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Appel à communications: Voltaire et les Lumières au Québec : histoire ancienne ou nécessité présente ? Perspectives historiques et lectures actuelles

61e journée d’échanges scientifiques de l’Association québécoise pour l’étude de l’imprimé

Centre d’archives Mgr-Antoine-Racine, Sherbrooke
7 et 8 avril 2022

Date limite : 1er octobre 2021

Le contexte

Une exposition de documents inédits de Voltaire, appartenant au professeur Peter Southam, aura lieu au Centre d’archives Mgr-Antoine-Racine, à Sherbrooke, des mois de janvier à juin 2022. C’est dans ce cadre que l’Association québécoise pour l’étude de l’imprimé organise sa 61e Journée scientifique avec le thème suivant : « Voltaire et les Lumières au Québec : histoire ancienne ou nécessité présente ? », qui se tiendra les 7 et 8 avril 2022.

Les Lumières au Québec depuis le 18e siècle

Dans l’histoire culturelle du Québec, Voltaire a été présent dès les premiers imprimés. Ainsi, The Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Québec rapporte l’exécution de Jean-François, chevalier de La Barre, dans son numéro du 16 février 1767. On y lit : « Le Febvre de la Marre a été condamné pour le crime mentionné ci-dessus […] à être décollé, et à avoir son corps jetté au feu, avec le Dictionnaire Philosophique de Voltaire, qui selon son propre aveu etoit un livre favori chez lui. » Mais c’est surtout dans La Gazette littéraire de Fleury Mesplet que Voltaire occupe une place considérable et où la philosophie des Lumières connaît une première véritable diffusion.

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CFP: Canada: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity

The 21st International Baltic Conference on Canadian Studies (online)

October 8, 2021

Deadline: September 5, 2021

Canada’s unwavering commitment to policies of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the fields of governance, education, research and culture has been enshrined in numerous legal documents and provides an outstanding example for responding to global human rights, political and environmental challenges. Canadian heritage is one of diversity, inclusion, democracy and multiculturalism.

The conference aims at exploring diverse approaches to Canadian experience past and
present, to stimulate a broad interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue covering a variety of subject areas from literature, language, film, culture, arts and media to education, history, sociopolitical and economic studies.

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CFP: Michael Ondaatje’s “Globe of Fear”: Refractions of the Father and the Fatherland

Conference on “Asian Literatures in Motion”
Organized by Rising Asia Foundation and Journal,
September 24-25, 2021, on Google Meet

Deadline for submitting abstracts: Monday, August 2, 2021.

Name of Organization: Rising Asia Foundation and Rising Asia Journal. www.rajraf.org
Contact emails: harish.mehta@utoronto.ca
and julie.mehta@utoronto.ca

Submissions are invited for the “Asian Literatures in Motion” Conference on Michael Ondaatje’s works. Papers should focus on the themes emerging from Ondaatje’s fiction and poetry, with appropriate theoretical underpinnings on the following broad topics:

  • Diasporic Dilemmas
  • Canada, Multiculture and Globalization
  • History as Representation
  • Search for Home
  • Art, Music and Architecture
  • The Postcolonial Conundrum
  • The Presence of the Absent Father
  • The Sri Lankan Civil War
  • The Body in Ondaatje’s Poetry
  • Imaginary Homelands
  • Consumed by Loss

Please submit your 300 word abstracts (along with a 200 word resume citing education, publications and research interests) by August 1, 2021 by email to: harish.mehta@utoronto.ca and julie.mehta@utoronto.ca mentioning “Asian Literatures in Motion” in the subject line.

Each paper presenter should speak for about 20 minutes, after which there will be a discussion and questions.

Final papers will be considered for publication in the Rising Asia Journal. Please see: www.rajraf.org

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CFP for a special issue on „Indigenous Histories,“ Journal Prairie History

Deadline for submissions: 1 Feb. 2022

The journal Prairie History, produced by the Manitoba Historical Society, publishes scholarly, feature length articles as well as shorter, popular articles, documentary selections, pictorial essays and reviews relating to the social, economic, political, intellectual, and cultural history of the Canadian West (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba) and the U.S borderlands. Prairie History is an illustrated journal.
With funding from the Winnipeg Foundation we plan on publishing a special Indigenous issue of the journal. Our goal is to present new and innovative writing on topics related to any aspect ofIndigenous histories in the West.
This is a call for submissions of essays to be included in this special edition.
Contributions could focus on pre-contact themes, topics related to land, treaties, residential schools, education, material culture, contemporary political and cultural themes, First Nations and Metis histories and communities and heritage, as well as broad topics such as reconciliation. Contributions regarding recent revelations regarding child burials at residential schools would also be welcomed.

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CFP: Online Conference Alice Munro at 90: Central European Interpretations

Budapest, Hungary

November 25-26, 2021

Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2021

Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary and Eötvös Loránd University are pleased to announce a conference on “Alice Munro at 90_Central European Interpretations“ held in Budapest, Hungary, on November 25-26, 2021.