Peace and (In)Security: Canada’s Promise, Canada’s Problem?
BACS 36th Annual Conference
The University of Birmingham, UK, 4-6 April 2011
Literature Group CFP
The British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) is pleased to announce that their 36th annual conference will take place on 4–6 April 2011 at the University of Birmingham. Founded in 1900, the ‘Redbrick’ university is located within the United Kingdom’s second largest and most diverse city.
Reflecting one of the explicit priorities of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Government of Canada), the conference aims to interrogate the historical legacies, contemporary realities and cultural myths of the ‘peaceable kingdom'. What constitutes peace in the context of economic instability and political insecurity? Which discourses, images and texts circulate in a time of environmental crisis and social anxiety? How do the actions, events and conflicts of the Canadian past inflect the policies, politics and imaginings of future security?
The British Association for Canadian Studies invites paper proposals related to notions of peace and (in)security pertaining across, within and beyond the field of Canadian Studies. Proposals for 20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, are invited from any single disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspective. Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and comparative panel proposals, including those from postgraduate students, are welcome.
For the literature panels, papers in the following areas would be especially appreciated:
· narratives of conflict and war
· anti-war and pacifist literatures
· visions of home and safety
· themes of violence, anger and anxiety
· (re)building communities
· aesthetics of instability
· utopian and dystopian visions
· displacement and unstable identities
· relations between nations
· representations of reparation, reconciliation and resolution
Enquiries and proposals to:
Jodie Robson, BACS Administrator
Proposals (panel and individual) and deadline:
Email abstract(s) of 200–300 words and brief CV (please do not exceed one side of A4) which must include your title, institutional affiliation, email and mailing address by 10 December 2010