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Contemporary Kanata Launches

azfelipe — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:29:09 +0000

Contemporary Kanata, a new undergraduate journal in Canadian Studies is calling for abstracts for its inaugural issue. Deadline for abstracts: October 26, 2020

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Vulnerable Times: Exposure and Agency in Canadian Literature (Guest edited by Dr. Eva Darias-Beautell)

azfelipe — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:10:29 +0000

This special issue calls for articles that investigate the relation between vulnerability and agency in Canadian literature. The very notion of Canadian-ness has been traditionally associated with certain forms of vulnerability, be they historical, geographical, cultural, or ecological. At the same time, many Canadian texts seem to engage with modes of exposure that, in their radical openness, may produce complex and often unexpected spaces of responsiveness, both within the creative work and between the text and the reader.

We specifically encourage original research on Canadian texts that inhabit Hirsch’s vulnerable times, positing the creative possibilities of a notion of vulnerability across diverse temporalities and in its connection with resistance and agency. This call is for literature in a broad sense, including fictional and non-fictional forms, poetry, drama, graphic novels, and so forth. Possible topics of interest include: resilience, precarity, Indigeneity, activism, ecology, sexuality, migrancy, hospitality.

All submissions must be original, unpublished work and should follow the SAGE Harvard Reference Style and the general style guide linked to below. Articles should be between 6000 and 7000 words, including endnotes and works cited.

Submissions should be sent by email as an attached word file to the guest editor Eva Darias-Beautell (edariasb@ull.edu.es) by the deadline of December 20, 2019. All articles will go through the journal’s peer review process.

More information:
(1) About “Vulnerable Times: Exposure and Agency in Canadian Literature” — /research/robarts/wp-content/uploads/sites/466/2019/09/Vulnerable-Times-CFP.pdf
(2) How to submit & Style Guide — /research/robarts/wp-content/uploads/sites/466/2019/09/Style-Guide.-Vulnerable-Times.pdf
(3) Reference article: “Emotional politics in cleaning work: The case of Israel” — /research/robarts/wp-content/uploads/sites/466/2019/09/SAGE-Harvard-Referencing.pdf

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CFP Robarts Centre Graduate Conference 2018

azfelipe — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 18:42:41 +0000

In view of the ongoing labour disruption at York the Annual Robarts Graduate Conference has been cancelled.
We appreciate all your enthusiasm and support for the event.

Canada on the Edge?

What does it mean for Canada to be on the edge? Is it on the leading edge? Or is it falling off the edge? The conference will examine the idea of and dialogue surrounding Canada as a global leader (or not) and its role and participation in a radically changed globalized nation, where colonialism, migration, and transnationalism play an important role, both historically and presently. The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies welcomes exploration of these topics from multiple and competing perspectives at its annual conference taking place on April 19th and 20th, 2018 at �첥��Ƶ in Toronto. We solicit papers that engage with this theme from a myriad of approaches, disciplines, perspectives and lenses.

Graduate students at both the MA and PhD level are invited to submit proposals for presentations that examine the question of Canada on the Edge. The goal of this two-day conference is to provide an opportunity for graduate students to experience a professional style conference in a supportive environment. We thus encourage students from a wide variety of disciplines and from across institutions to interpret this question broadly. Potential topics may include, but are certainly not limited to, the legacies, experiences, or expressions of Canadians whose social locations vary on the basis of gender, sexuality, race, Indigeneity, ability, socioeconomic status, region, migration, status and difference. Papers on topics that explore the theme of Canada on the edge will also be considered (ex. as global leader in areas of climate change, foreign policy, international relations, development studies, literature, culture and communication studies and more!).

Reimbursement of some travel costs will be made available for students attending the entire conference from outside the Greater Toronto Area. Please submit proposals (max. 250 words) for papers or panels (as shown below) by February 26, 2018.

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Call for Participants - Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference

azfelipe — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 19:56:43 +0000

Conference Seminar — Performance Studies in Canada: Excavating Alternate Methodologies and Genealogies

Convenors: Susan Bennett, Laura Levin, Marlis Schweitzer
Date: Tuesday 29 May through Friday 1 June 2018
Location: The Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Submission Info: Please send a 250-word abstract and brief bio to Laura Levin (levin@yorku.ca) by 15 January 2018.

More and more, researchers and academic programs situated within Canada are turning to performance studies to respond to a growing interest in performances that occur both in artistic venues and in the spaces of everyday life. Despite the uptake of performance studies, however, there have been relatively few sustained reflections on how this methodology is being taught, applied, and rethought in Canadian contexts. The recent publication of Performance Studies in Canada (McGill-Queen’s Press, 2017) brings together scholars who have attempted to push forward this conversation by tracing genealogies of performance studies scholarship in Canada and highlighting significant works of performance theory and history that are rooted in the analysis of Canadian culture. Importantly, the book appeared almost simultaneously with another major collection, Canadian Performance Histories (ed. Heather Davis-Fisch, Playwrights Canada Press), which reflects on “performances that have been excluded from mainstream theatre histories” – a project that has also raised questions about what counts as “performance” within dominant disciplinary frames.

This seminar aims to reflect on the kinds of “fieldwork” showcased in these recent publications, and to ask what further meta-disciplinary work is necessary to build a critical discourse around performance studies in Canada. Questions and issues that we plan to address include:

• What institutional, geographic, and cultural conditions have produced alternative articulations of performance in Canadian contexts?
• How have locally and culturally based histories—Indigenous, Québécois, multicultural, hemispheric, etc.—complicated traditional ideas of “performance” and “nation”?

• How does the term “performance” make visible and also obscure histories of embodied enactments in the territory now known as Canada? What colonial, Euro- and Anglocentric legacies does it reproduce?
• How have performance studies methodologies complicated dominant forms of knowledge production within Canadian universities?
• What performance-based genealogies and methodologies have not yet been fully represented in emerging meta-disciplinary scholarship about the field?

Our goal in tackling these questions is to develop a fuller picture of performance studies’ historical crossings with other fields in Canada (anthropology, intangible cultural heritage studies, communication studies, etc.), its promotion of alternative ways of “practicing” research, and its enactment of the discontinuous status of national and global performance knowledge.

��ٰ��ܳ��ٳܰ��:��Conveners will assign two readings on performance studies in Canada to circulate to the seminar members prior to the conference to provide a basis for conversation. Participants will share 8-10 page papers by May 1, which excavate alternate genealogies and methodologies of performance studies in Canada, and which point to “Next Steps” for work that needs to be done for developing a critical discourse on the field. Participants will be expected to read all papers in advance and contribute to the development of preliminary discussion questions within an assigned subset of 3-4 papers. At the CATR meeting, we will then take up these questions so as to identify key methodologies and genealogies traced in the papers and consider how they extend, revise, or respond to the fieldwork provocations in the readings.

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Call for Participants - Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference

azfelipe — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 19:56:43 +0000

Submission Info: Please send a 250-word abstract and brief bio to Laura Levin (levin@yorku.ca) by 15 January 2018.

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CFP - The Life of Others: Narratives of Vulnerability for a special issue of Canada & Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literature and Cultural Studies (Spring 2018)

azfelipe — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:54:20 +0000

Call for Papers - The Life of Others: Narratives of Vulnerability for a special issue of Canada & Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literature and Cultural Studies (Spring 2018 issue). Guest Editor: Eva Darias-Beautell

In her Levinasian discussion of the functioning of ethical obligations in the face of global and local forms of precarity, Judith Butler links the production of vulnerability with a situation of “up againstness” or “unwilled adjacency,” of one’s involvement in a relation of proximity that has not been chosen (134). Vulnerability in those cases arises from the realization that “one’s life is also the life of others”, and that “the bounded and living appearance of the body is the condition of being exposed to the other, exposed to solicitation, seduction, passion, injury, exposed in ways that sustain us but al so in ways that can destroy us” (141). Itself the site of production of various forms of violence and vulnerability, this adjacency also triggers the affective and creative engagements necessary for action (134).

These seem crucial issues in Canada, where contemporary debates over citizenship and social justice often take place within complex transnational, transcultural, and (post)colonial contexts as well as beside the historical experiences of settlement and migration, with their contested forms of national or cultural belonging. Additionally, Canada’s humanitarian tradition, itself marked by convoluted narratives, is increasingly challenged by new conditions of global violence, environmental threats, social and political unrest. Canadian literatures do not merely reflect on these conditions but engage with them, exploring the aesthetic possibilities of what could be thought of as a reconnection between the text and the world. How does cultural production articulate and propose strategies of resistance to the massive production of vulnerability? Are the examples of resilience offered by Canadian literature, film, performance and visual arts able to reactivate ethical responsibility and political activism?

This special issue invites contributors to offer a critical examination of Canadian cultural production with an emphasis on the discursive modes that deconstruct the hegemonic structures that produce vulnerability. We also wish to invite research articles that interpret the present condition of (un)willed adjacency in its real and metaphoric possibilities as a site of production of violence and vulnerability, but also (potentially) of lucid creativity, exposing, soliciting, seducing “in ways that sustain us but also in ways that can destroy us.”

Possible areas of interest include (but are not limited to): urban poverty, the medicalized body, indigenous activism, colonial violence, migration and war narratives, ecological vulnerability, the posthuman seduction, emotional precarity, sexuality and (trans)narrative desire, gender and agency, technological liquidity, queer creativities, precarious labour, (non)narratives of resistance, narrative ethics and the post-truth moment. Comparatist and interdisciplinary approaches are most welcome.

All submissions to Canada & Beyond must be original, unpublished work. Articles, between 6,000 and 7500 words in length, including endnotes and works cited, should follow current MLA bibliographic format. Submissions should be uploaded to Canada & Beyond’s online submissions system (OJS) by the deadline of June the 1st, 2017. They will be peer-reviewed for the Spring 2018 issue.

Work Cited: Butler, Judith. 2012. “Precarious Life, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Cohabitation.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 26.2: 134-151.

See the full CFP here:

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CFP: "Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country," Tulsa/Miami, Oklahoma April 20-21, 2017

azfelipe — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:16:28 +0000

This “Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country” symposium is designed to examine the ways in which Native scholar-activists, American Indian communities, and non-Native scholars might work together on shared research projects. Since its inception, non-Native historians, often members of the American Society for Ethnohistory, have had only a limited engagement with the cultural preservation efforts of indigenous communities. Nevertheless, indigenous scholar-activists often consider ways to apply cutting-edge research into forms that might benefit their people. We believe that it is time for scholars, both Native and non-Native, to more directly and explicitly explore how they might work together on projects that might benefit indigenous communities.

This symposium focuses on two central questions. First, we are calling for presentations that offer a working definition of Community-Engaged Scholarship (CES), from both tribal and academic perspectives. Second, we are searching for presentations that offer models of meaningful and sustainable partnerships between indigenous communities and academic institutions, particularly ones that are designed to live beyond a single tribal citizen or scholar’s initiative.

Our goal is to draw attention to innovative programs in both Indian country and academia, with an eye for inspiring new directions in Community-Engaged Scholarship. We are particularly interested in tribally-led projects dealing with political sovereignty, linguistic and cultural revitalization, and food sovereignty. Finally, we are open to non-traditional forms of research and scholarship, such as oral interviews, graphic design and other approaches that might better suit the needs of Native communities.

Please send a 300 word abstract to the committee responsible for organizing this symposium by December 15, 2016: Stephen Warren, University of Iowa (stephen-warren@uiowa.edu), Brian Hosmer, University of Tulsa (Brian-Hosmer@utulsa.edu), Benjamin Barnes, Second Chief, Shawnee Tribe (ben.barnes@gmail.com); George Ironstrack, Assistant Director and Program Director, Education and Outreach Office, Myaamia Center (ironstgm@MiamiOH.edu); Keith Thor Carlson, University of Saskatchewan (keith.carlson@usask.ca); John P. Bowes, Eastern Kentucky University (John.Bowes@eku.edu). Successful applicants will be notified by February 1, 2017. Presenters will then be required to submit an 8-10 page working draft of their essay by April 5, 2017, two weeks prior to the symposium.

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CFP: "Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country," Tulsa/Miami, Oklahoma April 20-21, 2017

azfelipe — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:16:28 +0000

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CSN-REC Best Canadian Studies Undergraduate Essay/Thesis

azfelipe — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:56:35 +0000

The Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’études canadiennes Prize for the Best Canadian Studies Undergraduate Essay/Thesis for the 2015-2016 academic year

ABOUT: This prize is awarded annually to an outstanding interdisciplinary undergraduate research-based essay written by a full-time or part-time undergraduate student enrolled in a Canadian Studies Program at a Canadian university for an outstanding essay on a Canadian subject.

ELIGIBILITY: The essay must have been written as part of an undergraduate credit course at a Canadian University during the academic year immediately before this prize is awarded.

NOMINATION: Only Canadian Studies Department or Programs that are institutional members in good standing of the Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’études canadiennes can submit an essay for consideration. Only submit one essay per program or department can be submitted each year.

Essay/thesis should not bear any comments, grades, or other notations and should be a minimum of 15 pages in length, not including citations and references. Full contact information for both the student and the nominating faculty must be included in the package, along with contact information for the program submitting the nomination. The essays/theses must be submitted electronically to the Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’études canadiennes no later than 30 June 2016.

Entries must be sent to: csn-rec@csn-rec.ca

SELECTION: An interdisciplinary panel composed of Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’études canadiennes Executive Members and its Advisory Council will select the winner. The selection panel reserves the right not to award the prize in any given year. The winner will normally be announced by the Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’études canadiennes in September. There will be no appeals of the panel’s decision.

AWARD: The winner will receive a $100 prize and a one-year membership in the Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’études canadiennes.

Meilleur essai au niveau du premier cycle en Études canadiennes:
Prix du Réseau d'études canadiennes – Canadian Studies Network (Concours pour l’année universitaire 2015-2016)

Ce prix sera décerné annuellement pour reconnaître le meilleur essai pluridisciplinaire basé sur la recherche et soumis par un étudiant ou une étudiante (à temps plein ou à temps partiel) dans le cadre d’un programme d’études canadiennes d’une université canadienne.

L’essai doit être soumis dans le cadre d’un cours de premier cycle dans une université canadienne dans l’année universitaire qui précède le décernement de ce prix.

PROCESSUS DE MISE EN NOMINATION: Seuls les départements ou programmes d’études canadiennes qui sont membres institutionnels du RÉC-CSN peuvent soumettre une demande à ce concours. Un seul essai par programme ou département peut être soumis chaque année.

Les essais ne doivent pas inclure des commentaires ni notes, et seront d’un minimum de 15 pages de longueur (sans références). Les informations complètes concernant l’étudiant ou l’étudiante et son professeur ou sa professeure doivent être soumises, ainsi que les mêmes informations concernant le progamme. Les essais doivent être acheminés par voie électronique au RÉC-CSN au plus tard le 30 juin 2016: csn-rec@csn-rec.ca

PROCESSUS DE SÉLECTION: Un panel composé des membres du Conseil d'administration et du Comité consultatif sera formé pour prendre en charge l'adjudication des soumissions. Ce panel se donne le pouvoir de ne pas octroyer le prix s'il le juge à propos. Le gagnant ou la gagnante sera normalement annoncé(e) par le RÉC-CSN en septembre. Aucun appel de la décision du panel n'est permis.

PRIX: Le gagnant recevra un prix de 100$ et une adhésion gratuite d'une année au RÉC-CSN.

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