Le Département d'histoire de l'Université de Montréal sollicite des candidatures pour un poste de professeure ou de professeur à temps plein au rang de professeur adjoint en histoire de relations internationales canadiennes et/ou québécoises.  Nous sommes ouverts à toutes les spécialisations à l'intérieur du champ des relations internationales : non seulement les relations politiques, économiques ou culturelles entre le Canada et d'autres États, mais également l'étude des interactions du Canada avec les organismes internationaux non-étatiques.  La recherche du (de la) candidat(e) pourrait porter aussi sur le Canada et son rôle dans les politiques internationales liées à des questions telles l'environnement, l'immigration ou les droits humains, ou encore la place du Canada dans les institutions internationales politiques, économiques et culturelles. 

Dossiers et trois lettres d'appui devraient être envoyés au professeur Michael J. Carley, directeur, Département d'histoire, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7.  Pour information, contactez Gabrielle Vidal.  Une affiche avec de plus amples renseignements sera diffusée sous peu.

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La ville de Montréal est très accueillante, très cosmopolite, et très facile à adopter, au carrefour du monde anglais et français. Les grandes universités américaines de la côte est sont faciles d'accès. Les bibliothèques des quatre universités montréalaises sont assez riches, et disposent d'un système performant de prêt inter-bibliothécaire.

Deadline for applications: 29 October 2010

• 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

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 36^th 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.