Kategorie: Veranstaltungen

Conference, May 4 – 6, 2017, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC (Canada)

In the prize-winning book Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call, Arthur Manuel strikes a hopeful note by suggesting that „the flood waters of colonialism are, at long last, receding“ (223). Nonetheless, the arrival and settlement of non-Indigenous peoples and species in North America utterly transformed relationships and environments, and the legacies of colonialism remain profound. Unsettling British Columbia means acknowledging and confronting these legacies, disturbing traditional perspectives of the province, and reexamining its economic, social and political systems.

As unsettling as this may be for some, it is necessary if Indigenous and non-Indigenous British Columbians are to build a better future for all. For BC Studies 2017, the organizers seek papers that explore relationships and tensions between the settled and the unsettled in British Columbia’s past, present, and future.

Themes and ideas that this conference addresses include (but are not limited to):

• Colonialism and resistance
• Treaties and treaty-making
• Land – its uses and meanings
• Truth and Reconciliation
• Energy past, present, and/or futures
• Gender roles, identities, and expressions
• Immigration and identities
• British Columbia in Confederation
• Indigenizing the Academy in BC

The organizers welcome proposals for individual papers, panels, and posters from scholars and researchers across all disciplines, and encourage multi-disciplinary or thematic panels on any toic related to British Columbia (including comparative/transnational studies). Student proposals are encouraged, as are proposals for interactive workshops or roundtables.

Panels, roundtables, workshops: A short description (1oo words) of the theme for the session, as well as abstracts (~250 words) for each paper or presentation, and a one-page CV for each presenter. Please indicate who will be the main contact for the proposal.

Individual papers: abstract (~250 words) and a one-page CV.

Posters: a brief description (~ 50 – 100 words) of the theme and a one-page CV.

Deadline for submission: Monday, October 31, 2016.

Please send all proposals electronically to Timothy Lewis or Katharine Rollwagen at this mail address.

Conference, 6 – 10 April 2017, National Museum of Immigration, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Organizers: Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage (University of Birmingham, UK), Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP, University of Illinois)

In partnership with: Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF, Argentina), UNESCO CHair in Cultural Tourism (Argentina), Museums of Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (National Museum of Immigration, Argentina)

The early colonization of the Americas represented the layering of cultures and new inscriptions of place. Today we see conceptions of the stability of ‚old world‘ that have been challenged by centuries of two-way flows of people and objects, each engendering new meanings, allowing for new interpretations of landscape, the production of identities and generating millions of stories. The emergenge of the ’new world‘ in opposition to the old – in real, imaginary and symbolic terms – problematizes sense of place and induces consideration of a ‚placelessness‘ as a location for ideas of home, memory and belonging. This conference looks at the actors and processes that produce and reconfigure the old world in the new, and the new world in the old across the Atlantic – north and south – through constructions of heritage in material and immaterial form. Its focus is upon the widely conceived Trans-Atlantic but the organizers also welcome contributions that focus on the heritages of migration from around the world.

Held at the National Museum of Immigration, Buenos Aires, Argentina – a country that itself has seen mass immigration – this conference asks:

• What objects and practices do migrants value and carry with them in their movements between old and new worlds?
• How do people negotiate and renegotiate their „being in the world“ in the framework of migration?
• How is memory enacted through material culture and heritage into new active domains?
• What stories are told and how are they transmitted within and between migrant communities and generations?
• How is the concept of home made meaningful in a mobile world?
• Where do performances of identity „take place“ so as to generate new landscapes of collective memory?
• How do the meanings of place and placelessness change over generations from an initial migration?

The conference is designed to encourage provocative dialogue across the fullest range of disciplines. Thus the organizers welcome papers from academic colleagues in fields such as anthropology, archaeology, art history, architecture, business, communication, ethnology, heritage studies, history, geography, literary studies, media studies, museum studies, popular culture, postcolonial studies, sociology, tourism, and urban studies. Indicative topics of itnerest to the conference include:

• The heritage of trans-Atlantic encoutners – ways and means of corssing distances
• Performing place and new inscriptions of placelessness
• Migration and urban territories – settlement processes and practices
• Travelling intangible heritages – the rituals, practices, festivals of home away
• Diasporic heritage communities
• Migrating memories
• Representations of migration/immigration in popular culture

How to submit an abstract:

Abstracts of 300 words submitted in the conference format should be sent as soon as possible but no later than October 14, 2016. Please click on this link to submit your abstract via the online form.

If you have any difficulty with the online submission form, or any other queries, please email Hannah Stretton.

A conference hosted by the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ)

13th – 14th July, 2017, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Keynote Speakers: Associate Professor Eric Adams, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta

2017 marks the 150 years since the inception of the Canadian state with the British North America Act, 1867, and 35 years since 1982’s constitutional patriation, including the enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. While legal acts serve as focal points for the creation (and re-creation) of the Canadian state, the connotations of Canada’s constitutive documents operate across law, politics, history, geography, society, and culture, with consequences for the past, present, and future. To engage with the manifold cultural-legal meanings that constitutions and their anniversaries evoke and contest, the ACSANZ invites abstracts for papers that address the idea of constitutions and Canada.

The conference will ask how nations, states, and peoples in Canada have been constituted, and investigate the significance of constitutive moments in the Canadian context. Participants are invited to reflect on questions that include, but are not limited by:

• How do constitutive documents represent, legitimate, or deny indigenous, multicultural, gendered, and federal histories and claims?
• How has Canada’s constitutional model and history shaped Canada, and how have these changes resonated internationally?
• How do the arts constitute Canada and its communities? How are constitutive texts and histories reflected upon in the arts, and how are the arts shaping Canada’s legal consciousness?
• How has the Canadian Constitution addressed its imposition upon pre-contact societies with their own legal and political orders?
• What does the presence (or absence) of rights language in foundational documents like constitutions mean for their legal and affective power?
• How are the discontents of Canadian statehood and nationhood?
• How do we remember and represent the creation of states and nations, and what does it mean to celebrate such a contested moment in time?
• What attributes of Canada’s Constitution and its experience that have special resonance for Australia and New Zealand?
• What possibilities does constitutional change offer for imagining and re-imagining the Canada?

Contributions from across disciplines that deal with all aspects of Canada and Canadian Studies, including from a comparative perspective, are welcomed. Please email an abstract and brief bio to Dr. Robyn Morris and Dr. Benjamin Authers by December 1st, 2016.

A Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation
Une célébration du 150e anniversaire de la Confédération Canadienne

42nd Annual Conference of the British Association of Canadian Studies, Canada House, London, April 20 – 22, 2017

On this historic anniversary, papers on themes of enduring interest to Canadianists will be welcomed. Space, however, is limited and priority will be given to paper sessions and round-table panels on the following themes:

• Citizenship, Diversity, Migration, Identity, Indigeneity, Social Policy
• Contemporary Canadian Culture, Art, Literature, Media, Dance, Film
• Geography, Environment, Energy, The North, The Arctic
• International Relations, Canada-UK Relations
• Post-Secondary Education, especially Canada-UK University Links
• Trade, Politics, Business, Law

Abstracts of 400 words, together with short bio(s) of 100 words should be submitted by November 30, 2016 to the Conference Adminsitrator, Sue Scott-Martin.

Keynote Speaker/Panellists invited include: The hon. Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada; Patrick Holditch (FCO) and former British and Canadian High Commissioners. Professors Jocelyn Letourneau, Coral Ann Howells, Colin Coates, Will Kymlicka, Klaus Dodds and Guy LaForest.

Updates will be posted on: www.canadian-studies.net

Inaugural Conference on Concepts of Contradiction in the Humanities, University of Bremen, 9 – 11 Feb, 2017

This international and interdisciplinary conference seeks to outline the new field of „Contradiction Studies“ in the Humanities, focusing on the interactions between seemingly contradictory socio-cultural phenomena and practices. This will allow an understanding of distinct, yet related categories such as antagonism, paradox, antinomy, and their uses within and beyond disciplinary boundaries. Participants will explore material instances and aspects of contradiction, as well as its theories and practice(s). The interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives of this conference will center on three key areas in the conference sessions:

a) Fields of Contradiction, i.e. contradictory topics, semantic aspects, and social or cultural phenomena linked to contradictions

b) Structures of Contradiction, i.e. (semiotic) forms of marking and negotiating contradictions

c) Practices of Contradiction, i.e. contradictory agency and institutional strategies.

Discussion will fathom the potential of Contradiction Studies as a central paradigm in the Humanities, and to this end the organizers invite scholars from a broad spectrum of disciplines, including art history, cultural and social anthropology, educational science and curriculum studies, geography, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary studies, performance studies, philosophy, political science, postcolonial studies, religious studies, and sociology.

The organizers are happy to announce that the following distinguished scholars are invited to address the conference as keynote speakers:

Prof. Dr. Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga (EHESS, Paris, France – invited, to be confirmed)

Prof. Dr. Jane Burbank (New York University, USA – invited, to be confirmed)

Dr. Stefan Müller (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany – confirmed)

Prof. Dr. Barbara Schmenk (University of Waterloo, Canada – confirmed)

Research questions may include, but are not limited to:

• In what ways are contradictions genuine elements and objects of knowledge production in the Humanities and beyond?
• Why and to what extent can practices and institutions of knowledge sustain contradictions?
• How are contradictions negotiated in institutions, and what is the role of the Humanities in these practices?
• How do contradictory aspects of power influence the paradigmatic developments in the Humanities?
• What are significant contradictions in power relations among social, historical, and/or cultural agents?

Accepted paper proposals will be arranged with respect to the above-mentioned aspects in three sessions: Fields of Contradiction, Structures of Contradiction, and Practices of Contradiction.

The organizers invite presentations of no longer than 20 minutes. Please submit your abstracts and proposals (max. 1,500 characters including spaces) here, or send an e-mail, along with your contact information, to this mail address.

The submission deadline is August 31, 2016.

There will be a poster session for young researchers, and for presentation of work in progress. Poser proposals (max. 1 page) should be submitted as PDF files, no later than October 31, 2016.

Conference registration will be open on the conference website from July 1, 2016, until December 15, 2016. The website will also carry information concerning the conference venue, accomodation, travel, and conference dinner.

Attendance fees are set daily, at 40 € per conference day. A reduced fee for students, independent scholars, and the underemployed is set at 20 € per conference day.