La Société bibliographique du Canada, Congrès des sciences humaines de Vancouver
Les 3 et 4 juin 2019, bibliographes et historiens du livre se réuniront au Congrès des Sciences Humaines tenu à Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique, afin d’étudier le rôle des textes comme vecteurs de conversations entre Canadiens de toutes les époques et d’examiner la mutation des formes du livre alors que celui-ci se décline à travers de multiples plateformes interactives et numériques.
Date limite: 30 novembre, 2018
BC Studies Conference, Thompson Rivers University, May 2-4, 2019
Thompson Rivers University is proud to host the international, multidisciplinary BC Studies Conference on the theme of Intersections: Peoples and Places in British Columbia, May 2-4, 2019. Thompson Rivers University is located in the beautiful city of Kamloops, on the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Territory that is situated in the Southern interior of British Columbia within the unceded traditional lands of the Secwépemc Nation. We extend our honour and gratitude to the Secwépemc Nation for welcoming us on their traditional territory
We are pleased to invite proposals for panels and papers on all areas of research on British Columbia, including those that address intersections within and between peoples and places throughout the province. We welcome submissions from scholars working in all fields, including the arts and humanities, law, education, social work, and the natural and social sciences. We especially encourage proposals that focus on marginalized peoples and/or places, and that explore relatively understudied or overlooked aspects of British Columbia’s past, present, and future. Proposals from Indigenous researchers are particularly welcomed, as are submissions from graduate students and community-based scholars.
Submission deadline: Dec. 1, 2018
Les 29-30-31 mai 2019, Université d’Ottawa
Les revues constituent un moyen privilégié pour étudier les représentations que dresse une société d’elle-même. Ainsi, au Québec, avec le début de la querelle entre les régionalistes et les exotiques, opposant initialement L’Action française (1917) au Nigog (1918), un siècle de modernité s’ouvre pour les revues intellectuelles québécoises. Elles tournent alors la page sur l’âge prémoderne, revendiquent l’autonomie intellectuelle et se différencient, selon les registres et les spécialités, entre revues d’idées, artistique et savante (Fortin, 2006).
Des études fouillées ont déjà enrichi notre connaissance de certaines revues-phares, de leurs réseaux et de leurs idéologies. Le colloque « La modernité en revues » veut pousser plus loin ces explorations en invitant les chercheur·e·s en littérature, humanités et sciences sociales à venir présenter leurs travaux touchant au vaste corpus des revues québécoises des cent dernières années. Nous cherchons à comprendre le rôle primordial des périodiques et de la presse dans la structuration générale de la vie intellectuelle québécoise (Lamonde, Bergeron, Lacroix et Livernois, 2017 ; Cambron, Côté et Gagnon, 2018).
Date limite: 7 décembre, 2018
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.