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.  
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Books for Review!
The current list
of books available for review in the BJCS is available on the BACS website
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BACS E-News
The next deadline for copy for BACS E-News is
1 December 2012
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Crediting Canada:
Canada as an Economic World Leader?
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
BACS 38th Annual Conference
Canada House London / Eccles Centre for American Studies
4-5 April 2013
Keynote speakers include: Marcelin Joanis, Université de Sherbrooke, and Rosemary Chapman, University of Nottingham
The conference will take place in London over three days beginning with an opening evening reception and keynote address at the refurbished Canada House on Trafalgar Square. The second day will feature additional keynotes and panels related to the conference themes at Canada House. The final day of the conference will be held at the Eccles Centre of the British Library with panels related to the conference themes or to the wider field of Canadian studies.
Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2012
Full call for papers
BACS Literature Group call for papers
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Women's Writing and Filmmaking
in Quebec
CALL FOR PAPERS
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing
Centre for Quebec and French-Canadian Studies
An International Conference, 17-18 May 2013
Senate House, University of London
Keynote speakers: Mireille Dansereau (filmmaker), Martine Delvaux (UQAM), Catherine Mavrikakis (Université de Montréal).
The rich corpus of cinematic and literary texts produced by women in Quebec generates a myriad of intellectual and research questions including: relationships among gender, feminism, national identity and nationalism; positions with regard to both Anglo-American and French feminist thought; histories and spaces; literary and popular fiction; the importance and influence of documentary; lesbian and other queer texts; languages and hybridities in 'exophonic', immigrant and indigenous writing. This international conference will bring together academics and practitioners to reflect on these and other issues, and to promote the importance and relevance of Quebec with regard to the twin fields of women's writing and filmmaking. The languages of the conference will be English and French.
Please send your proposals for papers (of no more than 500 words) to: william.marshall@sas.ac.uk and gill.rye@sas.ac.uk by 15 December 2012.
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Straddling Boundaries: Hemispherism, Cultural Identity, and Indigeneity
CALL FOR PAPERS
The keynote speakers for this conference will be Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and Guillermo Verdecchia. Deadline: 30 November 2012
Where border studies in North America has hitherto focused primarily on US engagement with Mexico to the south, the CCUSB network seeks to shift border discussion North to the 49th parallel, and to investigate the representation of the border in both American and Canadian culture and cultural production.
The Culture and the Canada-US Border (CCUSB) network invites proposals for 20 minute papers, or full panels, for its inaugural conference to be held at Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, from 24th-26th May 2013.
Full call for papers and details.
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Open Research Seminar
Centre of Canadian Studies
University of Edinburgh
Thursday, 29th November 2012 at 16.00-17.30
Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Edinburgh
Bill Marshall (University of Stirling)
Quebec Cinema and the Other: Monsieur Lazhar and Cafe de Flore (2011)
In the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum, it is interesting to consider the similarities but also profound differences with regard to Quebec, which has held two such consultations in the past. Whereas Scotland has what we might describe as a 'devolved' cinema, Quebec, partly because of its linguistic distinctiveness and also extensive governmental support, possesses a national - not (usually) nationalist - cinema, in which the plural facets of its identity/ies are played out and dramatised in often complex ways, with differing emphases. The two films to be discussed today - released in the UK in cinemas and on DVD in 2012 - give a flavour of the questions, including the relation to the immigrant or French 'Other', raised by Quebec national cinema. Monsieur Lazhar, directed by Philippe Falardeau and nominated for
the Best Foreign Film Oscar, portrays an Algerian immigrant in Montreal who passes himself off as a supply teacher. Most of the film takes places in the classroom, and can be usefully compared to the French film Entre les murs/The Class (Cantet, 2008). Cafe de flore, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, is an ambitious and complex film which plays across two places and times - contemporary Montreal and the France of 1969 - to establish the interlinked identities and destines of its seemingly unconnected protagonists.
Please note that the start time is 16.00 and not at the normal time of 16.30.
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Visiting Scholars Programme
Edinburgh Centre of Canadian Studies
Applications are invited for the non-stipendary Visiting Scholars Programme in the Centre of Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Applications are welcome from scholars working on any aspect of the study of Canada. In 2013-14 the Centre is particularly interested in welcoming scholars whose academic interests address questions of Indigeneity, comparisons between Quebec and Scotland, or link directly with specific research expertise of academic staff and graduate researchers in the Centre of Canadian Studies. Scholars with research proposals that may lead to international research collaboration with academic staff at Edinburgh, including new research funding initiatives, are particularly welcome to apply.
Visiting Scholar positions are available for periods between 1-12 months. Office space, library and IT facilities will be provided.
Further information.
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