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Contents
1. History Group conference - Call for papers
2. Images of National, Ethnic and Individual Identity in Canada, 25-27 October 2007
3. Questioning Identities: The Canadian Context, 17-20 May 2007
1. BEYOND VIMY RIDGE: WAR AND PEACE IN CANADIAN HISTORY
Call for papers
A one-day conference organised by the BACS History Group at Canada House
on Friday 13 July 2007, 10.30am-5.00pm.
Taking as its starting point the 90th anniversary of Vimy Ridge, the conference will explore the impact of war and peace on Canadian history and its relationship with Canada's assumed role as peacemaker and peacekeeper.
Papers (minimum 30 minutes) are invited on any aspect of the main theme of the conference, including the broad theme of war and peace and specific events and issues, eg the South African War, First and Second World Wars, Korea, Suez Crisis, Gulf Wars, Afghanistan, etc. Although the conference is sponsored by the History Group, papers and perspectives from other disciplines will be welcomed.
Registration will be 20, payable on the day (no charge for presenters). To propose a paper or to attend the conference please email Tony McCulloch, Head of History and American Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University (
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2. IMAGES OF NATIONAL, ETHNIC AND INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY IN CANADA
Masaryk University
Brno, Czech Republic
25-27 October 2007
First Announcement and Call for Papers
The Canadian Studies Centre at Masaryk University is pleased to announce a conference on Images of National, Ethnic and Individual Identity in Canada, to be held, in cooperation with the Embassy of Canada in the Czech Republic and the Association Gallica, from 25 to 27 October 2007 at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic).
Conference topic
Multicultural settings provide a good source of different materials and approaches for studying questions of identity. The individual be it as author, filmmaker, painter or philosopher is located at the axiological intersection where identity is created through the interaction of or contact between various ethnic, language, cultural and national identities. Images of the self enter into opposition to the image of the other. Social norms and their codes create stereotypes that may be confirmed, rejected or transformed through individual creativity.
The cultural space of Canada provides a diversity of possible interactions ranging from those between the Anglophone and Francophone spheres to those between these two cultural spheres and the identities of immigrants, aboriginal peoples and other socially marginalized groups. This may be seen very clearly in literature as well as in the fine arts and in the general cultural and social consciousnesses.
The primary aim of this conference is to sketch the development of identity in Canadian culture during the past half century in four fields: literature, film, the fine arts and historical discourse. Emphasis should be placed on the creative potential of the question of identity as a source of new approaches and experiments in scholarly research.
Languages: English, French
The conference registration form along with abstracts of papers (250 words) and a one-paragraph CV should be submitted by e-mail to the organizers by 31 March 2007.
Registration fee: 30 euros (to be paid upon arrival at the conference itself)
Reduced fees for members of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies and for students
3. QUESTIONING IDENTITIES: THE CANADIAN CONTEXT
Croatian-Canadian Academic Society
Croation Chapter of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies
Second International Conference in Canadian Studies
Rab, Croatia
17-20 May 2007
Call for papers
Be it as something passionately sought, staunchly defended, relentlessly promoted, or perennially questioned, identity as both a practical and theoretical concept has profoundly marked what we are accustomed to call the Canadian experience. Identity has also proved to be one of the central operative notions around which the interdisciplinary field of Canadian studies a network of mutually informing discourses attempting to capture the diversity of Canadian life as well as to produce and promote knowledge about Canada in general has structured itself. Yet identity is a contested and troubled concept too, defined by tensions between plurality and singularity, past and present, native and foreign, individual and community. The intention of this conference is to highlight some of these tensions and to study identities as both enabling and disabling notions. We encourage submissions that will look at identities as subjects and/or objects, both posing questions and being questioned, while adopting different theoretical and methodological approaches. The variety of Canadian and comparative contexts from literary and linguistic to cultural, historical, economic, legal and others should provide ample opportunity for sustained reflection on a topic that powerfully relates to our own moment in history and therefore continues to be important.
CONFERENCE SECTIONS
1. Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Studies: Anglophone
2. Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Studies: Francophone
3. Croatia and Canada: Legal Cultures and Legal Traditions as Part of National Identity
4. Economic Section: Identity and the Image of the State
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION
Abstracts of 100-200 words should be submitted by e-mail no later than 20 March 2007, indicating to which section the participant is applying. Abstracts and papers for the Francophone section should be in French, abstracts and papers for the remaining sections should be in English. Please send your abstract to both Ivan Lupic (
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) and Evaine Le Calv頉vicevic (
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) together with the registration form and a one-paragraph CV. Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes each, followed by discussion.
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