Professor McKay’s talk is entitled: For God and Country: Heroes, Monuments and the Sacralization of War in Rebranded Canada

Prior to the keynote lecutre, the School of Canadian Studies is also pleased to host a book launch reception honouring Professor Paul Litt’s recent published monograph: Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner

Event: Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Where: Room 2017, Dunton Tower

Time: 5pm-8:00pm

Please RSVP to the following email address: vickersverduynlecture@yahoo.ca

For more information, please contact: robyn_green@carleton.ca

Stipendiary Visiting scholars will also be offered $6500.00 to lead a semester-long senior undergraduate or graduate seminar on a topic related to their area of research. Visiting Scholar positions are available for periods between one month and one academic year (Stipendiary Visiting Scholars must stay for a period of at least four months between September and April).

Applications are welcome from scholars in any discipline, from Canada or abroad, who will conduct research on Canada during their stay. Preference will be given to university faculty members, but applications from doctoral and postdoctoral students will also be considered.

Carleton’s School of Canadian Studies is the oldest of its kind in Canada, and offers both a Master of Arts program and the only Canadian Studies doctoral programme in the country (jointly with Trent University). Our main interdisciplinary research areas are Aboriginal Studies and the North, Gender Studies, Canadian Cultural Studies and Cultural Policies, Heritage Conservation and Quebec Studies. The School’s location in Canada’s capital provides unparalleled resources for Canadianists, including the National Library, the National Gallery, the National Archives, the Museum of Civilization, the War Museum, the Supreme Court of Canada, and Parliament Hill. In addition, most national organizations have their headquarters in Ottawa, offering other possibilities for research.

Applications must be sent to canadian_studies@carleton.ca no later than 1 February 2012. Applications should include an up-to-date CV and a cover letter presenting the broad lines of the research project. For stipendiary applications, a brief description of the proposed thirteen-week seminar should also be included. Results will be announced in March for the academic year beginning on 1 September 2012. (Stipends are subject to budgetary approval). For more information on our School go to our website: http://www2.carleton.ca/canadianstudies/

Read the article here.

The interview took place on December 5th and aired on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning Show with Robyn Bresnahan. Listen to the interview here.

with Henry Milner

Monday, November 28, 2011, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Dunton Tower, Room 1216

FREE ADMISSION

Dr. Milner is presently a Visiting Scholar in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University Dr. Milner is Research Fellow at the Chair in Electoral Studies, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal. He has been a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Umea University in Sweden since 1998. He has held the Chair in Canadian Studies at the Sorbonne, and the Canada-US Fulbright Chair, at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He has also been a visiting professor or researcher at universities in Finland, Australia and New Zealand. His latest book is “The Internet Generation: Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts”. More information.

Congratulations Paul!

Read the story online here.

May 22, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Thinking about Québec’s place in Canada was one of the major factors leading to the rise of the Canadian Studies movement. This drove scholarly research into questions of identity, federalism, cultural studies, marginalities, relations with Indigenous peoples, gender, and other areas that were reshaping Canada. However, forty years later, following intense national debates about official languages and multiculturalism, concern about Québec’s place in Canada has seemingly waned.

Our experience in teaching Canadian Studies outside of Québec at the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. level reveals that a growing number of students have little knowledge – historical or otherwise – of Québec and its place in Canada. Moreover, the Canadian Studies curriculum and research literature often ignore questions of Québec and the associated issue of thestatus of the French language in Canada.

Canadian Studies programs in Canada and abroad often compete with cultural studies and Québec Studies programs. Our aim is to bring scholars from different fields together, including prominent scholars of Québec Studies and Canadian Studies to address the question, “Where is Québec in Canadian Studies?”

This bilingual conference seeks to bring together scholars and instructors, as well as directors and chairs of Canadian and Québec Studies programs, from Canada and abroad, in order to renew Canadian Studies and build bridges between these two disciplines, which share institutions, instructors, languages, history, and geography.

Held on May 22, 2012, this one-day conference takes place just before the opening of the International Council for Canadian Studies Biennial Conference. Participants will be able to attend the opening night of the ICCS Conference on the evening of May 22.

Themes that may be addressed include (though are not limited to):
·      Reflections on how we teach and researchCanadian and Québec Studies
·      Pedagogical, intellectual, and institutional links between Canadian and Québec Studies
·      The particular linguistic and identity dimensions of Canada, especially the National Capital Region
·      Political and policy dimensions of Canadian and Québec Studies
·      Shared and separate lived experiences relating to Québec ’s place in Canada

Presentations may be given in English or French. An interpreter will be present to facilitate discussions.

Please send an abstract of 250 words and a brief biography in English or French to Richard Nimijean richard_nimijean@carleton.ca or Anne Trépanier anne_trepanier@carleton.ca by December 15, 2011.

Papers must be submitted by April 30, 2012, so that discussants have time to prepare comments. Conference participants will be encouraged to submit revised drafts for peer review by August 15, 2012 (publication details to follow).

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La place du Québec dans les études canadiennes

22 mai 2012

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

La question de la place du Québec dans le Canada fut l’une des principaux moteurs  à l’essor de la discipline des études canadiennes. La recherche académique s’est intéressée rapidement aux  problématiques identitaires – what does Québec  want? -, à l’étude du fédéralisme, aux études culturelles, aux questions autochtones, aux études de la sexualité et à d’autres aspects qui redessinaient aussi par le fait même,  les contours du Canada tel que vécu et imaginé à la fin des années soixante.

Quarante ans plus tard, après de nombreux débats sur le multiculturalisme et les langues officielles, l’intérêt pour la question de la place du Québec semble avoir dramatiquement chuté. Pourtant, notre expérience en enseignement des étudescanadiennes au baccalauréat, à la maîtrise et au doctorat révèle que nos étudiants n’ont guère de connaissance sur le Québec.

De plus, les curricula d’études canadiennes ainsi que la littérature en recherche ignorent souvent la question du Québec et ses questions associées, comme lestatut du français au Canada. Plus encore, les programmes d’études canadiennes au Canada et à l’étranger rivalisent avec d’autres programmes d’études culturelles dont les études québécoises.

Aussi, souhaitons-nous réunir des penseurs, des chercheurs, des professeurs en études canadiennes et en études québécoises afin de poser la question suivante : mais quelle est donc la place du Québec dans les études canadiennes?

Cet atelier bilingue cherche à rassembler à la fois des penseurs et des enseignants au niveau universitaire, des directeurs et des organisateurs d’activités autour des études canadiennes et des études québécoises, provenant du Canada et del’étranger, afin de réfléchir plus avant sur le rôle des études canadiennes sur la représentation du Canada dans le monde et sur la compréhension du Québec au Canada d’une part, et d’autre part, pour comprendre quels ponts doivent être consolidés ou construits pour assurer le développement durable de ces deux disciplines qui partagent beaucoup : les institutions, certes, mais aussi les enseignants et les bourses de recherche, sans oublier l’histoire, la langue d’enseignement et la géographie.

L’atelier se tiendra la veille du congrès du conseil international d’études canadiennes, soit la journée du 22 mai 2012, à l’École d’études canadiennes de l’université Carleton. Les participants à cette journée seront invités à prendre part à la soirée d’ouverture du congrès le soir même.

Les grands thèmes choisis pour cet atelier sont les suivants:
·      Réflexions sur les disciplines : études canadiennes et études québécoises
·      Pédagogie, liens intellectuels et institutionnels entre les études canadiennes et études québécoises
·      Les particularités linguistiques et identitaires de la région de la Capitale nationale du Canada
·      Etudes Canada-Québec : Questions politiques et de politiques
·      Québec et le ROC : Vécus distincts et partagés

Les communications peuvent être données en français ou en anglais. Une interprète sera sur place afin de faciliter les échanges.

Un résumé de 250 mots et une brève biographie doivent être envoyés à Richard Nimijean richard_nimijean@carleton.ca ou Anne Trépanier anne_trepanier@carleton.ca au plus tard le 15 décembre 2011.

Les textes doivent être soumis le 30 avril afin de permettre au panélistes de préparer leurs commentaires. Les textes issus des communications données le 22 mai devrontêtre envoyés au plus tard le 15 août 2012 pour leur évaluation par les pairs et leur soumission pour une publication (les détails suivront).

Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of
Cultural Diversity

Edited by Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, and Mike DeGagné

Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity is the third in a three-volume series addressing the complex notion of reconciliation in a national landscape.

Two of the volume’s co-editors from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, Jonathan Dewar, Director of Research and a PhD candidate in the School of Canadian Studies, and Mike DeGagné, Executive Director, will be present to discuss this volume and theTruth and Reconciliation Series.

The Aboriginal Healing Foundation brings together disparate voices to address how communities—immigrant, racialized, “new” Canadians, and other minoritized groups—relate to the intricacies of reconciliation as a concept. Many of the contributors included address questions of land, Aboriginal histories, and different trajectories that have led to the current configuration and conglomeration of peoples in this geographic space. And, a central organizing principle of this collection is artistic practice, specifically in how embedding creative acts within critical responses helps to create a relevant framework of possibilities as we move inexorably into uncertain futures.

Featured within are perspectives from Ashok Mathur, Shirley Bear, Henry
Tsang, Glen Lowry, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Joseph Naytowhow, b.h. Yael, Sandra Semchuk, Elwood Jimmy, Dorothy Christian, Rita Wong, Sylvia Hamilton, Meera Margaret Singh, Jamelie Hassan, Miriam Jordan, Renisa Mawani, Rhose Harris-Galia, Sid Chow Tan, Ronald Lee, Bonita Lawrence, Enakshi Dua, Robinder Kaur Sehdev, Srimoyee Mitra, Malissa Phung, Henry Yu, Roy Miki, Ravi de Costa, Tom Clark, Rinaldo Walcott, Mitch Miyagawa, Jen Budney, Jayce Salloum, Rita Shelton Deverell, George Elliott Clarke, Diyan Achjadi, and Kirsten Emiko McAllister.

This publication is available free of charge through the Aboriginal Healing
Foundation at www.ahf.ca.

In her most recent article published by Heritage Toronto, Dr. Terry considers Mackenzie House as both a product and purveyor of history, asking: How did Mackenzie’s last house avoid demolition to become a City of Toronto museum? And how has that museum been shaped by Toronto’s current cultural diversity? She shares her take on those questions in her piece, entitled “Manufacturing Memories: Lessons Learned from the Mackenzie House.” This article proved to be particularly relevant in light of recent threats to cut city funding of Toronto’s historic museums.

Online: http://www.heritagetoronto.org/news/story/2011/09/08/manufacturing-memories

Dr. Terry has made a vital contribution in arguing for the significance and importance of heritage sites in Toronto’s cultural landscape.

The Project was featured in the Ottawa Citizen on  Sept. 24th. The article can be read here.