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Job Offer: Assistant Professor for Indigenous Studies

Assistant Professor for Indigenous Studies, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON/Canada

The Department of Sociology at Ryerson University in the city of Toronto on the territory of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. The area of specialization is Indigenous studies, with a focus on Turtle Island/North America reflected in a program of research that demonstrates a strong commitment to Indigenous knowledges and methodologies, a record of collaboration with Indigenous communities and organizations, and active engagement with anti-colonial struggles in North America. The successful candidate will be able to apply Indigenous perspectives to teaching in one of the following areas: introductory sociology, popular culture, or gender and sexuality, in order to teach Indigenous content courses as well as Sociology Program and Liberal Studies courses at the undergraduate level.

The position will commence July 1, 2017 and is subject to final budgetary approval.

The successful candidate must hold a Ph.D. or be close to the completion of a Ph.D. in Sociology or in a related discipline and will provide evidence of a strong research record or an emerging scholarly profile, demonstrate a high standard of teaching, in addition to a capacity for collegial service. Candidates must have a demonstrated commitment to and meaningful experience with the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion and will be expected to demonstrate their ability to work with a diverse student population. The Sociology Department, consisting of 22 full-time faculty members, has a solid and growing reputation for high-quality teaching and excellent, innovative, and socially-relevant research. The Department is strongly committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, social activism, and community-engaged teaching, learning, and research. Our undergraduate degree program offers a curriculum that highlights the study and practical application of research methods, classical and contemporary social theory, and themes of diversity, inequality and social justice, popular culture, media, and contemporary urban experience.

 

Located in the heart of Toronto, the largest and one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Canada, Ryerson University is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. The University is known for its innovative programs, built on the integration of theoretical and practically oriented learning. Both our undergraduate and graduate programs are distinguished by a professionally focused curriculum and strong emphasis on excellence in teaching, research and creative activities.

Applications should include a letter of introduction, curriculum vitae, two recent writing samples, institutionally-generated results of teaching evaluations, and three letters of reference. Applicants are asked to indicate in their application if they are a citizen or permanent resident of Canada. Please apply for this job online at www.ryerson.ca/jobs. For general inquiries, please contact Mr. Yu by email  or by phone at 416 979 5000 x. 2282. Confidential inquiries or questions of an academic nature may be directed to Dr. Alan Sears, Interim Chair of the Department of Sociology. The deadline for submission of applications is December 2, 2016.

This position falls under the jurisdiction of the Ryerson Faculty Association (RFA). The RFA collective agreement can be viewed on the RFA collective agreement page. A summary of RFA benefits can be found on the RFA benefits page. The RFA’s website can be found at: www.rfanet.ca.

Aboriginal candidates who would like to learn more about working at Ryerson University are welcome to contact Ms. Tracey King, Aboriginal HR Consultant, Aboriginal Recruitment and Retention Initiatives.

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CHESS Summer School 2017: „Gender and Indigenous Landscapes“

Host Institution: York University, Toronto, Ontario

The Network in Canadian History and Environment is pleased to invite applications for the 2017 Canadian History and Environment Summer School (CHESS) in Toronto, Ontario. CHESS is an annual Canadian environmental history event that brings together graduate students, faculty, and other researchers in the fields of environmental history and historical geography for two and a half days of field trips, workshops, public lectures, and more. It is an excellent opportunity to concentrate on a single theme in environmental history while engaging with other scholars.

For Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples in southern Ontario, land is pedagogy. Nishnaabeg scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson reminds us that “by far the largest attack on Indigenous Knowledge systems right now is land dispossession.” The Mother Earth Water Walkers, circling the Great Lakes to protect places and peoples, demonstrate the importance to Indigenous communities of natural resources in their personal, physical sacrifice to protest resource exploitation. The women who started Idle No More, and Chief Theresa Spence, represent the generations of Indigenous women who have been fighting for generations for lands, peoples, and political rights. Still, so many voices have gone missing and have been murdered, and the recently struck national inquiry has finally brought their tragedy to national attention.

CHESS 2017 participants will be asked to listen to and think about the messages from Indigenous people about gender and landscapes in southern Ontario. What can we learn about the ways gender and land shape Indigenous pasts and present in the region? Participants will visit Crawford Lake and encounter a reconstructed fifteenth-century Iroquoian village to help them imagine life before the devastations brought by European colonizers. Participants will then visit contemporary Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe reserves to learn from local landscapes that embody the historical memories of Indigenous lives and colonization. CHESS 2017 will take place from May 31 – June 2, following the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association

Participant spaces are limited. To apply to attend, please complete this online form with a brief letter of introduction explaining why you are interested in attending CHESS 2017 and how your research aligns with this year’s theme, and a one-page C.V. detailing your research interests and experience. Graduate students are encouraged to apply and funding is being sought for their support.

More information on CHESS and the Network in Canadian History and Environment can be found on their website.

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Job Offer: Associate/Full Professor for Indigenous Studies

Associate/Full Professor
Indigenous Studies
Faculty of Arts and Science, Centre for Indigenous Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON/Canada

The Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a tenured appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The incumbent will be cross-appointed in the Centre for Indigenous Studies (49%) and a relevant cognate discipline (51%) depending on his/her area of expertise. The successful applicant will also be eligible to be appointed as the Director of the Centre for Indigenous Studies. The expected start date is July 1, 2017. Appointment as the Director of the Centre will be for a five-year term, renewable folloing a favourable review.

The successful candidate is expected to have an active program of research, with particular attention to Indigenous knowledges, a deep understanding of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous pedagogies in diverse contexts, a commitment to the vision of Indigenous Studies with its focus on languages and Indigenous knowledges, and a strong record in ethical engagement and collaboration with Indigenous communities, organizations, and institutions. The successful candidate will be involved in research using Indigenous and community-based methodologies. S/he will have a Ph.D. in a relevant academic discipline and a scholarly record in a discipline in the area of Indignous Studies or a discipline related to the area of Indigenous Studies, to permit cross-appointment in a related academic unit. Evidence of excellence in research will be demonstrated by publication in leading journals and/or presses in the field, a significant contribution to the ltierature, presentations at significant conferences, a strong record in Indigenous research methodologies and ethical engagement and collaboration with Indigenous communities, organizations, and institutions, and strong endorsements by referees. Evidence of excellence in taching will be demonstrated through teaching accomplishments including the mentoring and research supervision of undergraduates and graduate students, letters of reference, and the teaching statement submitted as part of the application. Administrative experience is highly desirable.

The Centre for Indigenous Studies houses an interdisciplinary undergraduate program within the Faculty of Arts and Science and a research centre serving the University of Toronto and the broader community. The undergraduate program is dedicated to the scholarly study and research of the priorities and aspirations of Indigenous peoples in Canada and throughout the world. An important goal of the program is to provide an opportunity for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students to learn and think about Indigenous knowledges in creative, transformative and critical ways. The undergraduate program offers courses that engender a rigorous and respectful understanding of Indigenous peoples’ languages, knowledges, cultures, histories, politics, arts, intellectual traditions, and research methodologies. A key feature of the program is its respect and promotion of Indigenous knowledges, as evidenced by the commitment to Indigenous language instruction and courses devoted to the topic of Indigenous knowledge itself. The Centre also houses research programs. There is currently a focus on Indigenous language sustainability. The Centre is also a partner on a SSHRC grant on Great Lakes Indigenous heritage for the 21st century. The Centre houses SAGE (Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Education), and works closely with the Centre for Community Partnerships in developing service learning courses with Indigenous organizations in the Toronto area. The Centre also has a strong relationship with First Nations House, a student support service that is part of Student Life. The Director of the Centre has responsibility for sustaining and building the program, working closely with other relevant units across the University of Toronto. This is a particularly active time for the Centre, given the recent release of the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation and the University’s proactive response.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

All qualified applicants are invited to apply online by clicking the link below. Applications must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a statement outlining current and future research interests, a statement on teaching philosophy and experience and copies of two relevant publications. Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. We recommend combining attached documents into one or two files in PDF/MS Word files.

Applicants should arrange to have four letters of reference, including one that speaks to community engagement, sent directly by email (on letterhead, signed and scanned) to Julia Chou by the review date of October 31, 2016.

The committee will begin to consider applications as of October 31, 2016 and applications will be accepted until the position is filled. If you have any questions regarding this position please contact Julia Chou.

For more information on the Centre please visit the Indigenous Centre’s Website.

The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see http://uoft.me/UP.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

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CfP: Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas: A Symposium in Honour of Marlene Kadar

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.

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CfP: Comparing Canada(s) – Comparer le(s) Canada(s)

Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (Canada), March 3 – 4, 2017

From Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes (1945) to La revue acadienne’s ironic suggestions of Chiac as a tool to „prendre ces deux solitudes-là pis en faire une seule solitude“ („Le Chiac est la solution“), the image of Canada as a country of two peoples or communities – English and French (or, more specifically, English and Québécois) – has become a commonplace. Recent scholarship has questioned the applicability of this image, as „the old epics of identity“ (Simon 2006, 8) are increasingly unable to represent the current multicultural and polyglot reality of Montreal and Toronto, historically the Francophone and Anglophone literary centres of Canada. In fact, Catherine Leclerc (2010) has argued, the two languages interact, „cohabit“ much of contemporary Canadian literature and occasionally blend to the extent that the very notion of a „primary“ language for a given text begins to blur. As the model of „Two [geographically specific] Solitudes“ begins to crumble, an equally dreary tension emerges, this time between the image of Canada as an officially bilingual-bicultural state and the more progessive ideal of Canada as a „varied, rich cultural mosaic“ („Canada’s Enthnocultural Portrait: The Changing Mosaic“). One could read this as a step towards greater diversity, and away from nationalism tout court, or simply as a reiteration of the Canadian n ational narrative, now a fortress rendered even more impenetrable by virute of its seemingly open gates and attractive welcome mat.

E.D. Blodgett’s article „Canadian Literature Is Comparative Literature“ (1988) notes that while Canada is home to a diverse range of literature – English and French, but also other, less grequently studied settler literatures (German, Icelandic, Ukranian, Gaelic et al.), as well as a wide range of Indigenous literatures – there are few scholars who „compare the Canadian literatures,“ and that most of these focus on only one point of comparison, namely „the relationship between the anglophone and francophone literatures of Canada, Comparative Canadian Literautre in the official sense“ (905). In light of the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, the organizing committee invites contributions exploring Canada – or Canadas – in all the term’s varied meanings.

A few questions to consider:

  • How might we bridge the gap between the „Two Solitudes“ of Canadian literature? In what ways does translation between the two official languages, as well as other languages, contribute (or not) to bridging this gap and other cultural and linguistic gaps in Canada?
  • How can the language of multiculturalism/interculturalism/hybridity inform Canadian scholarship? What critiques or complications of this frame emerge in Canadian contexts?
  • How do diasporic or minority literatures fit into the broader field of „Canadian literature“? How does the presence of these other traditions (Indigenous, Black, queer, immigrant, et al.) complicate our understanding of „Canada“ and „Canadian literature“?
  • How do settler and immigrant literatures in Canada relate to their parent literary traditions (e.g. Chinese Canadian literature to Chinese literature(s) in Asia)?
  • What is the significance of environmental themes, ecological criticism, and the notion of landscape in Canadian literature(s)? How does „nature“ fit into these questions of language? How do these literatures figure the interplay between „nature“ and „indigeneity“?
  • What is the place of other solitudes – literatures that do not fit (or do not fit easily) into the paradigm of „anglophone“ and „francophone“ literatures? What is there to be said of the East and West geopolitical divide, a reframing of Canadian solitudes?
  • How might we centre Indigenous experiences and consider Canada as Kanata? What is the relationship between Indigenous literatures and communities and the culture(s) of settler colonialism in Canada? How do Indigenous literatures work with/against, inside/outside of „Canada“? The organizing committee especially welcomes submissions discussing works in Indigenous languages.
  • Where and how do Canadian ltierary and cultural productions fit in an international context?
  • How has Canadian critical and theoretical writing been received or applied, and how might it be applied, beyond Canada? The organizers welcome sumbissions working with Canadian theoretical work in classical, medieval, or early modern contexts.

Artistic sumbissions that explore these themes and discuss or problematise these or related questions are also welcomed.

The organizers invite joint proposals for panels/roundtables as well as proposals for individual talks. They also encourage proposals for alternative and creative presentations that include a description of length and format. Proposals should be a maximum of 150 words (this limit is for the purposes of funding applications for the conference) and may be accompanied by a longer description of around 250 words. Individual talks sould be approximalety 20 minutes in duration and altogether, panels/roundtables should not exceed 90 minutes. If you are participating in a roundtable, please be prepared to speak for no more than 10 minutes in order to facilitate discussion. The organizers also request that you include a biographical statement of no more than 50 words. Please submit your abstract by 11:59pm on October 14, 2016.

For submission, please visit the conference’s website.