Autor: GKS

Deadline: February 15, 2023

Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN/USA

October 21-22, 2023

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/11919311/disability-vast-early-americas

(Hybrid)

In association with the University of Notre Dame and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, conference organizers, Laurel Daen and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, invite abstracts for a conference on “Disability in the Vast Early Americas” to be held as a hybrid event at the University of Notre Dame on October 21-22, 2023. We hope that work presented at this conference will lead to publication in a special collection.

The conference organizers invite papers that examine the experiences, representations, concepts, and categories of disability among diverse peoples in the Americas from the pre-Columbian era to approximately 1850. We conceive of disability broadly and encourage works that address intersecting structures of oppression that include ableism. We also welcome papers that utilize disability as an analytic to interrogate how power operated within the early Americas.

Our “vast” geographic scope includes scholarship on North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America as well as related developments in Africa, Europe, the Mediterranean, and Britain. We welcome interdisciplinary and collaborative work as well as submissions that expand the methodological approaches to disability history. We also invite papers that consider new or alternative meanings of “disability” in the premodern era.

Deadline for abstracts: Jan. 15, 2023

Deadline for essays April 15, 2023

When we are in the throes of major crises, from the global pandemic to a pending climate apocalypse, thinking about a different tomorrow may feel impossible. Designing alternative futures has become one of the central cultural tasks of the twenty-first century, and Indigenous North American writers, visual artists, curators, comedians, film makers, video game designers, and web developers are at the forefront of this movement. From pre-contact stories to contemporary science fiction, Indigenous cultures abound with visions of the future as sites of “survivance” (Gerald Vizenor). While settler colonialist imaginaries of progress have, for the longest time, strategically displaced Native cultures into a fixed, containable past, Indigenous literatures and cultures not only successfully defy these mechanisms of Othering but offer sustainable variants of futurity in powerful networks of transnational exchange.

Simultaneously, futurity is not only a concept and theme, but an active process towards empowerment and social change, a methodology that foregrounds and centers Indigenous knowledges. As Mvskoke geographer Laura Harjo puts it, Indigenous futurity is “the enactment of theories and practices that activate our ancestors’ unrealized possibilities, the act of living out the futures we wish for in a contemporary moment, and the creation of the conditions for these futures.”¹

Deadline: January 15, 2023

The editors of the American Review of Canadian Studies invite submissions for the journal’s biennial Thomas O. Enders Special Issue on Canada–U.S. Relations, which they plan to publish in late 2023. Full–length article submissions from all disciplines and from interdisciplinary perspectives are welcome, but they should, in some way, focus on the issue’s main theme: the past, present, or future of Canada–U.S. Relations.
The Enders Special Issue is named in honor of the former United States Ambassador to Canada (1976–81). Among the many interests Thomas Enders pursued during his distinguished career in foreign service was the promotion of Canadian Studies in his own country. The Enders Foundation, which he established, provides funding for the publication of this biennial special issue.
Deadline for submissions for the 2023 Enders Special Issue of ARCS: January 15, 2023. All completed article manuscripts for this special issue should follow ARCS’s regular guidelines for length and citation format. See the “Instructions for Authors” page on the ARCS website for details.
For more information, contact:
Andrew Holman or Brian Payne, Co–editors, American Review of Canadian Studies
arcs@bridgew.edu