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CfP: Mid-Atlantic New England Council for Canadian Studies Biennial Conference

Mid-Atlantic New England Council for Canadian Studies Biennial Conference
Portland Regency Hotel and Spa, Portland, ME/USA, October 20-22, 2016

The Mid-Atlantic-New England Council for Canadian Studies (MANECCS) is currently accepting papers from all academic disciplines for the 35th Anniversary Conference to be held at the Portland Regency Hotel and Spa in Portland, Maine between October 20 and 22, 2016.  https://maneccs2016.wordpress.com/.

MANECCS is the premier Canadian Studies organization in the region and is affiliated with the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS). Over the past 35 years MANECCS has brought together scholars from across the academic disciplines and from both public and private sectors in education, business, and government. At these conferences scholars explore complex topics relevant to Canada and its position in the world; past, present, and future. The organizers have an exciting biennial conference planned for their 35th anniversary year.

This year will seek to focus specifically on urban and industrial landscapes. The organizers are especially interested in panels that deal with urbanization, sprawl, decline, reattribution, urban and industrial living and working places, urban recreation and social organization, crime and policing, and any other topic related to Canada’s industrialization and urbanization. *Proposals on other topics related to Canadian history and studies are welcome.*  Papers from established scholars, emerging scholars, and graduate students are encouraged.

Please submit a 250-word paper proposal or a 500-word panel proposal no later than June 1, 2016 to Brian Payne, Associate Professor History, Bridgewater State University (email). Please keep apprised of all developments at: https://maneccs2016.wordpress.com/.

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CfP: „Literature and the Environment“

International Conference, June 8 – 10, 2017, University of Graz (Austria)

The aim of this conference is to underline the specific relevance of literature and of literary studies for environmental and ecological concerns. As literature has addressed environmental issues in the past decades, and eco-literature has evolved into a disctinctive new genre, eco-criticism has emerged as a concomitant branch of literary studies. However, there still seems to be a tendency within literary criticism to regard eco-literature as a form of littérature engagée which is rather less satisfactory from an aesthetic point of view. This view has often led to an almost exclusive focus on contents in critical approaches to committed environmental literature. However, and as suggested by Hubert Zapf’s model of literature as an element of a cultural ecology, it is the specifity of literary texts which determines, to a large extent, their unique cultural function. Thus, literature unfolds its main potential with regard to cultural transformations not only on a thematic or referential level, but also as an effect of „the specific structures and functions of literary textuality as it has evolved in relation to and competition with other forms of textuality in the course of cultural evolution“ (Zapf 2006).

The conference thus aims at exploring the potential of literary texts as cultural manifestations which either operate apart from or undermine pragmatic, one-dimensional and conventionalized discourses of ‚innovation‘ and ‚development‘. The organizers invite papers which discuss individual works or genres with a view to the textual strategies they employ in order to position themselves within the larger system of discourses that define our relationship with the environment.

Papers may want to address the following:

  • Literary renderings of environmental crisis
  • Poetic/dramatic/narrative strategies for mediating environmental issues
  • Human/non-human agency in literary texts
  • Constructing and envisioning animals and animal perspectives
  • Intertextuality, parody etc. as counter-discursive strategies
  • Negotiating the pragmatic and the aesthetic in environmental literature
  • Genre and the question of environmental issues

Length of paper presentations: 20 minutes

Please send your proposal (ca. 250 words) to this email address.

Deadline: 30 September 2016.

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CfP: History, Memory, and Generations: German-Canadian Experiences From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

Much of Canadian immigration historiography has focused on the first generation immigrants, including two important collections on German immigrants in Canada published in 1998 and 2012. While scholars have increasingly looked at the 1.5 and second generations, they have tended to conceptualize them as distinct categories or generations.

This proposed collection of articles, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German immigrants in Canada and their descendants, seeks to explore how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other’s integration and adaption in Canadian society. As one of Canada’s oldest and largest ethnic groups, German-Canadians allow for a variety of longitudinal and multi-generational studies that explore how different generations have negotiated and transmitted diverse individual and group experiences in the form of memories and histories.

Having come from places and times of conflict and war, such as two world wars as well as conflicts in North America, the volume of essays focuses on intergenerational experiences, memories, and histories of war, flight, displacement, and resettlement. This will allow scholars of German-Canadian history to connect their studies in fruitful ways with recent research in memory and refugee studies.

Following in the path of two previous successful collections in German-Canadian History, A Chorus of Different Voices: German-Canadian Identities (eds. Angelika Sauer and Matthias Zimmer) and Beyond the Nation? Immigrants‘ Local Lives in Transnational Cultures (ed. Alexander Freund), this collection seeks to engage the newest scholarship on generation, memory, and migration to illuminate how German-Canadians have lived in Canadian societies over the past 300 years.

More broadly, this collections seeks to document the state of the art in German-Canadian History, and thus proposals for essays on all topics in the field are invited.

The University of Manitoba Press has expressed an interest in reviewing the collection for potential publication in its Studies in Immigration and Culture series.

 

Timeline:

  • 30 April 2016: 500 word abstract and short bio
  • 15 June 2016: invitations to submit essays
  • 30 October 2016: 6,000 word essay (including footnotes, no bibliography or list of references; Chicago style)
  • 31 January 2017: final acceptance/rejection, first round of revisions
  • 31 March 2017: final revisions
  • 30 April 2017: submission of manuscript to university press

For more information or questions on the project, please contact:

Dr. Alexander Freund
Chair in German-Canadian Studies
Professor of History
Co-director, Oral History Centre
The University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
Canada R3B 2E9
Email.

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Conference and Call for Papers: Annual Conference of the British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS)

Conference, April 21 – 23, 2016, London, UK

The British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) will hold its 41st annual conference from 21 to 23 April 2016.  There will also be an opening lecture and reception at Canada House, Trafalgar Square, on the evening of Thursday 21 April and two full days of conference proceedings on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 April at the British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, London.

CANADIAN STUDIES – AN OPEN CALL

To follow up the success of last year’s 40th anniversary conference there will again be an open call for papers on any aspect of Canada, including comparative papers and papers placing Canada in an international context. Conference prices are being kept largely the same as in 2015 and there will again be free student registration (including lunches and refreshments) for students presenting a paper.

Individual papers (20 minutes) and panels of 2, 3 or 4 papers (90 minutes) are invited on any aspect of Canadian Studies including Canadian history, politics, international relations, literature, film, art, society, etc. Proposals for entire panels are especially welcome.

Outline proposals (250-500 words per paper plus brief c.v. or c.vs) should be submitted by 29 January 2016 to the conference secretary, Sue Scott-Martin,  and also the BACS President, Tony McCulloch.

As last year, paper proposals will normally be reviewed by the conference committee and answered within 48 hours in order to expedite conference planning and registration.

Confirmed speakers include:

Ceri Morgan (Keele University)who will give the Eccles Lecture on Friday 22 April on ‘Writing, Talking and Walking Québec’s Eastern Townships’

Pamela Palmater (Ryerson University) on Saturday 23 April –‘Addressing the National Crisis of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada’ 

You will find more information on the Association’s Website.

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Conference & CfP: „Rethinking Comparative Canadian Literature: Indigenous Methodologies and Other Contemporary Approaches“

14th Comparative Canadian Literature Graduate Student Conference

April 1 – 2, 2016

Université de Sherbrooke, Québec/Canada

 The 21st century in Canada is marked by an ongoing discussion about settler/Indigenous relations. Recent events suggest a changing social landscape for Indigenous peoples in Canada, and it is obviously of vital importance to Canada’s future to resolve issues of land claims, environmental protection, self-governance, discrimination, re-appropriation of history, culture, language and identity. Contemporary social and political movements like Idle No More and No More Stolen Sisters (a human rights campaign calling attention to the extensively high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada) as well as the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015) have highlighted the reality that Indigenous peoples in Canada face today. Yet the recent nomination of two Indigenous Ministers in the Liberal cabinet, the inclusion of Indigenous leaders at the global climate change summit in Paris and the growing interest in Indigenous studies all indicate a hopeful turn in the recognition of Indigenous governance in Canada and Quebec as well as in the reconciliation between Canada’s Indigenous peoples and settlers.

Literature represents one possible route to cultural reconciliation. The 14th Graduate Student Conference “Rethinking Comparative Canadian Literature: Indigenous Methodologies and Other Contemporary Approaches” will highlight the potential of indigenous and alternative ways of reading, writing, and thinking to question, but also to enrich established theoretical and analytical frameworks in Comparative Canadian literature.

The organizers will accept papers in English and French dealing with, but not restricted to, the following topics:

  • Indigenous methodologies / decolonization
  • Feminist, postcolonial and other contemporary theories
  • Subaltern voices, counter-narratives, resistance narratives, culture from below, grassroots
  • movements
  • Cultural re-appropriation and literary authority
  • Diverse forms of writing and self-representation, including Indigenous orature
  • Theorizing Comparative Canadian literature
  • Mainstream (English-Canadian and Québécois literatures) and minority literatures (immigrant
  • and Indigenous literatures)
  • Language questions (English, French, foreign and Indigenous languages)
  • Translation studies

The conference will take place from April 1-2, 2016 on the main campus at Université de Sherbrooke and is designed as an open space of gathering for young scholars interested in Comparative Canadian Literature and Translation Studies. As the University’s Comparative Canadian Literature program is unique in the world, we invite graduate students (both MA and PhD) from different disciplines (Comparative literature, English/Canadian/French/Québécois literatures, Translation studies, Indigenous studies, Cultural studies, Film studies, History etc.) to submit paper and poster proposals. Submissions from advanced undergraduate students will be taken into consideration if the proposed abstracts indicate an outstanding and original contribution.

Please submit your abstract of no more than 250 words and a short biographical note (150 words) to this e-mail address. Be sure to include your name, affiliation and degree, e-mail address as well as the title of your presentation and upload the documents as an attachment (PDF format).

Submission deadline: January 31st, 2016.