Kategorie: Call for Papers

Editors: Svetlana Seibel and Kati Dlaske

Indigenous Popular Culture is currently one of the fastest-growing fields of contemporary cultural production in the United States and Canada, but also other regions across the globe. Indigenous artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and entrepreneurs of all walks of life proliferate increasingly on the contemporary popular cultural landscape in all its various incarnations, from popular fiction to animation to the fashion world. Diverse Indigenous practitioners of the popular throughout the world not only intervene powerfully into the landscape of popular culture and representation—a cultural field which is notorious for its various appropriations and misrepresentations of Indigenous people and cultures—but also draw attention to the pressing social and political challenges which Indigenous communities are facing today. With its ever expanding scope, Indigenous popular culture harnesses the vibrant and mutable energies of popular culture, fan culture, and geek culture in order to not only indigenize the cultural field of the popular, but also to advance Indigenous cultural archives in a multiplicity of forms. Thus, Indigenous popular culture is not only a field of a dynamic creative expression, but often also in one way or another stands in dialogue with contemporary Indigenous activist groups and causes working towards the goal of decolonization and Indigenous resurgence.

The proposed volume seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners of Indigenous popular culture in order to illustrate the cultural vibrancy, complexity, and importance of this emerging field. We therefore invite contributions from academics as well as artists, entrepreneurs, event organizers, cos players etc. Contributions may focus on any aspect of Indigenous popular culture in any of the geographic areas throughout the globe.

See the full CfP here.

Deadline for Proposals: March 1, 2018.

University of Manitoba – University of Trier – University of Greifswald, Biennial Partnership Conference, September 20-21, 2018, University of Manitoba, Canada

We live in one of the great ages of memory, a time in which forces have converged to push memory to the forefront of our moral, political, scientific, and aesthetic lives. Some have even referred to the current moment as being characterized by a “memory boom.” The standard view of this boom is that it has come about owing to a variety of factors, including, a decline in confidence in “modernist” narratives of progress over the course of the twentieth century, the rise of consumer culture, which has turned nostalgia into a commodity, and multiculturalism and individualism, which have in related ways fragmented our collective sense of self, forcing nation-states to turn to the real or imagined past to buttress their legitimacy. Memory has been further bolstered by the Holocaust and other such horrors, which have called into question the integrity of our moral imaginations and ushered in what has been called “a culture of trauma and regret.” We find this culture at work in public institutions such as memorials and museums, as well as in the proliferation of media representations of the personal past. It is also evident in such socially and politically transformative agencies and processes as truth commissions and public inquiries.

Proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary conference on the subject of memory. The conference, to be held at the University of Manitoba, is in partnership with the Trier University. The scope of the conference is broad, and the theme is intended to encompass scholarship on all forms of memory (personal, collective, institutional, cognitive, etc.). Of particular interest is work pertaining to memory as it is understood, and circulates (is celebrated, contested, etc.), in Canadian and German academic and cultural contexts. Presentations are welcome to address works and issues from different fields, media, and conceptual perspectives.

See the full CfP here.

Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2018.

Sunday, 28 October 2018, Ottawa, Canada

Organized by the Department of English at Ryerson University, the Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program at the University of Ottawa, the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, and Library and Archives Canada

Although the Holocaust has long engaged writers in Canada – those with and without direct links to the historic event – their particular exploration of the subject has received little critical or scholarly attention. There now exists a significant body of Canadian Holocaust Literature that warrants such attention. We invite proposals for the first-ever conference devoted to Canadian Holocaust Literature. The aim of this landmark conference is twofold: to identify a corpus of work and to generate scholarly interest in the field. Proposals that focus on literary works originally written in Yiddish, Hebrew, English, or French are welcome. For the purposes of this conference, literary works include poetry, short fiction, novels, life writing, graphic narrative, and creative non-fiction. The theme of this inaugural conference is deliberately broad, and critical approaches may vary widely.

See the full CfP here.

Deadline for Proposals: June 15, 2018.

Rising Up: A Graduate Students Conference, March 9th- 10th, 2018, University of Manitoba

Rising Up: A Graduate Students Conference on Indigenous Knowledge and Research in Indigenous Studies is an international gathering held annually. Rising Up attracts scholars in all forms of Indigenous research! The University of Manitoba Native Studies Graduate Students Association (NSGSA) is hosting the third annual two-day conference for all graduate students to lead the discussion across all disciplines and allow graduates to present their knowledge and research. Due to the interdisciplinary and international character, the Review Committee welcomes a comprehensive range of topics and approaches.

This year the Conference will take place between March 9th and 10th in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Rising Up 2018 will focus on Indigenous Knowledge and Indigenous Research.

Extended deadline for abstract submissions: Jan. 28, 2018.

Nouvelles Vues, numéro 22 (automne 2018) – « Femmes et cinéma québécois II : 35 ans plus tard » 

Sous la direction de Lori Saint-Martin (professeure, CRILCQ à l’UQAM) et Julie Ravary-Pilon (stagiaire postdoctorale, CRILCQ à l’UQAM) 

En 1983, était publié aux éditions du Boréal l’ouvrage Femmes et cinéma québécois dirigé par Louise Carrière. Il combinait deux approches féministes du cinéma : une étude de la place des femmes dans la création cinématographique et une analyse la représentation des figures féminines à l’écran. Il s’agissait de présenter, selon Louise Carrière, « côté pile et côté face de la même réalité : femmes imaginées, fantasmées et souvent parodiées par les cinéastes québécois, et femmes de cinéma exprimant leur réalité et celle des autres femmes ». Les collaboratrices de cet ouvrage proposaient des études, selon ces deux angles, du corpus cinématographique québécois des années 1940 à 1983 : des représentations des figures féminines dans les films canadiens-français adaptés des romans de la terre (Christiane Daviault-Tremblay) à l’histoire des réalisatrices à l’Office national du film (Danielle Blais), en passant par l’analyse des images récentes des femmes dans les films à succès (Josée Boileau). Carrière souhaitait que cet « ouvrage projette un éclairage nouveau pour une histoire du cinéma québécois à reconstruire.» Or, depuis, aucune étude collective abordant à la fois la place des femmes dans la création et les représentations de figures féminines du cinéma québécois n’a vu le jour. Ce numéro de Nouvelles Vues vise à combler cette lacune. En reprenant la double démarche du livre de Carrière, il cherchera à rendre compte de la distance parcourue depuis 1983, au fil des grands changements sociaux et culturels générés entre autres par la réflexion et la mobilisation féministes.

Tant le monde du cinéma que la réflexion sur les femmes et les approches théoriques ont changé radicalement depuis le début des années 1980. De nouvelles oeuvres ont vu le jour, de nouvelles créatrices ont émergé pendant que d’autres poursuivaient leur carrière, des mobilisations pour la parité et l’équité en cinéma ont émergé. La définition et la portée du mot « femme » ont été remises en question et élargies par la théorie queer et le mouvement trans, notamment. Enfin, les avancées théoriques – approches féministes, intersectionnelles, queer, sociologiques, liées aux cultural studies, etc. – permettent aujourd’hui de nouvelles analyses.

Dans le cadre du numéro thématique Femmes et cinéma québécois II : 35 ans plus tard, nous sollicitons des écrits portant sur toute question liée à la thématique des femmes dans le cinéma québécois depuis 1983, devant ou derrière la caméra.

Deadline for proposals: Jan. 31, 2018.