About BACS
The British Association for Canadian Studies acts as a forum for Canadianists in the UK and holds an annual conference at Easter each year. BACS publishes a Newsletter twice yearly and the British Journal of Canadian Studies is produced by Liverpool University Press.
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BACS
31 Tavistock Square
London WC1H 9HA
020 7862 8687
or:
c/o 2 Ancroft Southmoor
Berwick-upon-Tweed
TD15 2TD
01289 387331
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Being, Belonging and Becoming: Multiculturalism, Diversity and Social Inclusion in Modern Canada
34th annual conference
St Annes's College, Oxford
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Heidi Macpherson, De Montfort University
M. Gérard Bouchard, Quebec
Professor Keith Banting, Queens University Kingston
The Honorable Madam Justice
Rosalie Silberman Abella
The British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) is pleased to announce that the 2009 annual conference will take place on 28-30 March 2009. Proposals for 20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, are invited from any single disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspective. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary panel proposals, including those from postgraduate students, are also welcome.
Canada is renowned for "incorpora[ting] an embrace of diversity into their national mythologies" (Kernerman, 2005). This conference will consider a breadth of subjects in relation to the construction, evolution, evaluation and representation of modern Canada and its appreciation and recognition of matters of cultural difference. Papers are welcomed from any disciplinary approach and include those which offer an informed view of Canada in comparative context.
PAPERS WILL BE ESPECIALLY APPRECIATED IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
· multiculturalism, citizenship, policy, management
· law, human rights, constitution, freedom
· societies, integration/disintegration, inclusion/exclusion
· diversity, ethnicity, tolerance
· cultures and literatures
· representation, identity, self, history, meaning and recognition
· well being, the local and the global
· metropolis, cities, towns and ruralis
ENQUIRIES AND PROPOSALS TO:
Jodie Robson, BACS Administrator
31 Tavistock Square
London WC1H 9HA
Tel: 44 (0) 20 7862 8687 / 44 (0) 1289 387331
Email
PROPOSALS (PANEL AND INDIVIDUAL) AND DEADLINE:
Email abstract(s) of 200-300 words; and brief CV(s) (must include title(s), institutional affiliation(s) and address(es) by 30 November 2008. Submissions will be acknowledged by email.
Postgraduate students are especially welcome to submit a proposal and there will be a concessionary conference fee for students. BACS regrets that it is unable to assist participants with travel and accommodation costs.
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Eccles Centre Fellowships
Eccles Centre Visiting Professor in North American Studies 2009
One award to be made to post-doctoral scholar resident in the USA or
Canada whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails
the use of the British Library collection. The award holder must plan
to be in research residence at the British Library for a minimum of
three months.
Eccles Centre Visiting Fellows in North American Studies 2009
Three awards to be made to post-doctoral scholars normally resident
in the UK, outside the M25, whose research, in any field of North American
Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection. The award
holder must plan to be in research residence at the British Library
for a minimum of one month.
Eccles Centre Postgraduate Awards in North American Studies 2009
At least five awards to be made to graduate students normally resident
in the UK, outside the M25, whose research, in any field of North American
Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection.
Deadline: 30 January 2009. For further information and application procedure see the Eccles Centre website
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War and Peace in Canadian History
The annual conference of the BACS History Group, on the theme of War and Peace in Canadian History has been provisionally scheduled for Friday 17 July 2009 at Canada House, Trafalgar Square, to follow on from the TSA conference 13-16 July. The conference will mark the anniversary of the establishment of the Canadian Department of External Affairs (now the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade) in 1909. This date is usually seen as marking the symbolic transfer of responsibilty for Canadian foreign policy from London to Ottawa, although it took many more years for Canada to achieve full independence from Britain its foreign policy. The conference will be entitled "100 Years of Canadian Foreign Policy, 1909-2009" and is expected to attract leading scholars from Canada, Britain and the USA. Funding is being sought for travel and accommodation expenses of speakers, including graduate students. If you are interested in attending or giving a paper please contact Tony McCulloch as early as possible so that funding arrangements can be made in good time.
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British Journal of Canadian Studies - Books for review
The list of books available for review in the BJCS is now available on the BACS website.
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Canadian Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships
As
part of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP), the
Government of Canada invites up to 25 nominations for one-year
post-doctoral research fellowships tenable at recognised public
Canadian universities and affiliated research institutes only.
Applicants
must be citizens of the United Kingdom. Anyone who has obtained
Canadian citizenship or who has applied for permanent residency in
Canada shall not be eligible for an award.
Applicants
must have completed a Ph.D. degree within the last four years or have
completed the Ph.D. degree requirements before taking up the award
(evidence of submission of dissertation for defence provided by the
responsible department head). Deadline 28 November 2008. For further information and application procedure see the AECB website.
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Mapping Visual Diversity in Canada: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
LCCS (London Conference for Canadian Studies) in
conjunction with the British Library Eccles Centre for American
Studies are pleased to announce a forthcoming one-day conference to be held in the British Library Conference Centre on Monday 23rd
February 2009.
The conference will focus on photographic
representations of Canadian landscape and peoples from the nineteenth
century to the present. How have photographers depicted Canada,
including for those from outside the country and unfamiliar with its
environmental and cultural diversity? It is hoped to include both
historical papers, discussing classic collections such as the Notman
archive and the BL's own collections, and contemporary photography that
raises questions about the portrayal of diverse environments and
environmental problems, multiculturalism, and native peoples. Keynote
speakers from Canada will be Professor Joan Schwartz (Queen's
University, Kingston) on photographic nation-building in
nineteenth-century Canada, and Professor Colleen Skidmore
(University of Alberta), who is an expert on women and native people in
photography.
If you would like to offer a 20-30-minute paper, please contact Dr Richard Dennis, Dept of Geography, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT as soon as possible (and
definitely no later than 5 December). Please also contact Dr Dennis if
you would like to be informed when the complete programme and booking
forms are available.
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BACS Legal Studies Group Conference 2009
Call for Papers, second circulation
St Anne's College, University of Oxford 28-30 March 2009
'Being,
Becoming and Belonging: Multiculturalism, Diversity and Social Inclusion in
Modern Canada'
Keynote Speaker:
The Honorable Madam
Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella
The
British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) in association with the BACS
Legal Studies Group (LSG) is pleased to announce that the 2009 annual
conference will take place on 28-30 March 2009. The final
day of the conference, March 30 2009, will be devoted to a special
focus on Anglo-Canadian legal issues, encompassing questions of Human Rights,
Religion, Civil Society and Democratisation in relation the key themes of Multiculturalism,
Diversity and Social Inclusion. The
legal conference themes are to be construed broadly, and papers may relate to
any or all of the following themes: Peace and Security; Democracy, Rule of Law,
Human Rights; Managing Diversity. Papers are welcomed in French or English from
any disciplinary/interdisciplinary approach addressing these key issues - please
send expressions of interest and/or abstracts by 31 December 2008 to
Professor Jane Wright, University of Essex.
Expressions
of interest from postgraduate students and/or practitioners are particularly
welcome, however, the organisers regret that they are unable to assist with
travel and accommodation costs.
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Culture and the Canada-US Border
Call
for Papers
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK 26-28 June, 2009
Keynote Presenters: Kimberly Blaeser (University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Wayde Compton (Simon Fraser University)
Gordon
Henry, Jr. (Michigan State University)
Lynette Hunter (University of California-Davis)
Gerald Vizenor (University of New Mexico)
Border studies
in North America has hitherto focused primarily on the United States' border
with Mexico, the point at which, Gloria Anzaldúa has noted, 'the Third World
grates against the first and bleeds'. This conference seeks to shift border
discussions North to the 49th parallel and its representation in both Canadian
and American cultural products and, in so doing, to offer an intervention into
familiar border discourses. If the US-Mexico border effects a brutal
juxtaposition of national economic prosperity and deprivation, operating
alongside a generally perceived linguistic and ethnic divide, what functions do
we attribute to the Canada-US border, traditionally celebrated as the longest
undefended border in the world? How far North can we take the insights produced
by US-Mexico border studies-or do we need different theories altogether for a
different border? If the Canada-US border figures prominently in Canadians'
sense of their national identity, how does it figure south of the border? And
to what extent do subnational groups' relationships to this border diverge from
dominant national positions?
We invite papers
that examine issues raised by the cultural implications of Canada-US border in
Canadian and/or American literature, television, cinema, visual art, music, and
other cultural forms. Papers may address, but are not limited to, the following
issues: -
Indigeneity and cross-border identifications
and dislocations
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Challenges to nation-state borders posed
by indigenous self-determination
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Challenges to nation-state borders and
the idea of the nation posed by Québec nationalism
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Diasporic communities across the border
(e.g. relationships between African-Canadian and African-American culture;
between Asian-Canadian and Asian-American culture)
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The border in dominant national(ist)
fictions
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Constructions of Canada-US sameness and
difference
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Comparisons of Canadian and American
impressions of the Canada-US border
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Comparisons of the 49th parallel and the
Alaska/Yukon border
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Comparisons of Anglo-Canada's and
Québec's relationship to the Canada-US border
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Assessments of the usefulness of
US-Mexico border studies, and border theory based on the US-Mexico border, to
the Canada-US border
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Hemispheric contextualisation of the
Canada-US border.
Papers will be
20 minutes long. Proposals for both individual papers and panels are welcome.
Please send a 300-word abstract and short bio-biographical note to both David Stirrup and Gillian Roberts by 5 December 2008.
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