BACS 35th Annual Conference
Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK
6-8 April 2010

 

5th October 2009, Canadian High Commission, London UK

The British Association of Canadian Studies is pleased to announce a workshop to re-launch its Aboriginal Studies Circle. Many diverse indigenous populations around the globe have been the victims of marginalization as they confront the vast array of issues resulting from both historical injustices and contemporary global challenges. This workshop seeks to bring together academics and other professionals with an interest in indigenous studies to discuss the broad issues that affect indigenous peoples both in Canada and elsewhere.  Through building an interdisciplinary network, it is hoped that discussions of the challenges facing indigenous peoples can be drawn from the periphery of contemporary political, social, cultural, and legal discourses and brought into the mainstream.

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The deadline for submission to BACS for the following awards is 14 September 2009:

• Graduate Student Scholarships
• Publishing Fund
• Pierre Savard Award
• Best doctoral thesis in Canadian Studies

More information is available on the ICCS website.

 

                
The capture of Quebec City by British forces led by General James Wolfe in September 1759 had global consequences. It marked the beginning of the end of the French Empire in North America and led to a fundamental reshaping of British attitudes and policies towards their American colonies. It therefore seems appropriate in 2009 on the 250th anniversary of the fall of Quebec city to re-examine in the light of recent scholarship not only what happened on the Plains of Abraham but also its broader implications and the historical memories of the Conquest in Quebec, Canada, Britain, France and the USA.

This will be the focus of 1759 Revisited: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective. The conference is sponsored by the Canadian Studies programme at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas (both part of the School of the Advanced Studies at the University of London) and will be held in London from Thursday, 17 September - Saturday, 19 September 2009.

On Thursday and Friday the sessions will be held in Canada House, the home of the Canadian High Commission, in Trafalgar Square, and on Saturday in the University of London Geography Department in Bedford Way.  A detailed timetable will not be released until about a month before the event but you can find a list of the contributors and the titles of their papers and a copy of the registration form at the website of the Institute for the Study for the Americas.

Call for Papers

The International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) will hold its next biennial, international conference in Montreal during the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences to be held at Concordia University from May 28 to June 4, 2010. Proposals for twenty minute papers, to be presented in either English of French, are invited from disciplinary, multidisciplinary, or comparative perspectives on the theme of Ageing Societies - The Dynamics of Demographic Change in Canada.

Further details are on the ICCS website.

The list of books available for review in the BJCS is now available on the BACS website.