Kategorie: Call for Papers

CAWLS 4th Annual Conference, May 31 – June 2, 2017, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON/Canada

As part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

The conference organizing committee invites submissions for participation in the 4th annual conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS). The committee welcomes proposals for single papers, thematic streams, multiple paper panels, roundtables, and workshops. The participation of researchers in union and community settings is encouraged.

The Congress theme, “From Far and Wide: The Next 150” seeks to engage our collective interest reflecting on the past 150 years in Canada as we look to the next 150. Building on this theme, CAWLS 2017 aims to promote discussions of the past, present, and future of work, labour, and labour studies, both within and beyond Canada. This raises a wide range of interdisciplinary themes, including the dynamics and implications of diversity and inclusion/exclusion, the role of institutions, the politics of labour, and strategies for improving and transforming work.

The organizers invite proposals that tackle any of the following questions:

• Who has counted as a ‘worker’ historically, and who counts now? How have racialization, gender, sexuality, class, age, and ability shaped the politics of labour in Canada, and what are their implications for the future of the labour movement?
• Has our conception of work changed much over the past 150 years? How does a focus on social reproduction and care work change how we understand both the past and the future of work?
• A key ideological, political, and cultural reference point is the so-called ‘Golden Age of Capitalism’ from 1945 to 1975 or so. How ‘golden’ was it? And what can be learned from this critical period?
• Since 1867 working-class movements within Canada have transformed and been transformed by macro-level events. What does this long memory teach us about the prospects for working-class politics and the future role and shape of trade unions in Canada?
• Has the normalization of precarity as a feature of the labour market forced a sufficient re-thinking of the labour market institutions, working-class politics or labour organizing that have developed over the last 150 years? What can we learn from other struggles around the world?
• How does the distribution of power between the federal and provincial government affect the construction a coherent labour policy in the 21st century?
• How does intersectional analysis inform the study of work and of labour movements? How is it informing the contemporary labour movement in ways that build more inclusive working-class communities, organizations, and struggles?
• What are the dynamics of continuity and change in terms of immigration, migration, and work?
• How do workers and trade unions engage with environmental movements and issues? What are the links to the historic struggle for occupational and community health and safety protection and regulation? What are the future prospects for labour-environmental justice alliances? What are the implications of de-growth politics for labour?
• What is the relationship between workers, unions, and Indigenous communities and how might connections be strengthened?
• How has labour internationalism changed over time, and what kinds of challenges and strategies will shape the future of labour internationalism?

Participants are not required to limit themselves to the above list. The organizers welcome proposals on all topics that highlight the past, present, and future of work and labour studies within Canada and beyond. Our goal is to create a final conference programme reflective of the broadest range of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary approaches.

New Voices in Work and Labour Studies: New scholars (graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty/researchers in the first five years of their appointment) are encouraged to indicate their status on their proposal in order to be considered for the New Voices in Work and Labour Studies Prize.

Submission requirements: Proposals should include a 250-word abstract for each panel/paper and a short bio for each presenter. Please email proposals to the conference organizing committee c/o Dr. Bryan Evans, Conference Chair, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University. Please submit your proposal to cawls2017@gmail.com.

To facilitate new conversations, the organizers encourage people interested in organizing panels, streams, roundtables and workshops to submit a CFP for inclusion in the CAWLS newsletter by December 1, 2016.

All paper proposals are due by January 31, 2017.

PLEASE NOTE: Accepted presenters must be CAWLS members in good standing by April 30, 2017.

For information on Conference fees and Conference support, please check the CAWLS website.

Conference, 5 – 7 October 2017, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada

The year 2017 will bring celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s supposed posting of his 95 Theses as a signal event of the Protestant Reformation, as well as celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Dominion of Canada. This dual anniversary will be celebrated with an exhibition of Reformation library treasures and an academic conference at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, jointly organized with the University of Ottawa and the University of Erfurt, and with support from the National Library and Archives of Canada, the Gotha Research Library, and the Embassy of Germany in Canada.

The exhibition “The Reformation – Translation and Transmission: Library Treasures from Germany and Canada” will provide a unique illustration of the worldwide impact of the Reformation by bringing together original editions and translations of Martin Luther’s works and other key Reformation texts from the Gotha Research Library, Saint Paul University and the National Library and Archives of Canada.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the academic symposium “From Reformation to Globalization in Canada, Germany, and the World” will explore the myriad and seminal forms of impact that the Reformation has had and continues to have on many aspects of religion, politics, society and culture in Canada, Germany, and in the wider world. Academic experts from many disciplines and community activists will explore these connections in panels and roundtables. The organizers also envision a graduate student workshop or seminar. The themes addressed at the conference could include but are not limited to the following:

• Spreading the word: the Reformation and the impact of new media on society from print to the internet
• The impact of the Reformation on philosophy and ideas, on worldviews (especially Western
• Modernity and secularization), on politics, on economics, on history, …
• Reformation and Migration
• Reformation and Justification: The Project “Not for Sale”, Resistance to Social and Ecological
• Injustice
• Religious Tolerance and Diversity in the past (Treaty of Westphalia, Augsburg) and current times
• Religion and Violence
• Reformation and Literature and the Arts
• Reformation and Language (Bible translations and the standardization of language)
• Dialogue: between Protestants and Catholics, inter-religious dialogue, religious-secular dialogue

The organizing committee invites proposals for papers (maximum 20 minutes) on these and other topics related to the conference theme, in English or French, as well as for academic posters. Graduate student participation is specifically encouraged. Proposals of not more than 300 words and a CV should be sent by email to Joerg Esleben by the submission deadline of 1 December 2016.

The organizing committee:
Catherine Clifford, Saint Paul University.
Joerg Esleben, University of Ottawa.
Louis Perron, Saint Paul University.
Myriam Wijlens, University of Erfurt.

38th American Indian Workshop, July 4 – 6, 2017, at Goldsmiths, University of London

Proposals are invited for the 38th American Indian Workshop, to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London from July 4 – 6, 2017. Papers are welcome from all fields and on any topic, though priority will be given to those that speak of the conference’s key theme.

This year’s conference will focus on the art of resistance and resurgence in the broadest terms. This includes manifestations of activism, political insurgency, conservation work, language and cultural revitalization, cultural resurgence and historical and anthropological analysis alongside more literal literary and visual representations and occasions of resistance. Resistance, similarly, may be interpreted broadly (to settler colonialism, extra-national imposition, and so on) or more specifically (to pipelines, cultural appropriation, and more).

A number of analyses focusing on the cultural and political concerns of Native American artists have been offered in recent times. Accordingly, many scholars working in the field of Native American Literary Studies have bevome interested int he connection between aesthetics and activism. The theme of the 38th AIW has been chosen in recognition of this fact, and the increased amount of attention that is being paid to the intersection between indigenous arts and contemporary tribal contexts. Papers will exmaine the complexity of the relationship between various artistic mediums and the day-to-day concerns of the Native artist; the relationship between the arts and community; and the aesthetics of resistance and resurgence. The organizers hope that speakers will examine those points of connection, continue the debate concerning the links between indigenous art and cultures, and suggest that resistance and resurgence are discernible within a broad range of work by indigenous writers, directors, musicians and artists.

Topics to consider may include:

• Art and acticism
• The art of Idle No More
• Visual and literary responses to NoDAPL (No Dakota Access Pipelines)
• Language revitalization
• Cultural conservation programmes
• Visual sovereignty
• Digital arts
• Mixed media responses to mineral extraction
• Literature and the art of rhetorical sovereignty
• Indigenous performance art
• Honoring the treaties
• Gameplay and tribal arts and languages
• Exhibitiing indigenous art
• Anticolonial/Decolonial art practices
• Cultural engagement work
• Visual cultures of protest
• Indigenising new media
• Graphic novels

The organizers may be in a position to exhibit a small number of artworks and therefore invite submissions from visual artists and filmmakers as well as writers and scholars.

Please send proposals of no more than 400 words + brief CV to Padraig Kirwan and David Stirrup by December 15, 2016. Speakers will be notified by January 15, 2017.

Chapter of the Americas Conference, The International Auto/Biography Association, Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto, ON (Canada), May 15 – 17, 2017

The organizing committee invites proposal for the third biennial meeting of IABA Americas that will be held at the Centre for Feminist Research in Toronto with support form the US Fulbright Program. The conference will explore the multiple lines that gendered lives in the Americas cross, both physical boundaries and intangible crossings. The conference is dedicated to the celebration of the scholarship of Marlene Kadar, a Canadian theorist and critic whose contributions have dramatically changed the field by pushing the conceptual boundaries of what constitutes life writing and expanding its interdisciplinary methods of study.

The themes suggested below relate to and amplify Kadar’s research interests and are clustered around issues of gender and genre with special attention given to trauma and illness studies, archival methodologies, and transnational themes in the Americas. Potential subjects include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Gender in migration, dislocation, displacement, transit
• Gender constructions on and across borders
• Transnational and decolonial practices of gender and embodiment
• Intersectional interrogations of gender and sexuality with race, class, body size, health and ability
• Fluidity of genders, sexualities, becoming bodies
• Bodies in extremis, bodies in pain, medicated bodies, permeable bodies
• Creativity and illness; living with life-threatening illness; living with death/dying
• End-of-life interview and (auto)pathographic genres
• Intimacies of health care biopower
• „Traumatics“ (comics of medical trauma, violence, abuse, and war)
• Plasticity of life writing
• Hybrid forms and practices
• Multimedial and multimodal life writing
• Emerging genres (Instagram, selfie, I-doc, digital diary, etc.)
• Secret as a genre, unpublished secrets
• Pracitces of testimony in multiple modes (oral, digital, photographic, film, documentary, writing)
• Intersections of life writing and the life sciences
• Gendering and racializing the archives
• Sensorial and affective encounters in the archives
• Empathy, sympathy, and compassion
• Interdisciplinarity of archival work
• Methodological practices related to gender and genre; and
• Pedagogical intersections of gender and genre

Please send 300-word abstracts with brief biographical statements as email attachments to the convenors: Eva C. Karpinski, York University and Ricia Anne Chansky, University of Poerto Rico at Mayagüez by October 31, 2016. Decisions will be made by January 15, 2017. Please be aware that space is limited. Inquiries are welcome.

Website of the International Auto/Biography Association – Chapter of the Americas.