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BACS News
Congratulations to BACS President, Susan Hodgett, who has been
elected Secretary of ICCS.
The list of books for review in the BJCS is available now on
the BACS website.
The deadline for application to BACS for all ICCS awards is now 14 September 2009. See below for
further details.
A final reminder that the annual conference of the BACS History Group takes place on Friday 17 July. More details.
Democracy as a work in progress:
the intellectual and cultural dynamics of the Canadian idea
BACS 35th Annual
Conference
Murray Edwards
College, University of Cambridge, UK
6-8 April 2010
Conference information and the call for
papers in English and French can be found here.
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES:
HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING, CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES,
AND CANADIAN APPROACHES?
5th October 2009, Canadian High
Commission, London UK
The British Association of Canadian Studies is pleased to announce a workshop
to re-launch its Aboriginal Studies Circle. Many diverse indigenous
populations around the globe have been the victims of marginalization as they
confront the vast array of issues resulting from both historical injustices
and contemporary global challenges. This workshop seeks to bring together
academics and other professionals with an interest in indigenous studies to
discuss the broad issues that affect indigenous peoples both in Canada and
elsewhere. Through building an interdisciplinary network, it is hoped
that discussions of the challenges facing indigenous peoples can be drawn
from the periphery of contemporary political, social, cultural, and legal
discourses and brought into the mainstream.
Read more...
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ICCS awards
The deadline for submission to BACS for the following awards is 14 September
2009:
- Graduate Student
Scholarships
- Publishing Fund
- Pierre Savard Award
- Best doctoral thesis in
Canadian Studies
More information is available on the ICCS website.
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1759 Revisited: The Conquest of Canada in
Historical Perspective
The capture of Quebec City
by British forces led by General James Wolfe in September 1759 had global
consequences. It marked the beginning of the end of the French Empire in North America and led to a fundamental reshaping of
British attitudes and policies towards their American colonies. It therefore
seems appropriate in 2009 on the 250th anniversary of the fall of Quebec city
to re-examine in the light of recent scholarship not only what happened on
the Plains of Abraham but also its broader implications and the historical
memories of the Conquest in Quebec, Canada, Britain, France and the USA.
This will be the focus of 1759 Revisited: The Conquest of Canada in
Historical Perspective. The conference is sponsored by the Canadian
Studies programme at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies and the Institute
for the Study of the Americas (both part of the School of the Advanced
Studies at the University of London) and will be held in London from Thursday,
17 September - Saturday, 19 September 2009.
On Thursday and Friday the sessions will be held in Canada House, the home of
the Canadian High Commission, in Trafalgar
Square, and on Saturday in the University of
London Geography Department in Bedford
Way. A detailed timetable will not be
released until about a month before the event but you can find a list of the
contributors and the titles of their papers and a copy of the registration
form at the website of the Institute for the Study for the Americas.
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Ageing Societies
The Dynamics of Demographic Change in Canada
Call for Papers
The International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) will hold its next biennial,
international conference in Montreal during
the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences to be held at Concordia University from May 28 to June 4,
2010. Proposals for twenty minute papers, to be presented in either English
of French, are invited from disciplinary, multidisciplinary, or comparative
perspectives on the theme of Ageing Societies - The Dynamics of Demographic
Change in Canada.
Further details are on the ICCS website.
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Summer events
Margaret
Atwood tour
The author will be touring to promote her new novel, The Year of the Flood
this summer; Provisional appearance include St John's Church, Edinburgh (30 August), Edinburgh Book
Festival (sold out), Manchester Cathedral (1 September), St James's Piccadilly (2/3 September), Cardiff Cathedral
(4 September), St Michael's Church Bath (6 September), Ely Cathedral (7 September) and St George's Bristol (9 September).
Generous by Michael Healey Directed by Eleanor Rhode. Designed
by Sophie Mosberger.
The London debut of multi-award-winning playwright
Michael Healey, one of Canada's
leading dramatists.
What happens when someone is overwhelmed with the desire to help?
A minority government is on the verge of collapse; a ruthless oil executive
tells the truth to a reporter; an effusive young law clerk engages in an
excruciating post-coital chat with an aging judge; and a spectacular battle
wages over a bucket of fried chicken. Through four interconnected stories,
Michael Healey questions the idea of the selfless act. Politically-charged,
sharply-written and hilarious, Generous is a tour-de-force from one of Canada's most
successful playwrights.
Finborough Theatre, The Finborough, 118 Finborough Road, London
SW10 9ED Box Office
0844 847 1652.
Sundays and Mondays, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23 and 24 August 2009.
Evenings at 7.30pm. Tickets £13, £9 concessions
Performance Length: Approximately 2 hours.
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British Journal of Canadian Studies - Books for review
The list of books available for review in the BJCS is now
available on the BACS website.
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