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Call for Articles: Dominions of History

Conventional political histories tell us that between 1867 and 1947 Canada, Australia, Aoteroa/New Zealand, Eire/Ireland, Newfoundland and India became “dominions,” described in 1926 as “autonomous communities within the British Empire.” Until the 1980s the language of Dominion was threaded through multiple states and institutions:  In Canada, people celebrated and protested Dominion Day, reported to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, and deposited their pay cheques at the Toronto Dominion Bank. The Dominion Archivist was tasked with preserving the record of the national history. Canada was not alone. Throughout Britain’s imperial realm, the language of Dominion evoked and legitimated ideas of Empire, property, and territorial ambition and control.

As we approach the 150th Anniversary of Confederation in Canada, Histoire Sociale / Social History invites historians working in diverse national and geographic fields to re-evaluate the multiple histories and meanings of dominion across the globe.  Essays might engage histories of colonialism and/or imperialism, state-formation, Indigenous peoples, political representation, migration, the gendering of states, racialization, popular politics, and multiple kinds of property from a social history perspective.  Essays can engage places that received the formal title of Dominion status and the many parts of the British Empire that did not. The editors are open to approaches that focus on specific locations in the imperial world and to transnational and comparative approaches.

The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2016.

Those interested are invited to contact the journal in advance.  Authors are invited to visit the journal’s website for presentation guidelines and send their submissions in electronic format—an e-mail attachment in Word is preferred—the following address:

Histoire Sociale / Social History
Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa
55, av. Laurier Ave. E. DMS 9127

Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5
Email: hssh@uottawa.ca
Website.

Guest Editors: Adele Perry, University of Manitoba and Jarett Henderson, Mount Royal University

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CfP: From Reformation to Globalization in Canada, Germany, and the World

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.

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CfP for Anthology: „In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture“

Anthology planned for publication in Lang’s Canadiana book series

Ed. Stefan L. Brandt

Deadline for complete essays: December 31, 2016

In Cultural Studies, the concept of liminality has been used in various ways. Numerous scholars have dealt with the stage ‚betwixt and between,‘ as Victor Turner most famously described it. This anthology aims at re-mapping the field, focusing on liminality and the liminal within Canada.

Originally developed by cultural anthropologist Arnold van Gennep in his seminal study from 1909, and rediscovered by Victor Turner in the 1960s, the metaphor of ‚liminality‘ has become a keyword in contemporary cultural criticism to refer to processes of identity negotiation connected to experiences of transition. It has been used in connection with terms such as ‚border,‘ ‚frontier,‘ and ‚threshold,‘ and in opposition to the equally metaphorical concept of ‚marginality.‘ While marginality connotes ‚periphery,‘ and thus mainly focuses on exclusion from and by dominant discourses, liminality is concerned with the space of the borderline itself, with feelings of ambiguity and ambivalence.

Liminality can be experienced as challenging, uncomfortable, threatening, and disruptive, but also as subversive and powerful, as a stage facilitating creativity and change. In the context of Canadian Studies, liminality has been employed to discuss geographical frontiers such as the Niagara Falls, the St. Laurence River, the Rocky Mountains, the Canadian Prairies, British Columbia, Quebec, and the Arctic, as well as symbolic frontiers including migration, French-English relations, encounters between First Nations and settlers, and Northrop Frye’s ‚garrison mentality.‘ Liminality has also been examined as an aesthetic concept in its relation to the sublime and the uncanny.

As a theoretical concept, liminality can be of help for an analysis of the construcedness of Canada’s collective identity/identities as well as of individual processes of identification and change. These observations lead us to the following questions: How has the Canadian cultural imaginary fashioned itself with regard to the ‚boundariness‚ of its social and identificatory practices? Which role do symbolic ‚frontiers‘ play in Canadian discourses of self-representation (with respect to inner-Canadian border areas, but also in comparison to the U.S. American frontier)? How do ethnic, sexual, and other minorities position themselves in this nexus of liminal identities?

This anthology aims at bringing together scholars who wish to discuss Canadian liminal spaces and places, that is, in particular, fragmented and contradictory social, cultural, and political practices, real and imagines borders, contact zones, thresholds, and transitions in Anglo-Canadian literature and culture. Possible topics for essays may include, but are – by for – not limited to, the following:

  • geographical and imagined borders
  • spatial and temporal liminalities
  • Canadian ‚frontiers‘
  • the relationship between Anglophone and Francophone Canada
  • the Canadian North
  • the aesthetics and  poetics of liminality
  • the liminal and the subliminal
  • cultural encounters and First Nations
  • queer cultural spaces
  • transgender and intersex identities
  • hybridity, multiculturalism, and transnationalism
  • the figure of the trickster
  • aspects of intersectionality, transgression, and normativity
  • old age as a liminal stage

Complete essays of no more than 5.000 words, together with the name, institutional affiliation and a bio blurb (max. 150 words) should be sent to this email address. The closing date for submissions is Saturday, December 31, 2016.

Should you have further questions, please contact the editor of the volume, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan L. Brandt.

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Nachwuchsforum: Nachfolge des Leitungsteams gesucht!

logo_nachwuchs_gksDas Nachwuchsforum der Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien e.V. sucht junge, engagierte Kanadist_innen, die sich aktiv im Leitungsteam einbringen und die Förderung von Nachwuchswissenschaftler_innen im Rahmen einer interdisziplinären Kanadistik unterstützen möchten.

Die Leitung des Nachwuchsforums setzt sich aus zwei Teams zusammen, die jeweils versetzt für zwei Jahre amtieren. Turnusgemäß wird das Team Wien auf der nächsten Jahrestagung der GKS, die vom 17. – 19. Februar 2017 in Grainau stattfinden wird, sein Amt abgeben.

Auf der Jahrestagung wird traditionell auch das zukünftige Team vorgestellt, das dann gemeinsam mit dem Team Konstanz/Regensburg die Leitung des Nachwuchsforums übernehmen wird. Das Team Konstanz/Regensburg setzt sich aus Alena Schmidt-Weihrich, Orla Flock, Ingrid Kaplitz, Eva Mendez, Jana Nürnberger, Bianka Gengler, Bettina Mack und Rene Reichert zusammen. Ausführlichere Informationen zum Nachwuchsforum und zu den Leitungsteams können der Webseite www.nachwuchsforum.net entnommen werden.

Das Leitungsteam ist für die Organisation des jährlichen Nachwuchspanels auf der GKS-Jahrestagung sowie für die Ausrichtung einer Graduiertentagung zuständig. In das Aufgabengebiet fällt außerdem die Vernetzung im deutschsprachigen Raum mit anderen Partnerorganisationen, akademischen Einrichtungen, Kanadazentren und den Vertretungen der Regierungen von Kanada und Québec. Hierzu gehören u.a. die Pflege und Aktualisierung der Webseite, das Erstellen eines vierteljährlichen Newsletters mit Informationen zu Konferenzen, Stipendien, Jobangeboten und weiteren Neuigkeiten im Bereich der Kanada-Studien sowie die Repräsentanz des Nachwuchsforums auf Social Media Plattformen (Facebook und Twitter). Die Arbeit im Nachwuchsforum verschafft einen aktiven Einblick in die Organisation von wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen, die Drittmittelbeschaffung, den Umgang mit neuen Medien und das Vernetzen der im deutschsprachigen Raum angesiedelten Kanadistik. Besonders im Hinblick auf die Ausrichtung und Finanzierung der jährlichen Graduiertentagung hat sich die institutionelle Anbindung des Teams an eine akademische Einrichtung bewährt.

Bewerber_innen sollten über gute Kenntnisse in mindestens einer der beiden offiziellen Amtssprachen Kanadas verfügen; es ist von Vorteil, wenn im Team sowohl die englische als auch die französische Sprache repräsentiert werden. Bewerbungen von interdisziplinär besetzten Teams, die ein möglichst breites Spektrum der Sektionen der GKS vertreten, sind besonders willkommen; Einzelpersonen, die das Nachwuchsforum ausdrücklich zu einer Bewerbung ermutigt, werden jedoch gleichermaßen berücksichtigt.

Das Team Konstanz/Regensburg freut sich über zahlreiche Einsendungen. Die Bewerbungen (Motivationsschreiben von max. 2 Seiten, Lebenslauf) sind bis spätestens zum 15. Dezember 2016 an diese E-Mail-Adresse zu richten. Alle Bewerber_innen werden bis Ende Dezember 2016 über die Entscheidung informiert.

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CfP: The Art of Resistance and Resurgence

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.