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Appel à articles N°94 (juin 2023) Etudes canadiennes : 70 ans après le Rapport Massey : État des lieux de la culture et des politiques culturelles au Canada

Deadline: December 1, 2022

The journal Études Canadiennes/Canadian Studies is pleased to announce a special issue on Canada’s cultural policies directed by Guest Editor Dr. Sandrine Ferré-Rode (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), in association with Editor-in-Chief Dr. Laurence Cros (Université Paris Cité). Seventy years ago, the Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences 1949-1951 , headed by Vincent Massey, was published. It was both the first investigation of the state of the arts and culture as well as cultural policies in Canada, and the first major plea in favor of a strategic and financial support from the federal government for culture and cultural institutions across the country. The objectives of this special issue are to take both a retrospective and prospective look at the state of cult ure and cultural policies in Canada. This will contribute to assessing the state of knowledge on the following topics, among others:

− the role played in defining objectives and priorities in Canadian cultural policy-making by the Massey Report and later reports like the Reports of the Federal Cultural Policy Review Committee (commonly known as the Applebaum-Hébert Reports) of 1981 and 1982 or, more recently, Justin Trudeau government’s Creative Canada Strategic Framework (2017);

− the history and role of cultural and heritage institutions in Canada before and after the Massey Report, but also the history and role of private foundations, corporate sponsorship and voluntary associations in culture and the arts in Canada;

− the evolution of public policies in the cultural field at the federal level, but also at the provincial level (intensified in particular by the Mulroney government in the 1980s) and at the municipal level (with the creation of Arts Councils in major Canadian cities, Public Art programs, etc.);

− the evolution of the condition of artists and creators in Canada, the impact of public policies on their agency and the role of defense associations like CARFAC (founded in 1968);

− the development of indigenous arts and culture, as well as indigenous cultural institutions ;

− the impact of free trade agreements on cultural public policies in Canada, and Canada’s leading role in championing “cultural exemption,” especially since the Mont real Declaration of 2005;

− Canada’s role in the definition and practice of cultural diplomacy (soft power).

Proposals are to be sent as a single document (Word format), to both editors (sandrine.ferre-rode@uvsq.fr and laurence.cros@u-paris.fr ), and should contain:

-a working title and an abstract (250 to 300 words )

– a brief biography (no more than 100 words).

The deadline for submission of proposals is December 1st, 2022. Notification of decisions will follow shortly afterwards.

Full articles (about 8,000 words) will need to be submitted by February 1st, 2023.

Articles should follow the formatting guide of the journal, available at https://journals.openedition.org/eccs/369

Articles will be submitted to a double peer-review process. For their articles to be published, authors must be members of the French Association of Canadian Studies (AFEC – https://www.afec33.asso.fr/ ). Selected articles will be published in issue 94 (June 2023) of Études Canadiennes/Canadian Studies , simultaneously in printed form and as an electronic publication (open access) on https://journals.openedition.org/eccs/.

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Visiting Fellowships Houghton Library, Harvard Library, Cambridge, MA/USA

https://library.harvard.edu/grants-fellowships/houghton-library-visiting-fellowships

Deadline: January 20, 2023

The Visiting Fellowship program offers scholars at all stages of their careers funding to pursue projects that require in-depth research on the library’s holdings, as well as opportunities to draw on staff expertise and participate in intellectual life at Harvard.

Houghton provides fellows with access to other libraries at the University, and opportunities to exchange knowledge and promote their research through its publications, and scholarly and public programs.

Recent fellows‘ research topics speak to the breadth and depth of Houghton’s holdings—ranging from colonial-era Native American music to the collecting of Sanskrit manuscripts, and Iberian chivalric romances to celebrity pregnancy on the London stage.

Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse amount of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

The library particularly welcomes proposals that reexamine its collections through a global lens and/or demonstrate how the holdings of a rare book and manuscript library can contribute to discourse around contemporary social, political, and cultural issues. New fellowships on gender and sexuality studies in the performing arts, and early modern black lives underscore Houghton’s commitment to diversifying perspectives on our collections.

Houghton Library is Harvard’s principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, literary and performing arts archives, and more. The Visiting Fellowship Program offers scholars at all stages of their careers funding to pursue projects that require in-depth research on the Library’s holdings.

The application deadline for 2023-2024 fellowships is January 20, 2023.

Recipients will be notified by April 1, 2023.

Contact Info: 

Peter X. Accardo

Librarian for Scholarly and Public Programs

Contact Email: accardo@fas.harvard.edu

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3 doctoral grants at GSNAS

Deadline: January 31, 2023

The Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS) at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for 3 doctoral grants with a funding period of one year (1,350 EUR per month, 2023-2024) as well as up to 7 additional doctoral memberships for candidates who have already obtained third-party funding (starting date: October 1, 2023).

We would greatly appreciate if you could forward this message to prospective candidates who are interested in pursuing a doctoral project in Cultural Studies, Economics, History, Literary Studies, Political Science or Sociology. Only doctoral projects related to the field of North American Studies can be considered. Applicants will be able to submit their applications via our online platform until January 31, 2023 at 23:59 hours GMT (deadline). Further details can be found on the attached posters and our website at gsnas.fu-berlin.de/en.

Should doctoral candidates at your institution be interested in a short-term stay (2-6 months) at GSNAS, we would appreciate to receive inquiries at visitingresearcher@gsnas.fu-berlin.de.

Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you have any further questions.

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Visiting Fellowships British Library, Eccles Centre for American Studies, London/UK

https://www.bl.uk/eccles-centre/fellowships-and-awards/fellowships

Deadline: 16 December 2022

These awards are offered to help support individuals wishing to visit London to use the British Library’s collections relating to the Americas (North America, the Caribbean, Central America, South America).

Who are the Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowships for?

We are keen to hear from all kinds of serious researchers who have the potential to produce something new, exciting, challenging and different as a result of their research into the British Library’s Americas collections. As well as applicants from academic backgrounds working on scholarly research, we also welcome independent researchers, creative practitioners working on artistic and cultural projects, and journalists, educators and scientists working on public policy problems. This means that research towards a doctoral degree, an academic article, a poetry collection, a policy paper, a classroom resource, a theatre production, a body of painting or sculpture, a new fashion collection…all these kinds of projects and more will be considered.

Applicants must be over 18 years of age but can be based anywhere in the world.

What can I research as part of the Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship programme?

There are four research themes that we are particularly excited for researchers to explore through our collections.

  • Sounds and music of the Americas
  • Americans beyond the Americas
  • American environments
  • Religion and spiritualty in the Americas

Researchers are strongly encouraged to apply with projects that align with one of these themes. If you need to use the British Library’s Americas collections for an exciting and original project that falls outside the scope of these themes you may apply as a ‘wildcard’.

You can find out more about the research themes in this blog.

How much are the Fellowships, and how long do they last?

Applicants may apply for up to the following amounts, depending on where they are based:

  • The UK (within the M25) – £1,000
  • The UK (outside the M25) – £2,000
  • Europe (excluding the UK) – £2,500
  • Rest of World – £3,000

It is expected that this award will support around a month’s work in the Library, either taken continuously, or as a number of smaller trips. The 2023 awards will last for 18 months, for those in receipt of a 2023 Fellowship, the research trip(s) will need to take place between 1 April 2023 and must be completed by 30 September 2024.How do I apply?

Applications for the 2023 competition can be submitted from Friday 8 October. We strongly encourage all potential applicants to read our Notes for Applicants document before submitting an application. All submissions must be made via our digital form. The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm GMT on Friday 16 December 2022.

All applicants are invited to submit a separate Equality, Diversity and Inclusion form that will be stored separately from your main application form, and which will be completely anonymous with no identifying information about you.

If you have any questions, please contact us at eccles-centre@bl.uk.

Further information

The British Library’s main catalogue, Explore, as well as smaller, specialist catalogues for archives and manuscripts, sound recording and photographs, can be found at the Library’s homepage, www.bl.uk. The Eccles Centre does not house a collection separate to that of the British Library, and the bibliographies on the Eccles Centre webpages provide a snapshot of some of the items in the British Library collection.

Enquiries regarding the British Library’s North American holdings can be directed in the first instance to the Eccles Centre or the Library’s Reference Enquiry Team.

Contact Info:

Dr Philip Abraham, Visiting Fellowship Manager

The Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library

Contact Email: eccles-centre@bl.uk

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CFP International Workshop: Food and Body in Colonial Contexts in Pre-modern Times (1600-1900)

University of Regensburg, Regensburg/Germany

May 4-6, 2023

Deadline: November 15, 2022

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-130213?language=en

Colonization and exploration of the non-European territories was an inherently bodily experience. Arrival to new lands meant encountering strange climates, nature, and bodies. Those physical differences had to be given a theoretical footing. Food and diet became central arguments to underscore and explain the physical and cultural differences between Europeans and indigenous people, as well as to claim Europeans’ supremacy over the inhabitants of the conquered lands. Indigenous foodways have typically been depicted as inedible, unclean, disgusting, uncivilized and improper for a European body, the maintenance of which became one of the primary imperial concerns. Thus, the physical survival of Europeans on colonial frontiers was tightly intertwined with the preservation of their cultural and religious (most often Christian) identities. Failure to keep colonial difference in place produced concerns about “barbarization”, “going native” and “hybridization” that were believed to endanger colonial regimes and the legitimacy of their claims of physical, cultural and racial supremacy over the colonized bodies.

Notwithstanding the efforts to maintain a dietary distance between newcomers and indigenous people, colonialism inevitably resulted in alteration in diets on both sides. While European foodways were often used as instruments of cultivating untamed lands as well as “civilizing” the manners of its inhabitants, many indigenous plants and recipes were adopted into European diets, opening a path to what subsequently became called the Columbian exchange and colonial food chains. In addition to foodstuffs and products, indigenous knowledge about the nourishing environment has been expropriated and integrated into the European body of knowledge.