Kategorie: Call for Papers

Globe. Revue internationale d’études québécoises sollicite des propositions d’articles en vue de la préparation d’un numéro thématique consacré aux jeux vidéo.

Avec plus de 231 entreprises recensées en 2016 (Rapport TECHNOCompétences), comprenant de grands studios comme Ubisoft, Warner, Eidos et Gameloft ainsi que de plus petites entreprises regroupées au sein de la Guilde des développeurs de jeux vidéo indépendants du Québec (« la plus grosse coopérative de jeux vidéo indépendants au  monde »),  nul  ne  peut  contester  l’importance  de  l’industrie québécoise du jeu vidéo. Qui plus est, et comme le note la Guilde, «Montréal et Québec sont reconnus à l’échelle internationale comme des capitales du développement de jeux vidéo». Pour répondre aux besoins toujours croissants de cette industrie, la programmation, l’animation 3D, le design numérique et la conception de jeux vidéo sont maintenant enseignés tant dans le cadre de programmes universitaires que dans les formations offertes au niveau collégial. Les centres et groupes de recherche étudiant le jeu vidéo sont reconnus (on pense au Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) de l’Université Concordia, au groupe Homo Ludens de l’Université du Québec à Montréal ainsi qu’au laboratoire LUDOV de l’Université de Montréal). Enfin, en entrant au Musée de la Civilisation à Québec par l’entremise de l’exposition «Une histoire de jeux vidéo», ce que l’on qualifie depuis les années 1990 de dixième art a bel et bien marqué sa place dans le paysage médiatique et la culture québécoise.

Ce numéro thématique s’inscrit dans la foulée des approches plus locales de l’histoire. Car s’il existe des histoires globales du jeu vidéo telles que Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames (Herman, 1994), The Ultimate History of Video Games (Kent 2001), The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to PlayStation and Beyond (Wolf, 2007) et Replay. The History of Video Games (Donova, 2010), celles-ci se concentrent sur « les gros canons », à savoir les productions américaines, japonaises et européennes. À l’exception du chapitre sur le Canada de Dominic Arsenault et Louis- Martin Guay dans l’ouvrage Video Games Around the World (Wolf, 2015) et de quelques articles publiés dans des revues, entre autres sur les jeux indépendants (comme le Vol 7, No 11 publié en 2013 par la revue Loading… de l’Association canadienne d’études vidéoludiques), on a peu écrit sur la création vidéoludique québécoise pourtant fort riche.

En s’intéressant au jeu vidéo, Globe désire ouvrir les horizons sur ce qui se crée au Québec.  D’une part, il  ne s’agit  pas  seulement  d’examiner  la  production  depuis l’arrivée de la compagnie française Ubisoft à la fin des années 1990 et de la fulgurante croissance qui a suivi, mais aussi de réfléchir au développement qui a mené à la création de la Guilde. En ce sens, s’il est difficile de ne pas tenir compte des productions AAA de grande envergure, notamment au moment de la sortie d’Assassin’s Creed: Origins, il ne faut en revanche pas laisser pour compte les jeux vidéo indépendants autant, sinon plus, créatifs et innovants. D’autre part, il est tout aussi nécessaire de se tourner vers les autres communautés. En effet, loin des clichés antisociaux, le jeu vidéo est au cœur de la formation de diverses communautés. Outre celle des développeurs, il est nécessaire de souligner l’activité et l’impact des communautés de joueurs/euses sur la réception et de celle des collectionneurs/euses sur la conservation. Tant du côté des universitaires, de la presse officielle que de celui des fans très actif sur le Web, le discours des divers commentateurs/trices mène aussi à une certaine pensée du jeu vidéo québécois.

The full Call for Proposals can be found here.

Date limite: 1er Septembre 2018.

Laboratoire TIL (EA 4182), Center for Canadian Studies (Dijon), Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté, February 1^st, 2019

Margaret Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defense of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays and poetry. However, an aspect of her work that has come under less scrutiny is her work both as adaptor and as source for adaptation in media as varied as opera, television, film, or graphic novels. Recent critically acclaimed television adaptations of the novels The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) and Alias Grace (Amazon) have rightfully focused attention on these works, but Atwood’s fiction has long been a source of inspiration for artists of various media, a seeming corollary to Atwood’s own tendency to explore the possibilities of media (graphic novels), genres (science-fiction) and narratives (testimonial and historical modes) previously undervalued by the literary community. Indeed, whether approaching the account of Canadian settler Susanna Moodie (Roughing it in the Bush) or canonical texts of Western literature (The Odyssey, The Tempest), Atwood’s adaptations demonstrate a willingness to relocate narratives to contemporary settings, to build new generic sites (from prose to poetry; from text to image) and to focus on universal – but newly revisited – themes. Beyond the different media to which her fiction has been transposed, one could argue that Atwood’s multi-layered persona as novelist, poet and essayist has engineered a sea change in Canadian studies, shaping the face of Canadian literature through its themes of national identity, gender, and environmentalism. Thus her work as a whole, with its constant emphasis on protean transformation, becomes a source text from which much of contemporary Canadian fiction has emerged.

See the full Call for Papers in English and French here.

Deadline for proposals: September 30, 2018.

Guest edited by Nele Sawallisch and Johanna Seibert (Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies; Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

Scholarship on early African American print has developed substantially in the last decade. Major collections like Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein’s Early African American Print Culture (2012) or George Hutchinson and John K. Young’s Publishing Blackness (2013), along with Eric Gardner’s Black Print Unbound (2015), have sparked new conversations between African American and print culture studies. This scholarship has also enriched prevailing views on Black print from America by moving beyond the authorship paradigm, engaging with questions of “originality.” Scholars such as Joanna Brooks, Frances Smith Foster, Joseph Rezek, Leon Jackson, Teresa Goddu, Meredith McGill, and others have studied an impressive array of print media, materials, and genres, ranging from slave narratives, speeches, and broadsides to novels, poems, and engravings. In a landmark special issue for American Periodicals in 2015, Eric Gardner and Joycelyn Moody foregrounded the relevance of serial media and of newspapers and magazines.

Our proposed special issue will contribute to and expand upon this early ground-breaking work by turning toward the yet underexamined issues of Black-produced serial print media as well as Black-run print businesses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the larger circum-Atlantic world. Recent digitization projects and searchable databases such African Newspapers, Series 1 & 2, 1800-1925 and Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876 encourage us to explore a wider range of geographies and languages. Operating at the intersections of periodical and early Black Atlantic studies, the proposed issue will focus on the editorial and print entrepreneurial activities of Blacks in North America, the Caribbean, Cuba, South America, West Africa, and metropolitan Europe until 1900. Consequently, we encourage work that attends to the multi-language enterprise that these activities represent. Contributors may therefore cover Black Atlantic periodicals in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, and Arabic. In this context, we hope to rethink prevalent notions of editorship, as not merely involving peoples, materials, and infrastructures that transcended geographical and political boundaries but also embracing processes of cultural and linguistic translation.

See the full Call for Papers here.

Deadline for proposals: October 31, 2018.

International Conference hosted by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi& Department of English, School of Humanities, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605014 INDIA, AUGUST 30-31, 2018.
The Department of English at Pondicherry University, Puducherry in association with the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI) is hosting a conference on Indian literature in a global context in August 2018 (30-31). The call for papers focusses on Indian literature, but the organizers are also keen on topics related to Canadian literature. Members of the GKS and other international Canadian Studies scholars who would desire to present a plenary on the theme/sub-themes mentioned in the CFP are cordially invited to apply. The organizers will be able to provide travel within India and local hospitality.

Please find the Call for Papers here.

Submission deadline: July 15, 2018.

Moscow, October 11-12, 2018

RACS invites proposals for papers for the 15th International Conference of the Russian Association for Canadian Studies. The Conference is open to scholars in any relevant discipline, and explicitly aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue. The first part of the Conference will be devoted exclusively to economics and business themes including Northern and Arctic issues, the appropriate themes include but are not limited to the following: promoting peace and security in the Arctic, developing natural resources, providing economic prosperity in the North, improving Aboriginal life, protecting the natural environment, learning from Northern cultural heritage, and enlarging international cooperation in the North and Arctic. The second part will allow the contribution from Canadianists in different areas covering the themes of domestic social policies and cultural developments. Any other theme relevant to Canadian Studies (Canadian history, literature, etc.) will be also considered.

The working languages are Russian, English and French. The Conference will take place in the capital of the Russian Federation – the City of Moscow. There is no registration fee for RACS members, its partners or affiliated organizations, national Associations for Canadian Studies and ICCS members. Registration fee for non-members is 10 000 roubles.

We welcome proposals for papers in Russian, English or French, consisting of an abstract (maximum 300 words) and a short biography of the author and appropriate affiliation (maximum 300 words) to be submitted to the RACS-2018 Conference, Organizing Committee, Moscow, Russian Federation by e-mail file in .doc or .rtf format – associationrus@mail.ru by September 5, 2018.

The registration form can be downloaded here and the preliminary program here.

Submission deadline: September 5, 2018.