Autor: GKS

CFP: „Crisis“ and Forced Migration: Manifestations of power in a changing world – 14th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 3. Juni 2022

Hosted virtually in collaboration with the Human Rights Program at St. Paul’s University College at the University of WaterlooNovember 2-4, 2022

Submission deadline: July 15, 2022

Detailed call for papers available at

https://pheedloop.com/carfms22/proposal/start/?call=CALXZ134B27KWAU

The 2022 CARFMS Conference will bring together researchers, policymakers, NGOs, practitioners, students, displaced persons, and advocates from diverse disciplinary and regional backgrounds to discuss how to claim, exercise, or resist power in responses to the multiple, overlapping global forced migration crises that currently face the world. The conference will feature keynote and plenary speeches from leaders in the field and refugees, and we welcome proposals for individual papers, organized panels and roundtables Contact Info: Anna Purkey, Assistant Professor and Director of the Human Rights Program at St. Paul’s University College at the University of Waterloo. Contact Email: apurkey@uwaterloo.ca

Aktuelles Veranstaltungen

Jennifer Dummer: „Chanson, Rock, Pop, Rap – die vielfältige, bunte und belebte Musiklandschaft Québecs“ (Zoom)

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 30. Mai 2022

Donnerstag, den 9. Juni 2022; Beginn: 8.30 Uhr über Zoom
Übertragung in Raum S213

Universität Regensburg, Institut für Romanistik
Anmeldung und Zoom-Zugang über dagmar.schmelzer@ur.de

Die Musikszene der frankokanadischen Provinz ist von vielen Einflussen geprägt. Ein Blick in die Geschichte Québecs zeigt, woher diese kommen und auch welche Umbrüche und Krisen es gab. Die Analyse ausgewahlter Lieder zeigt zudem, was die Québecer Musik kennzeichnet. Dass die Szene heute so vielfaltig und belebt ist, liegt auch an umfangreichen Förderangeboten verschiedener Institutionen und an zahlreichen Plattformen, die die lokale Musikszene präsentieren.

Jennifer Dummer studierte französische Literaturwissenschaft in Mainz, Berlin und Montréal. Auf jenni smusikbloqc.com und quelesen.com informiert sie über die Québecer Musik- und Literaturszene. 2020 erschien ihre zweisprachige Anthologie Pareil, mais différent — Genauso, nur anders (dtv) mit Kurzgeschichten von frankokanadischen und Québecer Autor-innen, 2021 folgten die Bücher Uiesh —Irgendwo von Joséphine Bacon und Reiz der Rache von J. D. Kurtness, die sie zusammen mit Andreas Jandl für den Berliner KLAK Verlag übersetzt hat. www.jenniferdummer.com

Aktuelles Call for Papers

CFP War College of the Seven Years’ War

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 30. Mai 2022

Fort Ticonderoga, NY/USA, May 19-21, 2023

Deadline: July 31, 2022

https://www.fortticonderoga.org/call-for-papers/

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought war to Continental Europe in a form not seen in decades. The outbreak of a continental war, the invasion of a neighboring territory, and even the players in today’s unfolding saga remind us of many historical examples, including the Seven Years’ War. During this global conflict unprovoked invasion and a drawn out war in Europe featured as some of the many aspects of this cataclysmic struggle. Whether from a comparative lens, or more specifically plumbing the nuances of the specific period 1754-1763, Fort Ticonderoga seeks proposals for papers broadly addressing the period the Seven Years’ War for its Twenty-Seventh Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War to be held May 19-21, 2023.

Aktuelles Call for Papers

CFP edited collection Spheres of Interaction: A handbook of Global Oceanic Encounters

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 30. Mai 2022

Deadline for abstract: September 30, 2022

Global Encounters Monash (GEM) The Global Encounters Monash project explores relationships between First Nations peoples and those who come from across the seas. While our prime focus is on Australian First Nations and their history of encountering and interacting with people, technologies, plants, animals, and ideas from across the seas, we are interested in comparative stories of oceanic encounters and interactions. The Global Encounters team are looking beyond Australia’s coasts as we explore the nature of encounters around the world, from the perspectives of both insiders looking out and outsiders looking in. We are imaginatively examining encounters onboard the visiting ships, as well as those that took place on the traditional lands of Indigenous peoples. This project takes an expansive view of archives and sources as we explore texts, oral histories and stories, rock art and material culture, plant and vegetation histories, introduced animals, and language and linguistic evidence.

Aktuelles Call for Papers

CFP Toronto Chic Symposium

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 25. Mai 2022

Toronto Chic Symposium
Friday, September 30th, 2022
Jackman Humanities Building, University of Toronto

Deadline: June 15, 2022

In recent years, Toronto has steadily positioned itself as a fashionable city. References to “Hogtown” and “Toronto the Good” have long been replaced with the upbeat “T. Dot” and the slick moniker “the 6ix” — made famous by the celebrated Toronto-born rap artist, Drake. In Who’s Your City? (2008), Richard Florida praised Toronto’s “messy urbanism,” and finding his adopted city a hotbed of diversity, culture and intellectualism, he characterized Toronto as a creative city. In the last decade, Toronto’s global profile has continued to rise. In 2014, Vogue declared Queen West the second coolest neighbourhood in the world, and after the celebrations of the 2019 NBA season, the city was awash in spectacle and grandeur. Nevertheless, Toronto has also been the subject of mayoral scandal and ridicule, and, in the latest decade, a site of much violence and protest. Additionally, the city has seen the loss of major cultural institutions such as concert halls, theatres, fashion weeks and brick-and-mortar stores. In the wake of COVID, Toronto creatives have been prompted and forced to venture into online and remote modes of work and presentation. Indeed, the new millennium has offered an opportunity to investigate how Toronto artists, designers, writers, filmmakers and thinkers have fashioned their city to reflect a more contemporary vision for Toronto’s urban imaginary.

In “Chic Theory” (1997), Joanne Finkelstein acknowledged that “The emphasis that city life gives to appearances concentrates attention on the fashionable.” In this regard, this symposium reflects larger discourses as they relate to urban change in Toronto. In particular, this symposium is in dialogue with the locational histories of fashion that have been investigated in Berliner Chic (Ingram and Sark, 2011), Wiener Chic (Ingram and Reisenleitner, 2014), Montreal Chic (Sark and Bélanger-Michaud, 2016) and L.A. Chic (Ingram and Reisenleitner, 2018). These texts demonstrate how fashion, understood broadly as both a signifier of clothing and style and as a barometer of social, technological and political change, is an integral component of the city.