Kategorie: Call for Papers

Deadlines: Submission of Abstracts: September 1, 2022
Submission of Full Papers: January 15, 2023
Publication of the Issue: July-September 2023

Editors: 

Johannes Müller Gómez (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich/Université de Montréal), Lori Thorlakson (University of Alberta) and Alexander Hoppe (Utrecht University)

Information: 

Since the 1990s, the study of the European Union has been increasingly informed by tools and approaches borrowed from comparative political science. This “comparative turn“ in EU studies has taken place at conceptual, theoretical, and empirical levels. Both the analysis of the current state of the political system and institutional structures in the EU, as well as debates on historical polity-building processes and possible ways ahead, gain from comparative analyses of the institutional and constitutional setup of the Union and its functioning. Against the background of the current political and policy challenges the EU faces, it is high time to utilize the merit of analytical comparison—and the political system of Canada offers a splendid opportunity to do so.

The aim of this issue is twofold: First, it assembles comparative studies focusing on (parts of) the political systems of the EU and Canada to provide new insights into how the Union works. Second, the contributions of this issue will discuss how comparative analyses can improve our understanding of the EU and what the lessons, merits and limits of the comparative method are in EU studies.

We invite innovative empirical comparative analyses of the EU’s political system. Empirically, these studies can cover a broad array of foci as long as they explicitly compare the EU to Canada. The issue will focus on two general topics:

1. Constitution and institutions: This section discusses questions related to the constitutional development of the EU and Canada, their polity and institutional architecture and the functioning of democracy in a multi-level system.
2. Policy fields and decision-making processes: This section analyses how decisions are taken and implemented in different policy areas in the EU and Canada, including policy responses to crises, and how the involved actors and institutions interact.

Covering this broad range of aspects allows us to explore the potential of a comparative turn in EU politics on a conceptual and methodological level while at the same time giving insights into the current state of the art in using comparative approaches to study the EU.

More information: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/pages/view/nextissues#CanadaEUComparative

Deadline: April 1, 2022

University of Calgary/virtual

June 28-30, 2022

Abstract Submission Form

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‘The Countryside’ – a polemically generic term Rem Koolhaas has recently used to reposition debates about our cities to those of rural areas. While posited as ‘new’, it is, in reality, a well established mode of thinking. Through notions such as the peri-urban for example, geographers, sociologists, architects, urban designers and regional economists have all debated the urban-rural relationship for several decades. Under this framework we are obliged to consider the city and its architecture on its own terms, but also address the ‘rural’ in its particular context and, importantly, explore the parallels and mutual influences at play.

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According to this logic, the social, cultural, planning and design issues relevant in our cities find parallels outside the city fringe. The Right to the City echoes concerns about land rights. Gentrification resembles the pressures on arable lands through urban expansion. The sustainability of our buildings and neighbourhoods is connected to debates on the sustainability of rural areas.

Calgary, the host city of this conference, is a perfect example of all of this. It has heavy industry, a thriving business economy and a growing tourist sector. However, pockets of the city contend with poverty and gentrification. Others suffer disinvestment and require regeneration. Its architecture and public spaces are a combination of the ‘spectacular’ and the mundane.

As a city, Calgary also ‘pressures’ its surrounding lands. These include the Rockies, the Banff nature reserve, and the First Nations lands of the Blackfoot, the Stoney Nakoda and the Tsuutʼina. As such, it is both a site of opportunity and development in its own right, and the cause of environmental concerns and social pressures, beyond its conceptual and geographic borders.

Deadline: March 7, 2022

Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, May 25–28, 2022

https://canada-architecture.org/this-years-conference/

The Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada is now accepting paper proposals for its annual conference. Our conference will feature an opening reception evening on Wednesday, paper sessions Thursday through Saturday, tours, and a concluding banquet. Several events are planned.

Researchers, professionals and students from any discipline whose work relates to the built environment in Canada can submit a proposal by sending an abstract of not more than 250 words, accompanied by a one-page CV, to seac.2022.ssac@gmail.com. Please indicate which session from the following list your proposal addresses. Further details can be found in the Call for Papers.

• Architecture and heritage of the everyday
• Dis-placements: Spatial Stories of Migration
• Spaces for women then and now
• Religious architecture: new questions / new approaches
• Queering Canada’s Built Environment
• Industrialization in the field of building in Canada between 1850 and 1930
• Designing for accessibility
• Heritage for Whom? Conserving Community Spaces
• Globalizing Architectural Scholarship
• Citizens, history, and heritage
• Research by design: a tool of innovation in city making
• Rethinking major urban public parks
• Strategies for Urban Revival and Renewal in Canadian Cities and Towns
• Seeing, hearing, experiencing, tasting architecture…
• Current Research

Please send submissions no later than March 7, 2022.

Paper proposals will be assessed by a scientific committee including session chairs and members of the Society. Depending on available funds, financial support for the travel expenses of students may be provided following the conference.

June 4,  2022
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Deadline: March 25, 2022

Three heads were better than one: AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal. As members of General Idea (1969–1994), this trio – who thought of themselves more like a rock band than as an artist collective – have had a huge impact on the international contemporary art world.

The conceptual apparatus of their flagship enterprise, The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, though destroyed, has left a large imprint on culture. General Idea were a mirror of their times and a view on the future. They were cultural anthropologists, like Claude Lévi-Strauss; semiologists, like Roland Barthes; media savants, like Marshall McLuhan; and queer literary outsiders, like William Burroughs. They created a complex system that functioned as myth. Fact and fiction always blended in their work. So did irony and critique. They inhabited contemporary mass cultural and media formats with witty sophistication: the beauty pageant, LIFE magazine, television production. Their 1984 Miss General Idea Pageant was a parody of the ritual elevation and demotion of art stars, figured within the dominatrix persona and temporary reign of The Spirit of Miss General Idea. The Pavillion was an architecture elevated through language, constructed purely as a performative fiction. They said it, they did it. General Idea were social figures: artists with berets, businessmen with plans. One moment they were architects designing and building the Pavillion, then they were archaeologists sifting through its ruins. As cultural parasites they could mutate with the times. Little did they know that eventually their viral methods would be mirrored in a real-world crisis: AIDS.