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Emotions, Remembering and Feeling Better: Dealing with the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement in Canada

by Anne-Marie Reynaud

As the largest class action suit in Canadian history, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (2007-2015) had a great impact on the lives of Aboriginal survivors across Canada. In a rare account exploring survivor perspectives, Anne-Marie Reynaud considers the settlement’s reconciliatory aspiration in conjunction with the local reality for the Mitchikanibikok Inik First Nations in Quebec. Drawing from anthropological fieldwork, this carefully crafted book weaves survivor experiences of the financial compensations and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission together with current theorizing on emotions, memory, trauma and transitional justice.

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Lecture Series Canada 150 an der Universität Rostock

Aus Anlass des 150. Jubiläums der kanadischen Konföderation findet an der Universität Rostock, organisiert vom Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, eine „Canada 150“ Ringvorlesung satt. Die Veranstaltungen im Wintersemester sind jeweils freitags von 11.15-12.45 Uhr im Universitätshauptgebäude am Universitätsplatz, HS 218. Die 14-teilige Reihe umfasst Themen aus allen Forschungsbereichen der Kanada-Studien und bringt Experten aus dem In- und Ausland nach Rostock. Den Anfang macht Dagmara Drewniak (Poznan) am 20. Oktober mit einem Vortrag „Polish and Central European diasporic Literature in Canada“. Am 27. Oktober spricht Konrad Groß (Kiel) zum Thema “A Whiff of Canada: A Culinary Tour Through Canadian History and Literature”.

Das vollständige Programm finden Sie hier.

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Appel à contributions: Collection Études Canadiennes

La collection « Études canadiennes » de l’éditeur académique international Peter Lang est à la recherche de manuscrits originaux qui analysent les multiples facettes de la réalité canadienne ou québécoise dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire. Elle accueille des travaux (monographies, ouvrages collectifs, actes de colloques …) en français et en anglais sur tous les thèmes de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales qui ont pour objet principal le Canada ou le Québec dans leur acception la plus large mais elle met également l’accent sur les travaux comparatistes. L’une des principales originalités de la collection est aussi de publier le fruit des nombreuses recherches menées à l’extérieur du Canada. Les auteurs intéressés à publier dans la collection sont invités à envoyer leur manuscrit terminé ou une présentation détaillée de leur projet en cours à t.waser@peterlang.com ou directement au directeur de la collection, Serge Jaumain (Serge.Jaumain@ulb.ac.be).

Cf. https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/ECCS

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CfP: 2018 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference

The Departments of English and Theatre, History and Classics, Politics, and Sociology of Acadia University invite proposals the 2018 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, to be held at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada on May 4-6, 2018.

For several decades now, scholars have been attuned to Atlantic Canada’s place in the Atlantic World, and this water-based framework can be extended downward into local economic, social, and cultural networks in the region. Rivers, straits, and bays were the transportation infrastructure of the region, well into the 20th Century. Did these networks and influences survive the triumph of land-based transportation?

Themes and ideas that this conference addresses include: Indigenous narratives; Naming and claiming space; Linguistic and cultural expression; Literary and visual arts; Social capital networks within and across regions; Political literacy and public opinion; Immigration and outmigration; Demographics; Gender and generations.

See the full CfP here.

The deadline for submission of proposals is Nov. 10, 2017.

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CfP for the 8th Triennial International Conference of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies

Transnational Challenges to Canadian Culture, Society and the Environment, Sept. 20-22, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic

The Central European Association for Canadian Studies will hold its 8th Triennial International Conference from September 20-22, 2018 at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. The conference is intended to address the theme of Transnational Challenges to Canadian Culture, Society and the Environment. Canada has been a transnational country from its inception: founded on the ideas of Métis identities, forged by the metropolis-colony relationship, and modernized under the cross-boundary flow of American goods and capital. The revival of transnationalism as a widely respected lens of scholarly research in manifest fields provides us with very useful multidisciplinary bridges to study both past and contemporary Canada. In the context of growing globalization, the perspective of transnationalism of the nation-state raises important questions about overlapping (real or imagined) affiliations of individuals, communities, corporations, and social movements.

The complete English CfP can be accessed here. Click here for the French CfP.

Abstract Submission deadline: Dec. 15, 2017