British Association for Canadian Studies Newsletter
BACS E-NewsOctober 2010 
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Québécois and Canadians Facing the Past:
Peace and (In)Security, BACS 2011
Literature Group CFP
PEOPLE AND POLITICS
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Qu�b�cois and Canadians Facing the Past:
Similarities and Differences

Canadian Programme Lecture

Professor Jocelyn L�torneau
Laval University

6.00 p.m. October 14
Room 103, Senate House
 University of London, Malet Street, London WC1

Registration Free: RSVP Olga Jimenez
ABSTRACT: Based upon a large survey about the historical consciousness of Canadians, this lecture explores the similarities and differences in the way Qu�b�cois and other Canadians engage the past in their everyday life. The difference between these two groups is not the one that might be expected. We find that Quebecers are more likely than other Canadians to report indifference about the past.  Why is this so?

 JOCELYN L�TOURNEAU, visiting fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the Royal Society of Canada.  He holds a chair in Quebec's Contemporary History, at Laval University, Quebec City. A Fulbright fellow at both UC Berkeley and Stanford University in winter 2010, he is principal investigator in CURA's "Canadians and their Pasts". He has published A History for the Future: Rewriting Memory and Identity in Quebec Today (McGill-Queen's U. Press, 2004).

Professeure ou professeur en histoire des relations internationales canadiennes

Le D�partement d'histoire de l'Universit� de Montr�al sollicite des candidatures pour un poste de professeure ou de professeur � temps plein au rang de professeur adjoint en histoire de relations internationales canadiennes et/ou qu�b�coises.  Nous sommes ouverts � toutes les sp�cialisations � l'int�rieur du champ des relations internationales : non seulement les relations politiques, �conomiques ou culturelles entre le Canada et d'autres �tats, mais �galement l'�tude des interactions du Canada avec les organismes internationaux non-�tatiques.  La recherche du (de la) candidat(e) pourrait porter aussi sur le Canada et son r�le dans les politiques internationales li�es � des questions telles l'environnement, l'immigration ou les droits humains, ou encore la place du Canada dans les institutions internationales politiques, �conomiques et culturelles. 

 

Dossiers et trois lettres d'appui devraient �tre envoy�s au professeur Michael J. Carley, directeur, D�partement d'histoire, Universit� de Montr�al, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montr�al (Qu�bec) H3C 3J7.  Pour information, contactez Gabrielle Vidal.  Une affiche avec de plus amples renseignements sera diffus�e sous peu.

 

 

NB :

La ville de Montr�al est tr�s accueillante, tr�s cosmopolite, et tr�s facile � adopter, au carrefour du monde anglais et fran�ais. Les grandes universit�s am�ricaines de la c�te est sont faciles d'acc�s. Les biblioth�ques des quatre universit�s montr�alaises sont assez riches, et disposent d'un syst�me performant de pr�t inter-biblioth�caire.

 

Deadline for applications: 29 October 2010


Peacable Kingdom by Edward Hicks
PEACE AND (IN)SECURITY:  
CANADA'S PROMISE, CANADA'S PROBLEM?

BACS 36th Annual Conference

The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

4-6 April 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

The British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) is pleased to announce that their 36th annual conference will take place on 4-6 April 2011 at the University of Birmingham.  Founded in 1900, the 'Redbrick' university is located within the United Kingdom's second largest and most diverse city. Reflecting one of the explicit priorities of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Government of Canada), the conference aims to interrogate the historical legacies, contemporary realities and cultural myths of the 'peaceable kingdom'. What constitutes peace in the context of economic instability and political insecurity? Which discourses, images and texts circulate in a time of environmental crisis and social anxiety?  How do the actions, events and conflicts of the Canadian past inflect the policies, politics and imaginings of future security?  

The British Association for Canadian Studies invites paper proposals related to notions of peace and (in)security pertaining across, within and beyond the field of Canadian Studies. Proposals for 20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, are invited from any single disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspective. Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and comparative panel proposals, including those from postgraduate students, are welcome.

Paper proposals will be especially appreciated in the following areas:
  • identities and insecurities
  • surveillance and security: histories, institutions, discourses, practices
  • cultures of dissent: texts, policies, movements, communities
  • internal or external threats, conflicts, and instabilities
  • histories, visions and narratives of peace
  • geographies, representations and economies of (in)security
Enquiries and proposals to:
Jodie Robson, BACS Administrator
Email Website
Proposals (panel and individual) and deadline:
Email abstract(s) of 200-300 words and brief CV (please do not exceed one side of A4) which must include your title, institutional affiliation, email and mailing address by 20 November 2010. 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.

CanLit
Literature Group CFP


Peace and (In)Security: Canada's Promise, Canada's Problem?

 

BACS 36th Annual Conference

The University of Birmingham, UK, 4-6 April 2011

 


 

The British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) is pleased to announce that their 36th annual conference will take place on 4-6 April 2011 at the University of Birmingham.  Founded in 1900, the 'Redbrick' university is located within the United Kingdom's second largest and most diverse city.

 

Reflecting one of the explicit priorities of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Government of Canada), the conference aims to interrogate the historical legacies, contemporary realities and cultural myths of the 'peaceable kingdom'. What constitutes peace in the context of economic instability and political insecurity? Which discourses, images and texts circulate in a time of environmental crisis and social anxiety?  How do the actions, events and conflicts of the Canadian past inflect the policies, politics and imaginings of future security? 

 

The British Association for Canadian Studies invites paper proposals related to notions of peace and (in)security pertaining across, within and beyond the field of Canadian Studies. Proposals for 20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, are invited from any single disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspective. Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and comparative panel proposals, including those from postgraduate students, are welcome.

 

For the literature panels, papers in the following areas would be especially appreciated:

 

         narratives of conflict and war

         anti-war and pacifist literatures

         visions of home and safety

         themes of violence, anger and anxiety

         (re)building communities

         aesthetics of instability

         utopian and dystopian visions

         displacement and unstable identities

         relations between nations

         representations of reparation, reconciliation and resolution

 

Enquiries and proposals to: 

Jodie Robson, BACS Administrator

Proposals (panel and individual) and deadline:

Email abstract(s) of 200-300 words and brief CV (please do not exceed one side of A4) which must include your title, institutional affiliation, email and mailing address by 20 November 2010. 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.



PEOPLE AND POLITICS: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CITIZENS AND THE CANADIAN STATE


CENTRE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES, MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY

MARCH 3-5, 2011


The Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University invites proposals for its 2011 conference, "People and Politics: Interactions Between Citizens and the Canadian State."  This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the various ways that individuals and groups influence governments and the state and the means by which political decisions affect the everyday lives of Canadians. 


The Centre for Canadian Studies welcomes proposals on subjects related to the conference them from established scholars, graduate students, and independent scholars from a variety of academic disciplines.  Potential themes include, but are not limited, to:

  • Political communications
  • Historical interactions between citizens and the state
  • Interest groups and lobbying
  • Social and political diversity
  • Alternative politics and social movements
  • Federal, provincial, and municipal politics
  • Representation of citizens and/or the state
  • The present and future of Canadian political relations


Please submit a 250-word proposal with a listing of up to 5 keywords to describe your proposed presentation to:

Email

Fax:             (506) 364-2645

Mail:             Centre for Canadian Studies

            Mount Allison University

            Sackville, NB  E4L 1G9


All submissions must be received by November 12, 2010.


Participants will also have the opportunity to be considered for a published collection following the conference.

Coordinator, Canadian Studies
Mount Allison University
63D York St.
Sackville NB
E4L 1G9