Canadian Studies News & Events

Next Colloquium

December 10, 2019

Tyler Nodine, UC Berkeley

Tuesday December 10, 12:30 PM, 223 Moses Hall

Colloquium: Speaker – Tyler Nodine, UC Berkeley Graduate Student & Hildebrand Fellow with Canadian Studies

Tyler Nodine will discuss adaptive management and the future of the U.S./Canada Columbia River Treaty. Lunch provided. Free, open to all.

This event is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Consulate General of Canada San Francisco | Silicon Valley

Catching Up With Dr. Richards

This July over 1 million people descended upon Calgary, Alberta to attend the annual Calgary Stampede, a ten-day celebration of western culture. Kimberly Richards, a former Canadian Studies Hildebrand Fellow turns a critical eye toward what is branded as “the greatest outdoor show on Earth”. Dr. Richards’ article, “Crude Optimism: Romanticizing Alberta’s Oil Frontier at the Calgary Stampede,” won The Drama Review’s 2019 prestigious Graduate Student Essay competition and was published in TDR this summer. Dr. Richards explains, the “article interrogates the economic and affective ties between Alberta’s oil and gas industry and the Calgary Stampede and argues the Stampede produces an affective climate of ‘crude optimism,’ an attachment to fossil fuels despite the brutal realities of extractivism and carbon emissions.” Following the filing of her dissertation, which investigated linkages between performance and petro-imperialism, at UC Berkeley in summer 2019, Dr. Richards took a position as Instructor of English at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, B.C. In September, the Canadian Studies Program caught up with Dr. Richards to hear about her new position and her experience at Cal. Click here to read the full article.

Employment Opportunity

Western Washington University Canadian-American Studies is hiring!

The below comes to us from our friends at Western Washington University:

The Canadian-American Studies Program at Western Washington University is urgently seeking a graduate student or junior scholar who might be interested in teaching for us in the winter 2020 term. The two courses are:

HIST 277: Canada: A Historical Survey (60 students), and

HIST 379: Canadian-American Relations (35 students).

Both courses are scheduled for Tuesday/Thursday. They contribute to the History Department as well as to interdisciplinary programs in Canadian-American Studies and Salish Sea Studies.

There is also the opportunity to continue teaching in the spring 2020 term if the candidate is interested. Right now, the schedule is slated to offer the following:

HIST 277: Canada: A Historical Survey (cross-listed with C/AM)

HIST 390: Environmental History of Canada (the History Department would consider offering a different 300-level course in the area of the candidate’s specialization).

Please circulate. Questions and interested candidates should be directed to Johann Neem, the Chair of the History Department (neemj@wwu.edu) and send applications to https://employment.wwu.edu/cw/en-us/job/496156/history-nontenure-track-vacancy-pool.

This is an urgent search to replace a faculty member who recently left the university. Interested candidates should email Professor Neem ASAP.

Call for submissions

IDENTITY PERFORMANCE IN NORTH AMERICAN FRANCOPHONE SPACES

Quebec and Francophone Studies Conference

A collaboration between Carleton University’s School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies and Trent University’s Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies

March 20^th-21^st, 2020, Ottawa, Ontario

How do we understand, identify, name and problematize the physical, political, historical, cultural, identity-based and memorial spaces francophones live in, where questions about belonging are at play and performed in North America? Does the relationship to one or more of these tangible and intangible places, or even to a superimposed composition of several of these spaces, contribute to the manifestation of belonging to a language, a region, a territory, a culture, a social class or a country? What about the identity-based relationship to the national capital? Intrinsic to the ideology of Pierre Elliot Trudeau and his vision of Canada, official bilingualism was, in addition to provide an anchor for the unity of the nation, a commitment to the development of linguistic minorities (Official Languages Act of 1985), a strategy of resistance to assimilation, and a way of separating ethnicity from language and allowing more openness to immigration (Pierre E. Trudeau, 1969). If the French language became one of two official languages – state sponsored, in a minority position to English, and largely politicized – discussions about francophone communities in minority settings in Canada continue to raise polarizing ideas about the quality of the French language, the importance of French-Canadian heritage and the threat of assimilation. In her recent documentary Denise au pays des Francos, Denise Bombardier makes a distinction between francophones of French-Canadian heritage outside of Quebec and immigrant francophone Canadians. Is Quebec as a nation still a home (in the sense of Heimat) where Francophone Canadiens can find refuge and nourishment so they can move surviving to thriving?

The Université de l’Ontario Français project is now on the rails. Here in Ontario, we can indeed see that one hundred years after Regulation 17 and more than twenty years after having won the battle to maintain the Montfort Hospital (1997) it is time to take stock of the collective identity of Franco-Ontarians and to celebrate the thriving francophone minority communities of North America. What is really going on? Does a Canadian Francophonie exist? How do we give Francophones a voice in politics in a rhetoric of reparation given that the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015) reveals the ravages caused by the residential school system, where the goal was largely to extinguish Indigenous languages? How do we now approach the history and the status of French as a colonial language? What about the relationship between Francophones to each other, to the Quebecois, to other minority contexts, and to Indigenous peoples? This conference is held in an Anglophone setting of a unilingual anglophone university – in Canada’s officially bilingual national capital with a goal of creating a space for exchanges between francophone and Francophile researchers from all North American spaces – whether they are from Quebec or outside of Quebec, Canadians, Americans, Indigenous, French or English speaking, in order to create bridges between people, communities, networks and disciplines.

The School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University, in collaboration with the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University, invites academic and independent researchers, and Master and PhD level students to join us to reflect on these questions. The conference will take place March 20th and 21st 2020, to mark International Francophonie Day. We are accepting suggestions for panel topics as well as individual proposals. We invite proposals in French and English about francophones minorities in Canada, Franco-Americans, Cajuns, Acadians, Quebecois, Indigenous peoples, and French-speaking immigrant communities, particularly those related to:

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We are accepting proposals from interdisciplinary and discipline-based researchers such as Quebec studies, Francophone studies, Indigenous studies, Canadian studies, sociology, history, museum or archival studies, political science, anthropology, literature and the performing arts, media studies and religious studies. To submit your proposal please send a 300-word resume of your paper and a brief 100-word biography by December 19^th, 2019.

Proposals will be evaluated, and successful speakers will be contacted in January 2020. Additional information on the location of the conference and registration process will be sent at that time. We hope to offer simultaneous translation in English and French. The level of support available to participants will depend on funding received.

Web: http://bit.ly/2CtAkWo

Email: espacefranco2020@gmail.com

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Appel de propositions

PERFORMANCES DE L’IDENTITÉ DANS LES ESPACES FRANCOPHONES NORD-AMÉRICAINS

Colloque sur les études québécoises et francophones

Une collaboration entre la School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies de l’Université Carleton et le Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies de l’Université Trent.

Les 20 et 21 mars 2020, Ottawa, Ontario

Comment comprendre, identifier, nommer et problématiser les espaces physiques, politiques, historiques, culturels, identitaires et mémoriels francophones où les questions d’appartenance se jouent et se performent en Amérique du Nord? La relation à l’un de ces lieux physique ou intangible ou encore, la dialectique avec une composition superposée de plusieurs de ces espaces participent-elles de la manifestation de l’appartenance à une langue, à une région, à un territoire, à une culture, à une classe sociale ou au pays? Qu’en est-il du rapport identitaire à l’espace de la capitale nationale? Intrinsèque à la pensée de Pierre Elliott Trudeau et à sa vision du Canada, le bilinguisme officiel fut, outre une balise pour l’unité du pays, un engagement envers l’épanouissement des minorités linguistiques (Loi sur les langues officielles de 1985) une stratégie de résistance à l’assimilation et une façon de désethniciser le rapport à la langue et permettre l’ouverture à l’immigration (Pierre E. Trudeau, 1969). Si le français est devenu l’une des deux langues officielles – subventionné et minoritaire, aux accents largement politisés – parler des communautés francophones en milieu minoritaire au Canada continue d’attiser des réflexions polarisantes sur la qualité de la langue, l’importance de l’héritage canadien-français et la menace de l’assimilation. Faut-il, comme Denise Bombardier dans son récent documentaire Denise au pays des Francos, distinguer les francophones d’héritage canadien-français hors Québec des Canadiens francophones issus de l’immigration? «Le pays du Québec» est-il encore un foyer (dans le sens de Heimat) où les Francophones canadiens devraient venir se réfugier et se nourrir pour cesser de survivre et enfin s’épanouir?

Le projet de l’Université de l’Ontario Français est maintenant sur les rails. Ici en Ontario, on peut en effet penser que cent ans après le Règlement 17 et plus de vingt ans après avoir gagné la lutte pour le maintien de l’hôpital Montfort (1997) il est temps de faire le bilan sur l’identité collective des Franco-Ontariens et de célébrer l’épanouissement des communautés minoritaires francophones en Amérique du nord. Qu’en est-il vraiment? Existe-il d’ailleurs une francophonie canadienne? Comment donner aux Francophones une voix politique dans une rhétorique de réparation alors que le rapport final de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation (2015) révèle les ravages causés par les pensionnats obligatoires, dont la volonté délibérée d’éteindre les langues autochtones? Comment aborder aujourd’hui l’histoire et le statut du français comme langue coloniale ? Qu’en est-il de la relation des Francophones entre eux, avec les Québécois, avec les autres milieux minoritaires et avec les Autochtones? Ce colloque tenu en Anglophonie dans la capitale nationale du Canada vise à créer un espace d’échanges entre les chercheurs francophones et francophiles de tout l’espace nord-américain – qu’ils soient du Québec ou «hors-Québec», Canadiens ou Américains – Autochtones, d’expression française ou anglaise, afin de créer des ponts entre les gens, les communautés, les réseaux et les disciplines.

La School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies de l’Université de Carleton, en collaboration avec le Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies de l’Université Trent, invitent les chercheurs universitaires, et indépendants ainsi que les étudiants des 2^e et 3^ecycles à venir réfléchir à ces questions. Le colloque aura lieu les 20 et 21 mars 2020, afin de souligner la journée internationale de la francophonie. Nous acceptons les suggestions de panels thématiques de même que les propositions individuelles. Nous invitons les propositions de présentations en français et anglais qui touchent les minorités francophones du Canada, les Franco-Américains, les Cajuns, les Acadiens, les Québécois, les Autochtones et les communautés immigrantes d’expression française et particulièrement celles reliées à ces quatre thèmes :

DIRECTIVES DE SOUMISSION

Nous acceptons les propositions de communications de chercheurs interdisciplinaires ainsi que des disciplines telles que les études québécoises, les études francophones, les études autochtones, les études canadiennes, la sociologie, l’histoire, la littérature, les études muséales ou archivistiques, les études politiques, l’anthropologie, les arts d’interprétation, les études médiatiques et les études religieuses. Pour soumettre votre proposition veuillez svp envoyer un résumé de votre proposition de communication de 300 mots et une brève biographie de 100 mots d’ici au 19 décembre 2019.

Les propositions seront évaluées et les conférenciers et conférencières retenu(e)s seront contacté(e)s en janvier 2020. Des informations supplémentaires sur le lieu exact de la conférence et l’inscription seront alors envoyées. Nous espérons pouvoir offrir la traduction simultanée en français et en anglais. L’appui disponible aux participants et participantes dépendra des subventions obtenues.

Web: http://bit.ly/2Q2cybW

Courriel: espacefranco2020@gmail.com

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