Kategorie: Call for Papers

4-6 July 2022, University of Kent, Canterbury/UK

http://www.transatlanticstudies.com

Deadline for panel and paper proposals: 15 January 2021

The TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in a variety of disciplines, including (but not limited to): history, politics and international relations, and literary studies. All transatlantic-themed paper and panel proposals from these and related disciplines are welcome.

The conference is organised around a number of subject themes, each of which is convened by members of the conference programme committee. If you would like to discuss your paper or panel proposal prior to submission, please contact the relevant programme committee members. This year’s subject themes are:

Diplomatic and international history

David Ryan, david.ryan@ucc.ie, Chris Jespersen, christopher.jespersen@ung.edu

Political and intellectual history

Joe Renouard, jrenoua1@jhu.edu, Gaynor Johnson, G.L.Johnson@kent.ac.uk

Social, cultural and religious history

Finn Pollard, fpollard@lincoln.ac.uk, Kathryn Gray, kathryn.gray@plymouth.ac.uk

International Relations and Security Studies

Michele Testoni, mtestoni@faculty.ie.edu, Joe Renouard, jrenoua1@jhu.edu

Literature, film, and theatre

Donna Gessell, donna.gessell@ung.edu, Finn Pollard, fpollard@lincoln.ac.uk

Transatlantic memory and heritage

Kristin Cook, kc31@soas.ac.uk, Kathryn Gray, kathryn.gray@plymouth.ac.uk

Latin America in a transatlantic context

Robert Howes, robert.howes@kcl.ac.uk, Thomas Mills, t.c.mills@lancaster.ac.uk

Ethnicity, race and migration

Thomas Mills, t.c.mills@lancaster.ac.uk, Tony McCulloch, tony.mcculloch@ucl.ac.uk

Special subject theme:

The TSA is pleased to join SOAS and the University of York in welcoming proposals that seek to better understand the UK-US nuclear relationship as enshrined in the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA). This arrangement formalizes the US support for the UK’s nuclear weapons system, and regulates exchanges of sensitive nuclear materials and know-how between the two countries. The Mutual Defence Agreement has been regularly renewed since its inception, with the next renewal due in 2024.

While the nuclear relationship is commonly thought of as being at the heart of what is referred to as the “special relationship”, there is no academic centre in either the US and UK that has a sustained focus on this topic, and scholarly literature about it is sparse. The TSA thus encourages proposals for papers that elucidate and interrogate the Mutual Defence Agreement and UK-US nuclear relationship, drawing on traditional strategic studies, peace studies and critical perspectives.

For queries, please contact Professor Dan Plesch: dp27@soas.ac.uk

Papers in Canadian History & Environment

Qu’est-ce que le PiCHE? Bonne question !

PiCHE est une série de recherches évaluées par des pairs, publiée depuis 2018, consacrée aux études de haute qualité sur l’histoire environnementale du Canada.

En tant que publication numérique, PiCHE permet aux chercheurs d’atteindre un large public tout en offrant un chemin plus rapide vers la publication. Il s’agit d’un accès libre et soutient des normes rigoureuses d’examen par les pairs. En outre, il offre la possibilité de publier des œuvres riches en outils de communication. On dirait des cartes; des photos; des vidéos; de l’art numérique; des ensembles de données statistiques, nous accueillons tout ce que vous pouvez imaginer !

Les articles sont archivés dans les bibliothèques de l’Université York et promus par le réseau de NiCHE.

Nous accueillons également des contributions des chercheurs émergeants ou établis travaillant à travers les disciplines; dans les humanités environnementales ou sciences sociales; situes dans les universités, les établissements publics ou les organismes communautaires. Nous acceptons les soumissions en français et en anglais. Pour plus d’informations, contactez l’équipe de PiCHE par email.

June 09 – 11, 2022 Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies University of Marburg, Germany

Deadline: January 15, 2022

https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb10/mzks/journeys-across-b-orders-in-canadian-studies

It has almost become a truism that the Covid19-Pandemic has thrown the notion of borders into greater relief once again. While borders between states were closed to people and traffic, the virus was able to transgress geographical and political borders as well as bodily borders, thus not only journeying across borders but also effecting a change in ordering systems and apparently stable orders. Such transgressions, which revealed the vulnerability of b/orders, present an interesting contrast to people’s inability to travel that ties in with the general idea that journeys appear as a dynamic movement, whereas b/orders seem to be stable constructs. In fact, journeys and borders, as well as systems of order, can be considered concepts that determine one another when we regard journeys across b/orders as transgressive movements that highlight the existence of physical as well as conceptual borders. So, while the concept of the border is often understood as a principle imposing and maintaining order, a matter of stability, Johan Schimanski and Stephan Wolfe insist on perceiving the border as “dynamic, a phenomenon constantly undergoing processes of both fixing and blurring” (2017). Moreover, journeys impact on the understanding/self-image of nation and individual, belief in liberal values, human rights, the other and the notion of belonging or the co-dependency between Global North/ South. Therefore, journeys across borders bring about unique narratives and questions.

Borders, as conceptual as well as highly visible lines that structure orders, realms and places, have always been at the heart of political, social or cultural endeavours and struggles. For example, only four years before the pandemic intervened in orders across the globe, borders and ideas of order became highly visible in migrants’ and refugees’ attempts to reach places they hoped would provide them with safety from war, hunger, and violence and with a better life. The interplay of bodies and borders in migration or their reciprocal definition and determination highlight how movements produce meaning and raise awareness of material borders and bodies. Such movements raise the question on whether the body of the migrant de/stabilizes the b/order – a question that cannot be limited to geographical journeys but that also includes metaphorical ones (inward/ outward).

Mar. 24-27, 2022 – Washington, DC

Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Washington, DC

Deadline: Nov. 1, 2021

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing travel restrictions, we are postponing our biennial conference. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), the Association will now host its 26th biennial conference from March 24-27, 2022, in Washington, DC. The conference is open to all proposals with a significant Canadian focus. We welcome papers and panel proposals from graduate students, professors, independent scholars, and practitioners on all diverse and critical perspectives related to the theme, ‘Canada: Near and Far’. The conference page will be updated frequently as additional information becomes available, and as the date of our meeting approaches.

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Atlantic Canada Studies Conference

May 11 – 14, 2022, University of New Brunswick, Ekwpahak | Fredericton, NB/Canada

Deadline: November 15, 2021

UNB’s Atlantic Canada Studies Centre cordially invites submissions of paper and panel proposals for the 2022 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference. With the suspension of the 2020 ACSC in Maine, and continued disruptions caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, this ACSC will blend papers/panels from the 2020 programme with new ones received and accepted in response to this call.

No history can accurately be called marginal history, but frequently nation-centered histories diminish the significance of stories and knowledge that do not fit within larger chronologies and have long pushed them to the wayside of conventional historical narratives. This marginality contributes to the violent colonial erasures of Indigenous Peoples, Blacks, and other minority groups within Canadian History. It also contributes to the isolation of the Atlantic Region, within the study of Canada and North America writ-large, as well as the Atlantic World, despite innovative and world-leading scholarship that demonstrates the connectivity and significance of this region within larger geographical frames. Yet stories of innovation and adaption are at the heart of Atlantic Canada, for example the Peace and Friendship Treaties, and are shared by the many peoples that make up this place and its past. Atlantic Canada’s success in flattening the curve of COVID-19 is just the most recent example of that legacy adaptation and innovation and reminds us that it is not, nor has it ever been, a margin of Canadian History.