CfP: Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Campus Germersheim, Germany
July 17-19, 2014

Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim

Call for Papers

Geological in origin, the term ‘Pacific Rim’ refers to a zone of high tectonic stresses, of seismic and volcanic energy, along the margins of the Pacific Ocean, thus conceptually tying together the Americas, the islands of the South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand as well as Southeast and Northeast Asia. While in use in other scientific and scholarly fields since the mid-1920s, the Pacific Rim gained wider currency in the 1970s, when the political and economic situation of the United States necessitated a strategic reorientation in terms of spatial imaginaries and, concomitantly, the coinage of a new transnational discourse. For about two decades, the idea of the Pacific Rim had a huge impact on politics, in the realm of business and trade, in the social sciences, and in environmental discussions. Although it lost relevance in those areas at the end of the 1980s, the Pacific Rim, which unifies many nation-states and linguistically and culturally disparate societies, has become a useful, albeit underdeveloped concept in cultural studies. With its logic of linkage along borders, it presents a viable alternative to the much more widely spread idea of center and periphery.

This international conference will provide a platform for exchange among experts from various disciplines including geography, history, ethnography, sociology, political science, economics, and indigenous studies as well as literary and cultural studies. Starting from the dynamically rich metaphor of ‘shifting grounds,’ the aim of the conference is, on the one hand, to investigate the concept of the Pacific Rim theoretically in the context of spatial reconfigurations and with reference to ideas of translation, amalgamation or globalization, and, on the other hand, to historicize and concretize the Pacific Rim via empirical case studies.

Topics to be addressed in 20-minute papers may include the impact of geographical exploration from James Cook onwards; geopolitical interests in the Pacific Rim; shifting power relations in local, regional, and global interactions; migration and transnational social networks; cities or regions as cultural hubs; trans-Pacific flows of knowledge; material objects and their social lives; representations of the Pacific Rim and its cultures in maps, literature, and other media; adaptation and cultural hybridization; cultural signifiers on the move, and changing conceptions of the Pacific Rim.

We welcome abstracts of 500 words and a short CV by July 15, 2013.

Contact Information:

Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst
Abteilung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophonie
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
An der Hochschule 2
D-76726 Germersheim
E-mail: ernstj@uni-mainz.de

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Glaser
Seminar für Englische Philologie
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3
D-37073 Göttingen
E-mail: Brigitte.Glaser@phil.uni-goettingen.de

APPEL DE CANDIDATURES:
Professeure ou professeur en littérature anglaise

APPEL DE CANDIDATURES Professeure ou professeur en littérature anglaise

(Poste régulier menant à la permanence)

Profil du poste :

  • Pouvoir enseigner au niveau du premier cycle dans les domaines de la littérature britannique, canadienne et étatsunienne;
  • Participer activement à la vie universitaire en milieu minoritaire;
  • Maintenir un programme de recherche actif.

Exigences :

  • Doctorat (Ph.D.) en littératures d’expression anglaise (complété ou sur le point de l’être);
  • Expérience en enseignement universitaire serait un atout;
  • Expérience en recherche serait un atout;
  • Capacité à travailler en équipe;
  • Excellente maîtrise de l’anglais et bonne connaissance du français.

Entrée en fonction : 1er août 2013

Rémunération : selon la convention collective

 

Veuillez faire parvenir votre curriculum vitae et demander à trois répondants de faire parvenir une lettre de recommandation au plus tard le 26 avril 2013 à :

 

André Samson, doyen Faculté des arts et Faculté des sciences Université de Saint-Boniface 200, avenue de la Cathédrale Winnipeg (Manitoba) R2H 0H7 Téléphone : 204-233-0210 Télécopieur : 204-233-0217 asamson@ustboniface.ca www.ustboniface.ca

L’USB souscrit au principe de l’équité en matière d’emploi et encourage la candidature de toute personne qualifiée, femme ou homme, y compris les Autochtones, les personnes handicapées et les membres des minorités visibles. Conformément aux exigences prescrites en matière d’immigration au Canada, toutes les personnes qualifiées sont invitées à postuler; la priorité est toutefois accordée aux personnes ayant la citoyenneté canadienne ou la résidence permanente.

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CfP: Le Canada : une culture de métissage / Transcultural Canada

Le Canada : une culture de métissage / Transcultural Canada

Colloque international / 24 – 25 octobre 2013

Université de Saint-Boniface / Winnipeg

(English text follows)

Le métissage est un concept polysémique qui occupe un très grand champ d’applications dans l’analyse des sociétés contemporaines, surtout celles – comme le Canada – qui sont caractérisées par l’hétérogénéité ethnique et culturelle. Malgré la continuité manifeste de cette hétérogénéité dans l’histoire du Canada, le concept de métissage n’a pas été toujours utilisé, ou même accepté, dans le projet de décrire et de comprendre l’histoire du Canada ou de théoriser la trajectoire de son développement. Récemment, l’utilité du concept en tant qu’outil de description historique et d’analyse contemporaine a été reconnue. Le colloque international « Le Canada : une culture de métissage / Transcultural Canada » vise à contribuer à une compréhension plus nuancée du rôle de la culture métisse et de la pertinence du concept de métissage pour analyser la situation sociohistorique et socioculturelle du Canada.

Dans le cadre du colloque proposé, le concept de métissage renvoie à deux principaux usages dans le contexte canadien : plus spécifiquement, il fait référence aux communautés ethniques  – les Métis –  nées du contact entre Autochtones et Euro-Canadiens et, plus généralement, il désigne  la condition culturelle d’hybridité ou d’interculturalité qui engendre de nouveaux éléments culturels.

Dans la tentative d’explorer davantage la présence historique et contemporaine de la culture métisse et du métissage au Canada, les organisateurs du colloque sollicitent des communications issues de diverses disciplines s’intéressant à la question du métissage. Les sujets qui pourraient être abordés dans le cadre du colloque sont notamment :

  • une réévaluation de l’influence historique de la culture métisse et/ou de la culture de métissage dans la formation sociale, culturelle et politique du Canada;
  • la contribution des Métis et/ou de la culture du métissage dans la formation identitaire contemporaine du Canada;
  • une analyse des œuvres culturelles exprimant un point de vue métis  ou de métissage;
  • une discussion théorique sur le métissage comme expression d’altérité;
  • les expressions culturelles et artistiques « métissées »;
  • métissage / Métis et culture populaire;
  • les manifestations linguistiques du métissage;
  • les Métis et le métissage en tant qu’initiateurs du changement social, culturel et politique au Canada.

Les propositions de 250 mots (pour des communications de 20 minutes en français ou en anglais) sont à envoyer à l'adressepdmorris@ustboniface.ca au plus tard le 6 mai 2013. Veuillez y inclure vos nom et prénom, votre adresse complète et votre affiliation.

 

Le Canada : une culture de métissage / Transcultural Canada

International Conference / October 24 – 25, 2013

Université de Saint-Boniface / Winnipeg

Transculturality is a term with varied meanings and is associated with a range of related concepts, including métissage. The term enjoys wide application in the analysis of contemporary societies, particularly those—like Canada—that are characterised by a high degree of ethnic and cultural diversity. Despite its presence as a defining feature of Canada’s historical development, transculturality/métissage has not always been utilised, or even accepted, as a concept of value for describing and understanding the history of Canada or for theorising the likely trajectory of the country’s future. More recently, however, the value of the concept in terms of historical description and contemporary cultural analysis is being re-evaluated. The international conference “Le Canada: une culture de métissage / Transcultural Canada” is intended to contribute towards a more nuanced understanding of the place of the Métis and of Métis culture within Canada and the pertinence of métissage as a concept of value in the socio-historical and socio-cultural analysis of Canada

In the context of the present conference, the concept of transculturality / métissage will be used according to two primary usages in Canada: specifically, in reference to the ethnic community – the Métis – which emerged from contact between First Nations Peoples and Euro-Canadians and, more generally, in reference to the general cultural condition of hybridity or of transculturalism which lead to the creation of new cultural formations.

In the effort to further explore the historical and contemporary presence of the Métis and of transculturality in Canada, the organisers of this conference are soliciting papers representative of a multitude of scholarly disciplines and approaches. Among the various topics open to discussion are:

  • a re-evaluation of the historical influence of the Métis and/or of transculturality in the social, cultural and political development of Canada;
  • the contribution of the Métis and/or transculturality in the formation of contemporary Canadian identity;
  • an analysis of examples of cultural expression that articulate a transcultural or Métis perspective;
  • theoretical discussion of the importance and limits of transculturality as an expression of alterity;
  • popular culture and transculturality / métissage;
  • linguistic manifestations of transculturality / métissage;
  • the Métis and the culture of métissage as initiators of social, cultural and political change in Canada.

Potential participants are requested to submit an abstract of 250 words (for presentations of 20 minutes in French or English) at the following address pdmorris@ustboniface.ca before May 6, 2013. In your abstract, please include your full name, contact information and affiliation.

2 positions announcement

The Department of Languages at Lakehead University (Thunder Bay Campus) is seeking applicants for two nine-month positions at the rank of Assistant Professor in Quebec Literature and in Contemporary French Literature (20th-21st centuries) commencing August 1, 2013. The successful applicants will have a completed or nearly completed PhD in the area required by the position. Preferred candidates should have experience and excellence in teaching French and expertise in new technologies applied to Second Language learning. Candidates should also have an active research program. The successful candidates will also be expected to contribute to administrative duties within the university.

Please send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, the names and addresses of three referees, and supporting documents such as teaching evaluations and samples of published work to:

Dr. Beatrice Vernier-Larochette, Chair, Department of Languages Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road Thunder Bay, ON, P7B 5E1, Canada Email: bvernier@lakeheadu.ca

807 343 8620

Applications should be submitted both in hard copy and pdf.

The deadline for the submission of applications is March 15, 2013.

A completed Confirmation of Immigration/Citizenship Status should accompany your package. This form is available on our website athttp://hr.lakeheadu.ca/pdf/immig.pdf

Lakehead University is an equal opportunity employer.

"Papers, Please":
Knowledge at the Borders of Disciplinarity

Graduate Student Conference Friday, April 26 & Saturday, April 27, 2013

Graduate Program in Humanities, York University, Toronto, Ontario

Our work in the Humanities brings us into contact with implicit and explicit bodies of knowledge, each of which has its own history, limitations and boundaries. We would like to consider the relationship between knowledge and the (disciplinary) context in which it is produced and to explore the limits, boundaries and possibilities of academic research—research which increasingly necessitates moving between disciplines, whether to forge connections or drive more rigorous distinctions between them. Consider, for example, the overlapping of philosophy and neuroscience (Slavoj Žižek, Thomas Metzinger, Antonio Damasio, Daniel Dennett); philosophy and neurobiology (Catherine Malibou); philosophy, mathematics, and social theory (Alain Badiou); linguistics and psychology (Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Roman Jakobson); ethnography and linguistics (Claude Lévi-Strauss); postcolonial studies (Edward Said, Arjun Appadurai, Bill Ashcroft); anthropology and history (Michel Foucault), etc. The major questions that guide this inquiry include: what does it mean to work inside and outside an academic discipline?  How do their assumptions inform and limit our subjects of research, and to what extent do research subjects themselves define the parameters according to which they are studied?

Topics and questions may include (but are not limited to):

• The cosmopolitan discipline: is the Humanities truly a cosmopolitan discipline, and if so how did it come to be that way?

• Broken telephone: what is gained or lost in the inevitable translation that takes place as ideas cross disciplinary boundaries?

• Making the humanities: what constitutes the human as an object of study, and how does it come to be known and/or shaped through (inter)disciplinary research and policies?

• Embodied knowledge, Bodies of Knowledge: the relationship between the observer and the observed; the influence of our own limitations, boundaries, and experiences on knowledge production and consumption.

• Disciplining the disciplines: what rogue knowledge crosses borders without permission, and how do we track and discuss the migrations and translations that happen in this world? What are the written or unwritten rules which regulate the production and exchange of knowledge within disciplines?

• Thinking outside the disciplinary box: how do interdisciplinary approaches differ from transdisciplinary approaches? What assumptions does interdisciplinary scholarship make about the nature of knowledge?

• Charting the discipline: how was disciplinarity constituted and shaped historically, and how does this history inform the subjects we study today?

• Visible and invisible boundaries in the age of the Internet: does the high-speed transfer of digital information necessitate new ways of thinking about disciplinarity?

• Inopportune knowledge: Freud found his explorations into sexuality met with considerable vitriol; Marx’s critique of Capitalism is considered by some as passé; An aged Galileo was forced to recant his findings. What does this mean for knowledge? What is the tension at work here and what are its implications?

• Boundaries and Creativity: A free play of ideas? Teaching and transmitting knowledge through learning activities; the “classroom” and the so-called “real world”; Exploring new configurations; knowledge of the bricoleur.

Keynote Speakers:

1)    Prof. Nalini Persram, Humanities, York University, Toronto

2)    Prof. Tilottama Rajan, Centre for Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario

The Conference Committee invites submissions of 250-350 word abstracts to paperspleaseconference@gmail.com by March 4, 2013.  Submissions in English and French are welcome.  Abstracts may be in Word or PDF format and should include, along with the abstract, a proposed title, the author’s name, affiliation, email address, and a short biographical statement (max. 50 words).  Contributors should anticipate giving a 20-min. presentation.

CfP: Virgin Envy: Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Virginity

Virgin Envy: Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Virginity

Eds. Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos, and Adriana Spahr

Contemporary culture has seen a renewed interest in virgins, from Bella Swan and Edward Cullen to Anastasia Steele to Steve Carrell’s infamous 40-old-virgin to the rise of Purity Clubs. How do we understand these discussions and representations of virginity? Do these texts “re-invent” virginity? Or, do these texts merely repeat “standard” treatments of virginity? This edited volume aims to work through the poetics and politics of virginity in narrative, poetry, cinema, and popular culture.

This volume treats virginity as an area of theoretical, intellectual, and cultural concern in modern texts. The goal is to position virginity as an interdisciplinary matter that must be studied from the widest possible range of perspectives. The editors believe that any study of virginity demands and interdisciplinary and/or intercultural perspective precisely because it is inculcated by so many discourses: religious, cultural, psychological, sociological, anthropology, ethnographic, philosophical, etc. The volume will ideally include essays from the humanities and social sciences, but the editors would welcome papers from outside of the humanities and social sciences. We welcome papers that recognize the complexity and diversity of virginity. We are especially interested in papers that move beyond normative definitions and understandings of virginity:

  • Celebrity Culture and Virginity
  • Queer Virginities (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, etc.)
  • Male virginities
  • Defining virginity lost (and found)
  • Hymenoplasty, re-virginization, vaginal rejuvenization, medical interventions
  • Cross-cultural analyses of virginity
  • Psychoanalytic, Psychological, Sociological, Philosophical Approaches and the study of Virginity
  • Virginity in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
  • Virginity and Identity, Identifying as Virgin, Epistemology of the Virgin’s Closet
  • The commodification of virginity, virginity auctions, virginity pornography
  • Virginity and confession, religious contexts, psychotherapeutic contexts
  • Virginity and Romance
  • Purity Clubs, Abstinence, and the Silver Ring Thing
  • Please send abstracts (500 words, including proposed bibliography) and a brief CV  (1-2 pages) by March 1, 2013 to csantos@brocku.ca <mailto:csantos@brocku.ca, allanj@brandonu.ca<mailto:allanj@brandonu.ca, spahra@macewan.ca <mailto:spahra@macewan.ca.

    Completed article-length papers (5,000 words, MLA Style) will be due by August 1, 2013. All papers will undergo a peer-review process before final acceptance and publication.

    Call for Papers: A matter of lifedeath

    Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    AN INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

    A matter of lifedeath

    October 1-4, 2014

    The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Andrea Carlino, Françoise Dastur, David Palumbo-Liu, H. Peter Steeves, Elisabeth Weber

    With immense pleasure and great anticipation, Mosaic invites writers from across the disciplines (architecture, film, history, medicine, biology, literature, philosophy, religion, sociology, etc.), to engage questions of life and death in ways that avoid reductive gestures and that exceed oppositions between animate and inanimate, human and animal, presence and absence, the humanities and the sciences, the living and the dead. We welcome provocative proposals for presentations that open to further research and discussion on themes that may include, but are not limited to, the following: finitude, heredity, inheritance, evolution, cyborgism, morphology, immunology, ontology, global warming, biodiversity, artificial life, memory, mourning, spectrality, mutation, transplantation, reproduction, repetition, machine, mechanicity, animality, the unconscious, Thanatos, genetics, code-script, message, biotechnology, bioethics, biopolitics, responsibility, affirmation, promise.

    Proposals should include: a title and an abstract of 450-500 words, and on a separate page, the author’s name, brief C.V., institutional affiliation, complete contact information, and email address.

    Graduate students presenting a paper at the conference may be eligible for a travel grant. Those intending to apply for a travel grant should enclose a covering letter with their abstract detailing anticipated travel costs for the conference.

    Deadline for submission of proposals: December 9, 2013.

    For information, see the Mosaic website at: www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic. A conference website will be available (and linked to the Mosaic website) by summer 2013.

    Electronic submissions preferred (Rich Text Format). Please direct enquiries and proposals to: mosaconf@ad.umanitoba.ca. Or, by regular mail, please send to:

     

    A matter of lifedeath conference         

    c/o Dr. Dawne McCance, Editor

    Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature

    208 Tier Building, University of Manitoba

    Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada

    To view this call as a pdf file, please click here: http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/mosaic/whatsnew/_resources/mosaic_lifedeath_conference_call.pdf

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    CfP: Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature

    Call for Papers Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature

    Issue 3.2 (Summer 2013) ‘Neither Here Nor There: The (Non-)Geographical Futures of Comparative Literature’

    This is a Joint Special Issue between Canadian Review of Comparative LiteraturePeking University Journal of Comparative Literature, and Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature.

    In this special issue, Inquire invites article submissions that consider the relationship between geography and the study of literature. As always, Inquire encourages intellectual discussions that approach the text from inside and outside, considering the movement of literary artifacts across geographical spaces as well as the significance of geographical movement within literature.

    This special issue also encourages a disciplinary focus.  Recent understandings of world literature have moved away from a focus on delineating canons of geographically-distributed great works, and towards describing a complex process of influence and reaction between increasingly-porous national and linguistic boundaries. As the discipline that most clearly claims responsibility for understanding literature beyond such boundaries, does Comparative Literature need to follow in the tracks of its object of study and somehow deterritorialize itself? What would such a project mean, in terms of new methodologies, objects of study, disciplinary self-conceptions, development of linguistic and literary competencies, and interdepartmental or international research collaborations?

    The following lines of inquiry are of particular interest:

    1)         Consequences for literature and theory: the ongoing construction of “world literature”; the future of postcolonialism; geographical boundaries and genre boundaries; the relationship of post-national and pre-national patterns of cultural exchange; &c.

    2)         Border crossing books: the spatiality of minority and exilic literatures; the post-spatial and the post-human; transnational transgender; the online persistence of virtual cultural geographies; literary dissemination and book migration; cultural diaspora; &c.

    3)         Liminality and the discipline: national Comparative Literature departments and intra-national research projects; the unequal institutional distribution of given discourses between departments or between nations; impacts for the discipline, its researchers and its students; academia in flux; Comparative Literature in flux; &c.

    4)         Precipices of methodology: theory and practice; linguistic limits to the “return of the aesthetic”; detteritorializing the comparative method; new frontiers of trans-disciplinary methodologies; comparing without borders; &c.

    5)         Literary representations of geography: city, space and the nation in literature (e.g., post-9/11 reactionary literature, WW1 or WW11 literature, propaganda materials, etc.); racial and ethnic experiences of space; writing in exile; power relations in different geographical scales; gender politics of space; the body as political and cultural space; geography in postcolonial and diasporic literatures; space and place; urban and rural spaces in modern literature; &c.

    Submission deadline: March 15, 2013

    Any graduate student of Peking University or University of Alberta who presented at the colloquium, held at the University of Alberta in April 2012, on the subject of how the discipline of comparative literature can continue to reorient itself in a world where the nature of human relationships to geography are in constant reconfiguration, is eligible to submit expanded versions of their presentation to this special issue. All articles must meet the guidelines for submission (see below).

    Submission Guidelines

    Inquire accepts article submissions by graduate students relevant to the current call for papers. All submissions must meet the following guidelines: original work not submitted elsewhere, complete articles in English, 5,000-7,000 words (including works cited list and endnotes), MLA formatting, 12-pt Times New Roman, double-spaced, justified. Please include a separate cover sheet with name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a short biography (max 60 words). Send inquiries and submissions to inquire@ualberta.ca. Please check our website for updates and information: http://inquire.streetmag.org/

     

    Call for Papers: TRANSNATIONAL CANONS: MARCH 15, 2013

    7th Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, University of AlbertaKeynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Jay, Loyola University Chicago

    The transnational turn in literary studies is a timely topic. As Paul Jay notes “[transnationalism] has reshaped literary and cultural studies,” “productively complicated the nationalist paradigm,” and “transformed the nature of the locations we study, and focused our attention on forms of cultural production that take place in the liminal spaces between real and imagined borders. This transformation has exploded under the forces of globalization.” For the 7th-Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta: Coordinates of Comparison we invite papers that explore and analyze the notion of Transnational Canons from a variety of interdisciplinary critical perspectives.

    Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

    Definitions of Transnationalism and Transnational Literatures Globalization and World Literature Transnational Feminism and Gender Studies Indigenous Narratives, Histories, and Politics Postcolonial and Hybridity Studies Exile, Emigré, and Diaspora Perspectives Translation Theory and Practice Politics-Economics of Publishing and Anthologizing Literature Transnational Pop Culture, Film, Media Digital Literature and Technology Religious Influences and Anxieties Book History as a Comparative Methodology

    Please submit abstracts of no more than 200 words by January 31th, 2013 to clconf@ualberta.caPlease check our website for updates and information: https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/clconf2013/.

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    Call for Papers: Culture & Canada-US Border Conference

      CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline Extended (January 15th 2013)

    http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/algoma.html

    Straddling Boundaries: Hemispherism, Cultural Identity, and Indigeneity

    Keynote Speakers: Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Guillermo Verdecchia 

    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.

    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.

    As part of a series of CCUSB events, this conference will intervene in familiar border discourses, which have expanded out of the social and political contexts of the US-Mexico border, while the Canadian border with the USA has tended to be overlooked—prior to 9.11 at least—as ‘passive’. Ultimately we seek to develop further border-specific conversations within Hemispheric and Transnational Studies, drawing attention to the ways in which cultural production at/on the Canada-US border both corroborates and unsettles that narrative of ‘passivity’, and highlights the nuances and exigencies of US-Canadian relations, as well as Canada’s unique place in the cultural history of the Americas.

    Algoma University is a small progressive university in Northern Ontario overlooking the Canada US border, providing an ideal location for the staging of this conference. The strategic location of the Twin Cities of Sault Canada and Sault Michigan on the St. Mary’s River is the site of a rich international history linked to border issues, including those surrounding indigeneity and the border, the cross-fertilization of cultural identity, and the culture and ‘architecture’ of post-9/11 security and surveillance. The Algoma campus is located on the site of a former Indian residential school, and now includes Anishinaabe programs through Shingwauk Education Trust. For the 2013 CCUSB conference we will have the option of accommodation on site so that participants can enjoy the campus. For further details, visit: http://www.algomau.ca

    We seek contributions that examine issues raised by the cultural implications of the Canada-US border in Canadian and/or American literature, television, cinema, visual art, music, and other cultural forms, as well as the significance of such cultural forms within other discourses—truth and reconciliation, health policy, security, foreign policy, and so on. We particularly encourage papers focusing on the following issues, though submissions on any relevant area of interest are welcome:

    • Indigeneity and the border(lands)
    • migration and immigration
    • cultural cross-fertilization
    • militarization of the border
    • cultures and architectures of surveillance
    • racialisation along the border
    • américanité and the Québec-US border
    • Canada and hemispheric America
    • language and regionalism
    • the culture of leisure on and across the border

    Please send proposals for 20-minute papers and a brief CV to CCUSBorder@kent.ac.uk by January 15 2013. Panel proposals of 3 papers (for a 90 minute slot) should include paper proposals plus a brief (100 words) summary of the panel’s theme.

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    The CCUSB network, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, grew out of a conference held at the University of Kent, UK, in 2009. Its core members are located at the Universities of Kent and Nottingham, SUNY Buffalo, Algoma, Mt. Royal (Calgary), and Royal Roads (Victoria). Participation in the network’s activities does not require membership. For further details visit: http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb

    Catherine Barter Research Network Administrator | "Culture and the Canada-US Border"

    School of English, University of Kent, CT2 7NX 

    Email: C.J.Barter@kent.ac.uk

    Working Hours: Monday and Tuesday, 9am-5pm

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    CfP: Interface between Multiculturalism and Language Education in Canada

     

    CALL FOR PAPERS for an edited collection entitled

    Interface between Multiculturalism and Language Education in Canada

    Edited by Samira ElAtia & Sheena Wilson (University of Alberta)

    Deadline for Abstracts: January 15th, 2013

    Deadline for Full Submission: August 15th, 2013

     

    This collection will address both issues of language education and issues of multicultural education within the Canadian context, with an aim to presenting a comprehensive picture and in-depth analyses of Canadian multicultural educational model(s).

    Given that language is the grounding source of all cultures, it can be argued that Canadian language and cultural policies, in their most positive incarnations, have resulted first in bilingual education programs post-1969, and have culminated in more recent years in the possibility for Canadian students to access a multilingual education, accompanied by multicultural education curricula. Nevertheless, it must be taken into consideration that the political landscape of Canada has increasingly shifted to the right since the beginning of the new millennium, particularly after the election of the minority Harper government (in 2006), and it continues to shift still further to the right under the majority Harper government (re-elected in 2010).  As Harper's ministers pick and choose which conservative ethno-cultural organizations to support, financially or otherwise, in a short-term bid to amass votes, the government simultaneously erodes multiculturalism at the infrastructural and policy levels in ways that may place limitations on language education and immigration policies and which may have the potential to undermine the longer-term aspirations of ethno-cultural communities.

    Therefore, the articles in this book will collectively address the impacts of the Official Languages Act and the Multiculturalism Policy and Act on Canadian education systems across the provinces and territories over the last 40-plus, as well as the impacts of the more recent rise of conservativism in Canadian politics, in terms of both the expectations for and the practical implementation of multilingual and multicultural educational mandates. 

    Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas of research:

    1. How does legislation affect educational policy?

    2. How are the implementations of legislations realized differently across Canada?  In other words, how is multiculturalism and multilingualism implemented in Canadian classrooms, across the territories and provinces, in response to constantly transforming and diversely understood definitions of multiculturalism itself (as policy, ideology, social character etc.)?  

    a.  Is it implemented differently or similarly in English versus French school systems/boards?

    b.  Is it understood similarly or differently by the diverse language and ethno-cultural groups across the country (in school, universities, community organization, etc)?

    3. How do other related issues concerning race, class, religion and gender factor into language and cultural education in Canada at the elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels?  

    4. How do these diverse cultural and linguistic Canadian-educational cultures/backgrounds encounter one another at the post-secondary level? 

    5. How do these Canadian educational-cultures function (or not) in Canadian university settings, alongside the educational-cultural expectations of incoming foreign students with differing linguistic and cultural backgrounds? 

    6. What are the broader social-cultural and political implications for multilingual and multicultural conceptions of Canada as students and citizens educated post-1969 move into the work-force? 

     

    Submission Guidelines

    We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers from contributors working on language education and cultural education in any number of languages and cultures in Canada, from either academics working across the disciplines or beyond (educators, lawyers and legal experts, etc.).  The working language of the collection will be English.

    Deadline for Abstracts: February 1st, 2013

    Content: 250-400 words abstract with title, author’s name & contact info

    Please include a short bio of 50 words, including affiliation. 

    Will be notified about whether abstract has been tentatively accepted (with an invitation to submit a full draft) by March 30th, 2013

    Final Submission due September 15, 2013.

    Final acceptance will be conditional until final peer review assessments are completed.

    Please send proposals to Dr. Samira ElAtia: selatia@ualberta.ca AND Dr. Sheena Wilson: sheena.wilson@ualberta.ca.  Inquiries may be sent to the same email addresses. 

     

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    Imaginaire contemporain : la banlieue

    Colloque international

    Figura, le Centre de recherche sur le texte et l’imaginaire, UQAM
    http://figura.uqam.ca/

    Observatoire de l’imaginaire contemporain
    http://oic.uqam.ca/

    Université du Québec à Montréal
    Montréal, 29-30 avril 2013

    La banlieue désigne d’abord et avant tout un phénomène d’urbanisation qui a pris de multiples formes en Occident après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. En Amérique du Nord, alors qu’elle avale progressivement des kilomètres de territoire, la banlieue est devenue une figure majeure de l’imaginaire social contemporain.

    Depuis Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), le cinéma a fait de la banlieue plus qu’un décor, mais un véritable filtre à travers lequel filmer la société nord-américaine, ses défaillances, ses déceptions, ses faux-semblants. Edward Scissorhands (1990) et The Truman Show (1998) se sont inscrits dans cette veine. En littérature, de Revolutionary Road (1961) à The Virgin Suicides (1993), en passant par The Fire-Dwellers (1969) et The Stepford Wives (1972), que ce soit sur un ton tragique ou satirique, les écrivains ont fait éclaté les baies vitrées des bungalows pour révéler la part sombre d’existences supposément sans histoires. À la télévision, Mad Men (2007- ), Desperate Housewives (2004-2012) et Weeds (2005-2012), entre autres, ont remis ces préoccupations au goût du jour. Au Québec, de Dée (2002) à Le ciel de Bay City (2008), l’écriture de la banlieue s’inscrit dans un mouvement de retour sur le passé récent pour mieux exposer les racines du mal nord-américain. Même si elle est parfois empreinte de nostalgie, la représentation du mode de vie banlieusard est le plus souvent marquée par la violence, une violence retenue et insidieuse. Malgré tout ce qu’on peut en dire, l’imaginaire de la banlieue reste difficile à circonscrire, « too wide to ford, to shallow to summarize, too fluid to study », écrivait Gary Michael Dault en 2001.

    C’est pourtant à cette entreprise risquée que souhaite se consacrer ce colloque, en se penchant sur les représentations (littéraires, visuelles, discursives) de la banlieue nord-américaine depuis 1945. Évidemment, dans une perspective sociologique ou urbanistique, la banlieue est plutôt constituée de plusieurs banlieues. Pourtant, tant dans le discours social que dans la fiction, il existe une Banlieue au singulier, qui réfère à un mode de vie, une culture, orientée par des valeurs telles que la famille, la sécurité, la propreté, la vie privée, le conformisme, l'individualisme, le matérialisme, la mobilité sociale et physique.

    En même temps, et peut-être en réaction à cette axiologie fortement marquée, la banlieue est devenue le reflet des phobies et de l’insécurité nord-américaine, affirme Robert Beuka dans SuburbiaNation. L’imaginaire de la banlieue semble en effet cristalliser une inquiétude contemporaine : elle témoigne de nos préoccupations envers notre façon d’occuper le territoire et de penser notre rapport au monde, mais aussi envers ce que devient le sujet, dans un espace où la différence, la diversité, l’étrangeté sont aussi fortement réprimées, voire refoulées. L’espace suburbain devient, dans la fiction, le lieu du secret, du mensonge, du crime, de la trahison et de la fraude, comme s’il pressait d’exhiber tout ce que la norme n’arrive pas à contenir.

    Le rêve américain qu’incarne la banlieue n’est pas que matériel, il offre une contrepartie d’ordre métaphysique : accéder au lieu parfait, débarrasser de tout « autre ». Ce projet utopique n’est pas sans rappeler l’expérience de l’installation en Amérique : fuir la ville et toutes les menaces qu’elle représente, trouver un endroit paisible où élever sa famille, repartir à neuf, faire table-rase. Si la littérature, le cinéma, la télévision en Amérique du Nord se passionnent tant pour la banlieue, c’est peut-être qu'elle incarne à la fois les aspirations et les craintes qu'inspire l'American way of life.

    Différentes questions orienteront notre réflexion :

    - Qu’est-ce que l’imaginaire de la banlieue nous révèle du monde contemporain?

    - Au-delà de la critique sociale et de la satire, quels enjeux esthétiques, sociaux et politiques l’imaginaire de la banlieue implique-t-il?

    - La banlieue représenterait-elle la quintessence de l’expérience nord-américaine?

    - Peut-on définir un imaginaire de la banlieue proprement québécois? Quelles en seraient les œuvres marquantes? Les problématiques spécifiques?

    - Comment l'imaginaire de la banlieue qui se déploie dans l’autre moitié du monde anglo-saxon (le Royaume-Uni et l’Australie, en particulier) entre-t-il en dialogue avec la suburbia nord-américaine?

    Comité scientifique : Jean-François Chassay, Bertrand Gervais, Alice van der Klei, Marie Parent, Université du Québec à Montréal.

    Date de remise des propositions (300 mots) : 15 janvier 2013

    Nous acceptons les propositions en français et en anglais.

    Envoyer les propositions à :

    icimarieparent@gmail.com et à alice@labo-nt2.org 

    CfP: Congrès 2013 | Congress 2013

     

    CCLA Call for Papers: Congress 2013 

    From 2-4 June 2013, as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted by the University of Victoria, the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) explores the implications of what it means for comparatists to be “@ the edge.” Does the with-it use of the @ character in this year’s Congress theme signal for us that literature has been pushed 2 the edge by emergent textual and visual practices associated with the digital turn?  Do manifestations of convergent cultures that re-define the edges of textuality and visuality, genres and media invite radically new comparative perspectives, forms of engagement, and theoretical and methodological approaches? Or has the discipline of comparative literature already a tradition of exposing cultural edges, border zones and peripheries that necessitates an epistemology of comparison, juxtaposition and productive dialogue?
     
    Comparative papers on other topics are also welcome and will be collected into general sessions. Proposals for pre-arranged panels, roundtables or other formats are very welcome. Joint sessions with other organisations are as well, but they should be arranged as soon as possible.
     
    Please submit 250 – 300 word abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Program Chair Markus Reisenleitner (mrln@yorku.ca) by January 15, 2013.
     

    Appel de communications de l’ACLC: Congrès 2013

    L’association canadienne de littérature comparée (ACLC) explorera, au Congrès des Sciences Humaines organisé du 2 au 4 juin 2013 à l’Université de Victoria, ce que cela signifie pour des comparatistes d’être “@ la fine pointe.” Est-ce que l’usage de l’@ dans le thème du congrès de cette année signale pour nous que la littérature se doit maintenant d’incorporer les pratiques textuelles et visuelles émergentes du tournant digital? Est-ce que ces manifestations de cultures convergentes redéfinissant les bordures de la textualité et de la visualité, des genres et des médias, invitent de nouvelles perspectives comparatives, formes d’engagements et approches théoriques et méthodologiques? Ou la littérature comparée participe-t-elle déjà à une tradition exposant l’avant-garde culturelle, les zones frontières et les périphéries nécessitant une épistémologie de comparaison, de juxtaposition, et un dialogue enrichissant?
     
    Des contributions comparatistes sur d’autres thèmes sont aussi les bienvenus et seront agencées en sessions générales. Nous acceptons aussi, bien sûr, des propositions pour sessions pré-arrangées, tables rondes, et autres formats. C’est aussi le cas pour des sessions organisées en partenariat avec d’autres organisations, mais celles-ci devraient êtres envoyées le plus tôt possible.
     
    Veuillez soumettre des résumés de 250 à 300 mots pour des présentations de 20 minutes au président du programme, Markus Reisenleitner (mrln@yorku.ca), avant le 15 janvier 2013.
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    CFP: “Emerging Trends in Book History and Print Culture Studies” 2013 Graduate Conference and Workshop Series

     

    (La version française suit) CALL FOR PAPERS

    “Emerging Trends in Book History and Print Culture Studies”

    2013 Graduate Conference and Workshop Series March 21-22, 2013 – Sherbrooke (Revised dates) April 5-6, 2013 – Toronto

    The Book History and Print Culture (BHPC) collaborative program at the University of Toronto and Le Groupe de recherches et d'études sur le livre au Québec (GRÉLQ) at the Université de Sherbrooke (Qc) are inviting proposals from graduate students whose research pertains to Book History and Print Culture to join in a series of two-day conference and workshops. Aiming at identifying emerging trends in book history studies as well as providing a platform for exchange and networking, the series will bring together graduate researchers from universities across Canada.
    Over two instalments, one to be held predominantly in French at the Université de Sherbrooke and one to be held mainly in English at the University of Toronto, graduate researchers will explore what it means to study book history in Canada and attempt to identify emerging trends in the field. To support cross-discipline and cross-language collaboration, one panel in Sherbrooke will be held in English, and one panel in Toronto will be held in French.
    The organizing committee is interested in innovative book history research currently underway in
    Canadian institutions and pertaining to all subjects, periods, regions and stemming from all disciplines. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    research pertaining to previously unexplored corpora or that defies traditional ways of looking at well-known corpora;

    research looking at the authors and other agents related to book history and print culture;

    research that considers new ways to approach book history and considers the relationships between the book and society, the environment, and media, supported by and not limited to the methods of disciplines such as statistics, economics, psychology and other sciences;

    research considering the book and its current and future digital incarnations, the relationship between the book and other media;

    research pertaining to book history theory or that considers the relationship between the field of book history and other connected disciplines such as sociology of literature or cultural studies and

    research that focuses on topics that could affect the way book history is taught and researched in Canada like, for example, Canada’s changing copyright laws (proposed Bill C-11).

    Conference participants' papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Papers of
    Bibliographical Society of Canada.

    Opening addresses

    Toronto :
    Professor Alan Galey Faculty of Information BHPC
    University of Toronto
    Sherbrooke :
    Professor Josée Vincent
    Département des lettres et communications
    Co-director, GRÉLQ
    Co-director, Studies in Book Culture
    Université de Sherbrooke

    Closing addresses (Toronto and Sherbrooke)

    Professor Eli MacLaren
    Department of English, McGill University
    Editor, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

    Submitting a proposal

    Graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit research related to their thesis or dissertation projects. Proposals for panels are welcomed. Proposals may be submitted in English or in French. Abstracts will be reviewed by a Scientific Advisory board. Papers should be not have been previously published and are limited to 20 minutes. Proposals should be submitted to emergingtrendsbookhistory@gmail.com by October 30th, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15th, 2012.

    Proposals should contain the following:

    Student name and contact information, mail and email addresses and phone numbers;

    Level of studies, name of the University and Department with which the student is affiliated;

    If the student wishes, the name of the thesis supervisor as well as the thesis subject;

    Language(s) in which the paper will be presented (French, English, or both);

    Preferred presentation location (University of Toronto, Université de Sherbrooke or open to both);

    250 word proposition including research questions, corpus and methodology and

    A short biography (maximum 200 words in length) along with (if applicable) a list of publications.

    Conference Series Organizers

    Elizabeth Klaiber (U of T), Michaël Fortier (U de S), Eloïse Pontbriand (U de S), Matt Schneider (U of T), along with Ruth-Ellen St-Onge (U of T), Catherine Swartz (U of T).

    APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS

    Tendances émergentes en histoire du livre et de l’imprimé Journées d’études 2013

    Les 21 et 22 mars – Sherbrooke (Dates révisées) Les 5 et 6 avril – Toronto

    Le Groupe de recherches et d'études sur le livre au Québec (GRÉLQ) de l'Université de Sherbrooke et le Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture (BHPC) de l’Université de Toronto invitent les étudiant-e-s des cycles supérieurs dont les recherches portent sur l’histoire du livre et de l’imprimé
    à soumettre leur proposition de communication afin de participer à des journées d’études. Ces journées viseront à identifier les tendances émergentes dans la recherche en histoire du livre et de l’imprimé ainsi qu’à proposer une plateforme et un lieu d’échanges pour les jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs des universités canadiennes.
    L’événement se déroulera en deux temps : la première partie aura lieu principalement en français à l’Université de Sherbrooke et la seconde principalement en anglais, à l’Université de Toronto. Ce sera l’occasion pour les étudiant-e-s de s’interroger sur ce que signifie étudier l’histoire du livre, d’identifier des tendances émergentes dans les études en histoire du livre au Canada et de présenter les résultats de leurs recherches. Par ailleurs, dans la perspective d’une collaboration bilingue et interdisciplinaire, un atelier en anglais se tiendra à Sherbrooke et un atelier en français se tiendra à Toronto.
    Le comité organisateur s’intéresse aux approches novatrices dans la recherche en histoire de l’imprimé et de l’édition qui a cours au Canada et ce, quels que soient les sujets ou les cadres historiques, géographiques ou disciplinaires.
    À titre indicatif, voici quelques-unes des orientations privilégiées (liste non exhaustive) :

    les travaux portant sur des corpus peu étudiés ou qui remettent en question les lectures traditionnelles de corpus bien connus ;

    les travaux s’intéressant à l’auteur et aux autres agents impliqués dans les circuits du livre et de l’imprimé ;

    les travaux proposant de nouvelles approches de l’histoire du livre et de l’imprimé qui s’attachent aux liens entre le livre et la société, l’environnement ou les médias, en déployant notamment les méthodes issues de disciplines telles que les statistiques, l’économie, la psychologie et autres sciences ;

    les travaux considérant le livre sous ses formes présentes et futures, de même que la

    relation entre le livre et les autres médias ;

    les travaux portant sur la théorie de l’histoire du livre et de l’imprimé ou considérant l’histoire du livre dans une perspective interdisciplinaire (dans ses liens avec la sociologie de la littérature, avec les études culturelles, etc.) et

    les travaux s’intéressant à des sujets qui pourraient avoir une incidence sur l’enseignement et sur la recherche en histoire du livre au Canada (par exemple les changements apportés à la loi sur le droit d’auteur avec le projet de loi C-11).

    Les communicant-e-s seront invité-e-s à soumettre un article qui sera considéré pour un numéro spécial des Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada.

    Allocutions d’ouverture

    Toronto :
    Professor Alan Galey Faculty of Information BHPC
    University of Toronto
    Sherbrooke :
    Professor Josée Vincent
    Département des lettres et communications
    Co-director, GRÉLQ
    Co-director, Studies in Book Culture
    Université de Sherbrooke

    Conférencier d’honneur (Sherbrooke et Toronto)

    Eli MacLaren

    Département d’anglais, Université McGill
    Rédacteur en chef, Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada

    Soumettre une proposition de communication

    Les étudiant-e-s sont encouragé-e-s à soumettre des propositions de communication en lien avec leurs travaux de mémoire ou de thèse. Les propositions d’ateliers sont bienvenues. Un comité scientifique

    évaluera les propositions de communication, lesquelles pourront être rédigées en français ou en anglais. Les communications doivent être inédites et ne pas dépasser 20 minutes. Les propositions de communication devront être soumises à l’adresse emergingtrendsbookhistory@gmail.com avant le 30 octobre 2012. Les chercheuses et les chercheurs dont les propositions auront été retenues seront contactés avant le 15 décembre 2012.

    Les propositions de communication devraient contenir les informations suivantes :

    les coordonnées de l’étudiant-e : adresse postale et électronique, numéro de téléphone ;

    le niveau d’études, l’université et le département d’affiliation, et, si l’étudiant-e le souhaite, le nom de la directrice ou du directeur de mémoire ou de thèse, le sujet du mémoire ou de la thèse ;

    la langue de la communication (français, anglais ou bilingue) ;

    s’il y a lieu, l’endroit de préférence pour la présentation (Université de Sherbrooke, Université de Toronto ou sans préférence) ;

    la proposition de communication de 250 mots qui comprend la problématique, le corpus

    étudié et l’approche méthodologique et

    une notice biobibliographique (maximum 200 mots).

    Comité organisateur

    Elizabeth Klaiber (U de T), Michaël Fortier (U de S), Eloïse Pontbriand (U de S), Matt Schneider (U de T)
    avec Ruth-Ellen St-Onge (U de T), Catherine Swartz (U de T).

    New issue of Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature is now published

    The editorial team of Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature is pleased to announce the publication of Issue 2.2 (June 2012) 'Literary Violence' at http://inquire.streetmag.org/.

    'Literary Violence' features a range of contributions from emerging and established academics in Comparative Literature and the Arts, from Canada, the United States, Britain, Scotland, Estonia, Germany, Romania and New Zealand.

    The 'In Every Issue' section features:

    • 'State of the Discipline' by Dr. Marina Grishakova (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tartu, Estonia; General Coordinator of the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies)
    • 'CL History' by Dr. Christian Moser (Chair Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn, Germany; President of the German Comparative Literature Association)
    • 'U Views' by Dr. Stephen Turner and Dr. Sean Sturm (University of Auckland)
    • 'Media X' by Dr. Jenna Ng (Newton Trust/Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge)

    Following the 'Literary Violence' theme for this issue, articles and reviews by graduate students offer interdisciplinary and comparative analyses and discussions of interest to academics in Comparative Literature and the Arts.

    As always, the CL Hub section offers valuable insights and resources relevant to students, teachers and scholars of literature.

     

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    CfP: Inquire Issue 3.1 (Winter 2013) 'Literature and Identity'

    Issue 3.1 (Winter 2013) 'Literature and Identity'

    Inquire invites article submissions that consider the relationship between literature and identity.

    By focusing this issue on identity, Inquire seeks to provide a forum for the investigation of various dimensions of identity construction, the process of identity formation within different cultural and social contexts, and how the issue of identity and subjectivity is addressed in literary artifacts and cultural texts, local and global, past and present. 

    The following lines of inquiry are of particular interest:

    1) Cultural and political dimensions of identity and literature, e.g., conflicts between normative and non-normative lifestyles, negative depictions of non-normativity as a means of oppression, propaganda, hate literature, literature as a means to form identity, &c.

    2) Explorations of literary representations and analyses of identity formation processes, including but not limited to coming of age literature, aspects of identity-focused literary theory (queer studies, feminism, gender studies, &c.), literary representations of constructed identities, and the treatment of particular identities within literature, i.e., social, cultural or political representations of gender, sexuality, class, race, identity in flux, transgressive subjects, &c.

    3) Questioning the confines of literary identity, i.e., literature that challenges or transcends distinguishing boundaries that result from genre, taxonomy, language, modes and modalities of publication, literary traditions, academia, market trends, &c.

    Inquire encourages interdisciplinary and comparative research that emphasize downmarket forms, lesser-known authors and marginalized literatures.

    Submission deadline: 15 September 2012

    Submission Guidelines

    Inquire accepts article submissions by graduate students relevant to the current call for papers. All submissions must meet the following guidelines: original work not submitted elsewhere, complete articles in English, 5,000-7,000 words (including works cited list and endnotes), MLA formatting, 12-pt Times New Roman, double-spaced, justified. Please include a separate cover sheet with name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a short biography (max 60 words). Send inquiries and submissions to inquire@ualberta.ca.

    Peer Review

    Inquire responds to all inquiries and acknowledges all submissions within two weeks. Submissions accepted for review are read anonymously by two peer reviewers. The author receives two reviews, additional comments from the editor and an editorial decision. Inquire provides respectful, informed and constructive feedback to all authors regardless of the editorial decision. The review process begins immediately following the submission deadline and takes ~4-8 weeks. Publication follows approximately four months after the call for papers deadline. If you are interested in joining Inquire as a reader, write to inquire@ualberta.ca.

     

    CFP: Urban Identities

    2013 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention

    Boston, MA, March 21-24, 2013
     
    This panel proposes to examine the various ways in which marginalized subjects appropriate and / or adapt to the spatial practices of exclusion and marginalization in contemporary neo-liberal societies. The panel will question the identity claims and spatialized performances of marginalized subjects in the urban context, particularly in terms of class, race, and gender. Please send 300-500 word abstracts in either English or French and brief biographical statements by 15 September 2012 to Domenico.Beneventi@usherbrooke.ca

     

    Imaginations: Latest Issue

    The latest issue of Imaginations has just been published.  You can access it online at http://www.csj.ualberta.ca/imaginations/.

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    Imaginations

    Imaginations issue 3-1, Summer 2012
    Issue Editor | Daniel Laforest
     
    Guest Artist — Tanya Ury
    portfolio
    interview
    skype dialogue
     
    Special Dossier — Stealing the Image
     
    Michael Rodgers
    Relationships of Ownership: Art and Theft in Bob Dylan’s 1960s Trilogy
     
    Geneviève Cloutier
    Portraits d’un imaginaire de l’avant-garde : le Carré noir sur fond blanc de Kazimir
    Malevitch et ses réincarnations artistiques
     
    Antonio Viselli
    In Possession of a Stolen Weapon: From John Gay’s Macheath to Rubén Blades’
    Pedro Navaja
     
    Maria-Carolina Cambre
    Stealing or Steeling the Image? The failed branding of the Guerrillero Heroico image
    of Che Guevara
     
    General Contributions
     
    Christof Decker
    Trauma Narratives, Mixed Media, and the Meditation on the Invisible
     
    Susanne Kelley
    Perceptions of Jewish Female Bodies through Gustav Klimt and Peter Altenberg
     
    Review Essay
    Sarah McGaughey
    (E)merging Discourses: Architecture and Cultural Studies
     
    Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies
    Imaginations: Revue d’études interculturelles de l’image
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