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Overview: Occurring at a pivotal time for the environment of our planet, the International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference draws international attention to the Polar Regions, global change, and related environmental, social and economic issues. From Knowledge to Action will bring together over 2,000 Arctic and Antarctic researchers, policy- and decision-makers, and a broad range of interested parties from academia, industry, non-government, education and circumpolar communities including indigenous peoples. The IPY 2012 Conference will contribute to the translation of new polar scientific findings into an evidence-based agenda for action that will influence global decisions, policies and outcomes over the coming years.
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24-25 May 2012
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Call for Papers
From
the outset of the Seven Years’ War in 1756 to the eve of the Great War,
the spaces and places, as well as the peoples and predicaments of life
in northern North America changed dramatically. In recent years,
students of history, both in Canada and across the world, have been
repeatedly urged to consider local and national histories within in a
global, international, or comparative frame. The L. R. Wilson Institute
for Canadian History at McMaster University, in association with the
Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University, invite historians of
18th and 19th century British North America/Canada to submit paper
proposals for a two day workshop entitled, “British North America’s
Global Age,” to be held the 24 and 25 May 2012 at McMaster University in
Hamilton, Ontario.
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SUSTAINING CANADA: Past, Present and Future Environments
BACS 37th Annual Conference
Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
2–4 April 2012
The British Association for Canadian Studies’ Literature Group is pleased to issue the following Call for Papers for the 2012 BACS conference. We encourage contributions on any facet of the topic of Sustaining Canada in relation to Canadian literary and cultural study. Proposals for 20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, would be particularly welcome in the following areas:
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Ecocriticism in a Canadian context
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Narratives and/or poetics of environmentalism and activism
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Indigenous literature and culture
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Regional literature and culture
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Border studies
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Urban studies
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Landscape
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Representations of animals in Canadian culture
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Settler-invader narratives
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Travel literature
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The impact of literature and culture upon the environment
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Canadian culture in relation to different kinds of ‘environment’, e.g. domestic environment, national/international environment, linguistic environments, publishing or production contexts, etc.
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Sustaining Canadian culture, materially and/or ideologically
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Sustaining the culture of specific communities in Canada
Enquiries and proposals to:
Jodie Robson, BACS Administrator
Email:
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Website: http://sites.google.com/a/canadian-studies.org/bacs2012
Proposals (panel and individual) and deadline:
Email abstract(s) of 200–300 words and brief CV (please do not exceed one page) which must include your title, institutional affiliation, email and mailing address by 20 November 2011. 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.
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ICCS Summary of Activities May 24 to 28, 2011
MEETING OF THE ICCS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
On May 24-25, 2011 the Executive Committee of the International Council
for Canadian Studies met to discuss the Board’s main orientations.
Present at the meeting were Council President Klaus-Dieter Ertler,
President Elect Patrick James, Secretary Susan Hodgett,
Treasurer Stewart Gill, Executive Director Cristina Frias and
Administrative Coordinator Lise Nichol.
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BACS offers warmest congratulations to Coral Ann Howells who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada has elected our very own Coral Ann Howells as a Foreign Fellow. BACS offers Coral our warmest congratulations on this recognition of her outstanding scholarship and contribution to the study of Canada. Coral, who is Professor Emerita of the University of Reading and Senior Research Fellow of the University of London, and a former President of the British Association of Canadian Studies, is the first member of BACS to have received this accolade since Wreford Watson (the founding President of BACS in 1975). Coral's induction will take place in Ottawa on 27 November.
The citation reads: "Coral Ann Howells is the foremost scholar of Canadian literature in Europe. Her publications and teaching, particularly in the field of contemporary English-Canadian women's writing, have inspired several generations of young scholars worldwide. Her special interest is in the writing of Margaret Atwood, and most recently she has co-edited with Eva-Marie Kröller The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature" (which is reviewed by Faye Hammill in Vol 23.2 of BJCS just published).
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada is not often given to non-Canadian nationals. This year, there are just three out of a total of 80 new Fellows, and Coral is the only one in the Arts & Humanities. Her election is therefore a mark of special distinction. It also reflects a recognition at the highest academic level in Canada of the work done by foreign Canadianists.
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