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University of Louisiana, March 22 – 23, 2019

The Program in French and Francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette invites single and panel proposals (in French or English) for its 3rd Annual Conference. This year’s theme is „Icônes & Idoles“ (broadly conceived, all centuries, all areas of the Francophonie).

On sait que le destin de la francophonie en Amérique n’est pas étranger à l’icône littéraire et culturelle qu’est Jean-Louis, dit “ Jack „, Kerouac. L’ambivalence identitaire où il évolue superpose deux réalités culturelles et linguistiques qui fondent ses conditions d’existence pratiques en tant que sujet et en tant qu’écrivain. C’est ce continent kerouaquien double et ambivalent que concerne ici notre réflexion.

Cet appel de communications invite à réfléchir et exposer comment cette ambivalence féconde entre le domaine français et le domaine anglais contribue à produire, confirmer, renouveler ou déconstruire autant l’icône qu’est devenu Jack Kerouac que la connaissance que nous cultivons de son œuvre.

Date limite: 15 décembre, 2018

8th Congress of Polish Canadianists, 25-27 September 2019, Université de Lodz / Le 8ème Congrès des Canadianistes Polonais, 25-27 septembre 2019, University of Łódź

Over its 150 years as Confederation, Canada has undergone numerous political, social and cultural changes. It owes its current form of government and international position to certain political visions – or revisions – that can be traced back at least to the ideas of the Fathers of Confederation. Likewise, Canada’s present cultural formation can be said to spring from visionary practices of particular writers and artists, or to have been impeded by reactionary notions of others. One of the goals of this conference is to examine the ideas that became the foundations of the Canadian political and cultural present. It is equally stimulating, we argue, to consider those visions which, for one reason or another, were never actualized; to think on revolutions – whether in the political or the aesthetic sphere, or both – which either failed, or never progressed beyond the conceptual. What would present-day Canada and its artistic-literary scene look like if even a fraction of these (re)visions, revolutions or changes had been put into practice? And – from our own vantage point, in the here and now – what is the future of Canada and its culture? Will it be a modern, liberal state, or will it allow its imagination to be swayed by conservative values? Will the hard-won multiculturalist ethos of diversity endure in the arts?

In the hope of facilitating the development of new frameworks and invigorating the discussion of projected, unrealized or embodied Canadian futures as well as their representations in literature, film and other media, the organizers of the 8th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies cordially invite scholars working across various disciplines, as well as writers and artists, to submit paper and panel proposals which consider these and related questions within the broad field which we have indicated. Interdisciplinary perspectives are certainly encouraged; we also welcome abstract submissions from postgraduate students.