We are also part of the annual conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS), where we organize two panels for ECRs. Both formats offer a space to present work-in-progress papers and discuss them with colleagues from different career stages and disciplines. In this way, we want to support emerging scholars entering and shaping academic structures. Other formats (co-) organized by the Emerging Scholars Forum include online workshops and colloquia.

One of our core aims is to provide an interface for existing networks of emerging researchers whose work engages with Turtle Island, and thus to contribute to facilitating and deepening regional, national, and international cooperation among ECRs. In addition to regional exchange and collaborations in German-speaking countries, the Emerging Scholars Forum also actively contributes to the networking of international ECRs, for instance as part of the International Network of Emerging Scholars in Canadian Studies.


RECENT ACTIVITIES

Emerging Scholars Colloquium at the 46th Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS)

Embassy of Canada to Germany, Berlin (Germany), February 26 – March 1, 2025

The Emerging Scholars Colloquium is organized by the Emerging Scholars Forum (NWF/ESF) of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS) as part of the 46th Annual Conference of the GKS “The North: Changes, Challenges, Opportunities”. It is open to all emerging scholars working and wishing to discuss their ongoing or planned projects in various disciplines connected to Canadian and Quebec Studies.

Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2024

Please find the Call for Papers here.

21st Conference of the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS)

Territory, Tension, and Taboo: Canada in Crisis

University of Bremen, 10-11 October 2024

Please find the Call for papers here.

EMERGING SCHOLARS FORUM ACTIVITIES IN GRAINAU 2024

Emerging Scholars Forum I

(Saturday, February 17, 2024 | 15:30–17:00 | Alpspitz)

Chair: Lea Kröner (Freie Universität Berlin)

Johanna Lederer (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstatt): Indigenous Futures and Mobilities in the ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards Home Exhibition (Respondent: Geneviève Susemihl)

Anne van der Pas (Freie Universität Berlin): (In)voluntary Enfranchisement as a Means for “Gradual Civilization” (Respondent: Petra Dolata)

Emerging Scholars Forum II

(Sunday, February 18, 2024 | 9:00–10:30 | Zugspitz)

Chair: Nicole Koenigsknecht (Universität Wien)

Yvonne K. Jende (Universität Paderborn): Contemporary Anglophone Memoir between Genre Theory and Publishing Practice

Nadine J. Menghin (Universität Augsburg): Shifts in Perception of Nature in Contemporary Nature Writing in Canada

Isaac Würmann (Freie Universität Berlin): The Golden Boy: Weak Hope at the Heart of the Continent

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