Canadian Studies Announcements

In This Issue:

News from Berkeley

• Now enrolling: Canadian courses for Spring 2025!

• Reminder: Pick up your 2024 Remembrance Poppies!

Academic Opportunities

• Berkeley Study Abroad Fair

• ICCS Graduate Student Scholarships

• Call for Papers: 27th Biennial ACSUS Conference

Upcoming Events

• Gi-ga-miinigoowiz Mamaandaawiziwin (May the Force be With You): A Star Wars Journey Towards Indigenous Language Revitalization

External Events

• Royal Canadian Legion Remembrance Day Service

• From Moose to Cattle? Exercising Indigenous Sovereignty in Climate Adaptation Projects

NEWS FROM BERKELEY

Are you an undergrad with an interest in Canada and a few open units in your schedule next semester? Canadian Studies invites you to check out our updated course recommendations. As an interdisciplinary program, we are pleased to highlight classes from a variety of disciplines, especially courses that reflect the diversity of Canadian Studies. Check out these three great courses, all led by one of our faculty affiliates!

• “Prose Nonfiction”: Cecil Giscombe will help students hone their writing abilities through the travel essay, with readings from Michael Ondaatje and BC-based author Gladys Hindmarch.
• “Native American Literature and Culture”: Beth Piatote will provide an overview of Indigenous literature in North America from the 19th century to present. Readings include The Marrow Thieves by Canadian Métis author Cherie Dimaline.
• “A Cultural History of Montreal”: Will Burton will explore the development of North America’s largest Francophone city as seen through literature and film.

Reminder: Remembrance Poppies Available!

In partnership with Royal Canadian Legion US Branch #25, the Canadian Studies Program is proud to serve as an official distributor of remembrance poppies. Interested persons may pick up their poppies at our office in 213 Philosophy Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, weekdays between 9am-4pm. While the poppy is free, the Legion gratefully accepts donations towards their Poppy Fund, which directly supports Canadian veterans and their families. Learn more about the Poppy Campaign here. You can also create a digital poppy honouring a loved one by visiting MyPoppy.ca.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Berkeley Study Abroad Fair

Wed., Nov. 13 | 12:00 – 4:00 pm | MLK Student Union Building | RSVP

Swing by Pauley Ballroom next week to learn how you can study abroad in Canada at Berkeley’s signature study abroad event for undergraduates. Options include an academic year exchange at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and a summer internship program in engineering in Toronto. Join for some fun activities, giveaways, and opportunities to interact with Berkeley Study Abroad advisers, campus resources, and former study abroad participants. We look forward to seeing you there!

Deadline: November 24, 2024

The International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) is offering six scholarships to enable international (and Canadian) scholars at the graduate and PhD level to visit a Canadian (or international) academic institution for 4 to 12 weeks to conduct research for their thesis or dissertation in the field of Canadian Studies. The maximum amount of the scholarship is $4,000 CAD ($~2,866 USD).

Applicants must be at the thesis or dissertation stage and obtain the support of a faculty mentor at a Canadian university or research institution. Please click here to learn more about the fellowship and read the full application criteria.

Call for Papers: 27th Biennial ACSUS Conference

Deadline: February 1, 2025

The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) will host its 27th biennial conference from November 13-16, 2025, in Seattle, WA. The conference is open to all proposals with a significant Canadian focus. ACSUS welcomes papers and panel proposals from students, professors, independent scholars, and practitioners on all diverse and critical perspectives related to the theme, “Canada: Spaces of Change.”

ACSUS is once again also inviting proposals from students at the undergraduate and graduate level to be part of its Emerging Scholars Colloquium. Emerging scholars accepted to the colloquium will receive guaranteed funding up to a maximum of $1,000 USD to help alleviate conference registration and travel costs.

Please click here to learn more about the conference and view the full call for papers.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Gi-ga-miinigoowiz Mamaandaawiziwin (May the Force be With You): A Star Wars Journey Towards Indigenous Language Revitalization

Tues., Nov. 19 | Noon | 223 Philosophy Hall | RSVP

The Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) dub of the iconic Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, debuted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on August 8th, 2024, and to the rest of the world on Disney+ on October 27. It the first major Hollywood film to be dubbed into Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), and is an expression of the growing language revitalization movement that seeks to restore the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) language to the galaxy.

The project brought together three generations of a family who played critical roles in the production: producer Maeengan Linklater, lead translator Pat Ningewance, and Aandeg Muldrew, voice of Luke Skywalker. The three will share their perspectives and insights from the inception of the project, through the translation, creation of the guide track, dubbing, acting, and finally, the premiere event.

Please note this event will start 30 minutes earlier than usual.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Maeengan Linklater is Director of Operations at the Dakota Ojibwe Tribal Council (DOTC) in Manitoba and served as producer for the dub.

Pat Ningewance is a long-time translator and professor of the Ojibwe language at the University of Manitoba. She is also the mother of Maeengan and grandmother of Aandeg. She was the lead translator and was the head language expert of the project.

Aandeg Muldrew is a language teacher and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Winnipeg. He helped with the translation and dub and voiced Luke Skywalker.

EXTERNAL EVENTS

Royal Canadian Legion Remembrance Day Service

Sat., Nov. 9 | 11:00 am | Petaluma, CA | Learn more

Join US Branch 25 of the Royal Canadian Legion, representing the San Francisco Bay Area, for their annual Remembrance Day Service at Liberty Cemetery in Petaluma. Guests are welcome at the cemetery. The service will also be streamed live via Zoom; if you are unable to join in person, please register here to join the online feed. Please direct questions to US Branch #25 President Michael Barbour.

From Moose to Cattle? Exercising Indigenous Sovereignty in Climate Adaptation Projects

Tues., Nov. 12 | 12:00 pm | Harvard University | RSVP

Political ecologist and Hildebrand Fellow Mindy Price will discuss her new book project, Contested Icescapes, Land, Politics, and Change on an Arctic Agricultural Frontier. The book explores how marginal Arctic land is imagined as a new frontier for agriculture under climate change, and the implications for rural and Indigenous lands communities. In this talk, she will examine the political history of agriculture in Canada’s Northwest Territories, and its development alongside recent climate crises in the territory. She will focus on how two First Nations are transforming agriculture from a settler-colonial tool of assimilation into an exercise of Indigenous sovereignty.

Mindy J. Price is a William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow in the Canada Program at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Her research focuses primarily on how climate change and climate change governance (re)structure inequalities in race, class, and gender. Her current work at Harvard examines the governance mechanisms behind new agricultural land use policies in Alaska and the Northwest Territories.

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