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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Where is Here Now?
Canadian Literary Study in the 21st Century
The British Association for Canadian Studies Literature Group is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a symposium on 12th September 2011 at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British library. This one-day symposium will provide an opportunity for emerging and established scholars to situate developments and innovations in current Canadian literary studies in the UK and beyond.
News
The symposium has a dedicated website where the full programme can be found, along with details of presenters, papers etc.
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The Co-convenors of the Literature Group, to whom enquiries should be addressed, are
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The Literature Group was established in 1984 to provide a focus for those with a particular interest in Canadian literature.
In 2005 the Literature Group sponsored the participation of storyteller Louise Profit-LeBlanc at Evolving Solidarities, Birkbeck, February 2005 and, in May, then convenor Danielle Fuller (Birmingham) won the Gabrielle Roy Prize (Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures) for Writing the Everyday: Women’s Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada.
Also in 2005, Danielle Fuller (Birmingham) & DeNel Rehberg Sedo (Mount Saint Vincent) were successful in their AHRC bid for the ‘Beyond the Book’ project, a collaborative, transnational and interdisciplinary study of mass reading events and contemporary cultures of reading in the UK, USA and Canada.
The newsletter of the BACS Literature Group CanText has been published regularly since 1998, normally twice a year with eight pages of news, reviews, reports and discussion. Issues have included an appreciation of the writing of Carol Shields by Linda Knowles (Volume 6, Issue 1, October 2003). Other items in the newsletter include information about forthcoming conferences, notes about Canadian Studies sites on the internet, reviews, lists of recent publications, and announcements of forthcoming events involving Canadian writers. CanText is also a medium for discussion of issues relevant to the Literature Group and a source of information about funding for post-graduate students to attend conferences and to visit Canada.
The Literature Group now be found on Facebook .
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