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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Books for Review!
The December 2009 list of books available for review in the BJCS is available on the BACS website
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BACS
Room SB212
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
020 7862 8687
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c/o 2 Ancroft Southmoor
Berwick-upon-Tweed
TD15 2TD
01289 387331
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Democracy as a work in progress:
the intellectual and cultural dynamics
of the Canadian idea
BACS Annual Conference, New Hall Cambridge
6-8 April 2010
The deadline for registration for the 35th annual conference is approaching fast! Registration information is available on the Conference 2010 website (under Conference Forms); here you can also find the provisional programme, which can be downloaded in PDF format. Stop press!
Please note that the deadline for registration has been extended until 15 March 2010.
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Canadian novelist M.G. Vassanji in London
The Gujarat Studies Association is pleased to announce details regarding the 3rd Biennial Conference to be held in collaboration with SOAS-UCL Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). 'Cosmopolitan Connections:
Encountering Gujaratis in Multiple Contexts
Dates: Friday 9th and Saturday 10th April 2010 Venue: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London Keynote Speakers: Professor Angela Creese and M.G. Vassanji. M.G. Vassanji received the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for his book A Place Within: Rediscovering India, at a ceremony on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 in Montreal. Registration deadline extended until 12 March 2010. For further information please contact Professor Itesh Sachdev.
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LAMPETER DAY SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF WALES CANADIAN STUDIES GROUP 27 March 2010 10.30am Coffee and Registration 11am Coral Ann Howells (Reading): 'Identity Trouble: The Canadian Case' 12 noon Catherine Bates (Keele): 'Selected Organs and Sex with Bears: Some Thoughts about the Body in Selected Canadian Texts' 1pm Lunch 2pm Helen Vella-Bonavita (Lampeter): 'Adopt, Adapt, Adept: Cultural Cringe in Robertson Davies' Salterton Trllogy' 3pm William Marx (Lampeter) will introduce a documentary film: 'W.O. Mitchell: Novelist in Hiding' For those who wish to stay on, our English Department is arranging a poetry reading at 5pm and an evening meal will also be arranged (at an extra cost). The cost for the Day-School (to include coffee and buffet lunch) will be approx. £15. NB: we need at least 20 people to provide the lunch at this price. Overnight accommodation can also be arranged - please contact: Professor C.C. Eldridge, BA, PhD, FRHistS Department of History University of Wales Lampeter Lampeter Ceredigion, SA48 7ED Tel. Direct Line: 01570 424744 |
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The Neoconservative Attack on Canadian Social Democracy
The School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham presents a talk by
Ed Broadbent
Ed Broadbent was leader of Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP), the country's social-democratic party, from 1975 to 1989. He was returned to Parliament in 2004-2006. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto and has been a fellow at All Soul's College, Oxford, and Queen's University, Canada.
Wednesday, March 17, 5:00 p.m.
Trent Building, Room A46, The University of Nottingham
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ACSANZ 15th Biennial Conference
The Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ) is holding its 15th Biennial Conference at the University of New England from 4-7 July, 2010. The Conference will be held in conjunction with the Federation Dialogue, a major event for Australia and Canada. The conference organizers welcome proposals for individual papers or panels relating to the above theme from any discipline. All proposals for papers and/or panels must be submitted by March 15, 2010. Further details. |
8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference
Call for Papers
The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference will be held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland from Thursday 23-Sunday 26 June, 2011.
We invite proposals for panels and individual 20 minute papers that engage a variety of transatlantic and/or transnational topics in the literatures and cultural histories of the Atlantic world. The conference is certainly not limited to local concerns, although papers that treat Glasgow (and Scotland, more widely) as a site of Atlantic cultural exchange are especially welcome, as are those examining the first decade of Transatlantic literary responses to 9/11, 2001-2011. Submissions are encouraged from scholars of literary history from the early modern period to the present.
Please submit a 300-word abstract and a 1-page CV as Microsoft Word attachments to Dr Chris Gair by the end of September, 2010. Inquiries are welcome before then. More details of the conference will be posted on the journal's website and on its Facebook page.
Dr Chris Gair Managing Editor, Symbiosis University of Glasgow Department of English Literature 5 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: 0141 330 8596
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 University of Aberdeen Global Empires Post-Graduate Research Project
In recent years across a range of disciplines, empire has become a paradigm for rethinking a globalized world. In this context, the University of Aberdeen is pleased to advertise a number of Masters (fees only) and Doctoral (fees and partial maintenance) Studentships within a broader interdisciplinary project on the 'Ideas, Practices, and Impacts of Global Empires'. This brings together a supervisory team drawn from History, Anthropology, Hispanic Studies, International Relations, and the University's museums. Within the project, we are interested in a number of themes: cross cultural encounters and collecting; material culture and visual representations of encounters; trade, migration, and empire; the ideologies of empires; and resistance and the ends of empires. Our areas of focus include: the British and American empires (especially Canada, the American South, South Asia, South Africa and the Antipodes); empires past and present in Latin America; Holy Roman Empire; modern German empires within and beyond Europe; Russia, especially Soviet Russia, including Russian informal empires; and competing imperialisms in East Asia. We invite applications from candidates with research interests (interdisciplinary or within the disciplines named above) touching one or more of these themes and areas.
Available studentships
2010-11 - 3 x Home Fees PhD Studentships
- 2 x Research Preparation Masters Studentships
2011-12 In addition, the committee awarding studentships for the project will be able to allocate some funds towards maintenance. Closing date: Friday 30 April Code: RPAS2009NOV03 Please ensure that you quote this code on your application form under 'Intended Source of Funding' if you wish to be considered for funding under this research theme Further details of the bid, and potential supervisors across the named disciplines. Informal enquiries should be sent to:
Lecturer in History
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Atlantic-community.org
Atlantic-community.org is a project conducted by the Atlantische Initiative, a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Berlin. The Atlantische Initiative was founded in 2004 in order to promote transatlantic cooperation and strengthen Germany's foreign policy culture. Atlantic-community.org is the first online platform for transatlantic debate on key issues of international politics and globalization. Its aim is to end the exclusivity of policy discourse and give voice to a new generation of thinkers and young leaders.
You can join on the Atlantic-community.org website.
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