Conference news from the British Association for Canadian Studies http://www.canadian-studies.info/main Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:37:13 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.canadian-studies.info/main/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.canadian-studies.info/main Conference news from the British Association for Canadian Studies http://www.canadian-studies.info/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=202&Itemid=28 Under Western Skies: Climate, Culture and Change in Western North America Extended Call for Papers and Added Keynote Speaker MAUDE BARLOW, ANDREW NIKIFORUK, RICHARD WHITE, VANDANA SHIVA, LEO JACOBS, MARY SIMON October 13-16, 2010, Mount Royal University Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The call for papers has been extended to March 1, 2010. We are especially interested in additional proposals related to environmental issues in Mexico or from private sector/corporate stakeholders, but we continue to welcome any and all proposals that speak to the call. Call For Papers This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural gathering welcomes presentations on the environmental challenges now faced by diverse populations, both human and nonhuman, in the Western lands of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Academics and other stakeholders from the wider community are invited to participate in this urgent and compelling dialogue. The conference invites academics from the humanities, social and natural sciences, as well as activists, businesses, artists and others to speak across the boundaries that conventionally divide them. Since both the geographical and critical terrains at issue are considerable, a wide array of topics and time periods is welcome. The shared concern will be the interaction between humans and the natural environment in the context of Western history, geography, climate change, and commercial/sustainable development of lands and resources. Possible directions may include, but are not restricted to, the following: sustainable economic development indigenous ways of knowing urbanization/suburban sprawl in the New West popular culture and the mass media literary or filmic representations of natural, urban or industrial environments government action/inaction on the environment ecofeminism environmental racism and justice ecological or ecocritical examinations of particular Western environs and climes specific issues such as the Cophenhagen Summit, Kyoto Protocol, or oil/tar sands development the borderlands of Canada / United States / Mexico environmental education in K-12, postsecondary and community contexts historical perspectives environmental activism environmental law and policy Proposals of 250 words (attached to an email as a .doc or .docx file) can be sent to either Robert Boschman (rboschman@mtroyal.ca) or Mario Trono (mtrono@mtroyal.ca). New Deadline for Submissions: MARCH 1, 2010 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:08:04 +0100 http://www.canadian-studies.info/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=192&Itemid=28 Call for Papers An Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Conference TEXTING OBAMA: politics/poetics/popular culture 7-10 September 2010 Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Hosted by English Research Institute, the Manchester Writing School at MMU and The Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Research Confirmed keynote speakers: Simon Gikandi, David Theo Goldberg, Bonnie Greer, Anna Hartnell, Ato Quayson, Patricia Williams. Readings from Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay and others Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:14:14 +0100