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Associate member conference: British Association for Canadian Studies
Associate member conference: Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries
Associate member conference: Italian Association for Canadian Studies
Associate member conference: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Associate member conference: American Council for Quebec Studies
Associate member conference: Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand
Associate member conference: Israel Association for Canadian Studies
Associate member conference: Central European Association for Canadian Studies
Associate member conference: French Association for Canadian Studies
Associate member conference: Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland
Associate member conference: Indian Association for Canadian Studies
Associate member conference: Cátedra de Estudios sobre Canadá (CES), Universidad de La Habana
Associate member conference: American Council for Quebec Studies
Associate member conference: Russian Association for Canadian Studies
Associate member conference: The Korean Association for Canadian Studies
Associate member conference: Japanese Association for Canadian Studies
Associate member conference: Polish Association for Canadian Studies
Associate member conference: Nordic Association for Canadian Studies
Contesting Canada’s Future”: an international conference on the study of Canada
Associate member conference: Association for Canadian Studies in China
Arctic Modernities - an international interdisciplinary conference
BEST DOCTORAL THESIS IN CANADIAN STUDIES
This ICCS Award is designed to recognize and promote each year an outstanding PhD thesis on a Canadian topic, written by a member (or one of his/her students) of a Canadian Studies Association or Associate Member, and which contributes to a better understanding of Canada.Discourse & Dynamics: Canadian Women as Public Intellectuals
Emotion, Space and Indigenous Populations
The Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional GeographiesMany interpretations of the term “postcolonial” neglect the fact that, before the arrival of Europeans, there were pre-existent traditions/cultures in former colonies such as Canada, Australia and South-Africa. In many cases, the word postcolonial thus primarily serves to reinforce the legacy of colonization. As an alternative, Native Canadian novelist Thomas King proposes a non-centred method to include locally identified and marginal voices by presenting new descriptors that avoid privileging one culture over another. Offering terms such as “tribal”, “interfusional”, “polemical” and “associational” (1990, 186) to describe the range of indigenous writing, King identifies “vantage points from which we can see a particular literary landscape” (1990, 186).
In this session, new vantage points are explored to study not only literary but also cultural, anthropological, geographical, social and other landscapes in which Indigenous communities are living today. Land and/or territory are not only crucial for the survival of Indigenous peoples, but they also have a symbolic meaning for many communities that do not live on their ancestral land. In order to discuss the emotional effects of recent developments such as migration and urbanisation of Indigenous peoples, it is essential to reflect on representations of space and on the relationship between identity and physical and social environment.
In this interdisciplinary session we welcome papers that discuss spatial knowledge of Indigenous communities and their culturally distinct understanding of landscape through the concept of participatory mapping, that identify and explore Indigenous heritage places, that examine geopolitical issues and Indigenous governance, that focus on land boundaries and border crossings from a wide range of perspectives and within a variety of domains such as Arctic studies, anthropology, cultural and social geography, literary and minority studies.Many interpretations of the term “postcolonial” neglect the fact that, before the arrival of Europeans, there were pre-existent traditions/cultures in former colonies such as Canada, Australia and South-Africa. In many cases, the word postcolonial thus primarily serves to reinforce the legacy of colonization. As an alternative, Native Canadian novelist Thomas King proposes a non-centred method to include locally identified and marginal voices by presenting new descriptors that avoid privileging one culture over another. Offering terms such as “tribal”, “interfusional”, “polemical” and “associational” (1990, 186) to describe the range of indigenous writing, King identifies “vantage points from which we can see a particular literary landscape” (1990, 186).
In this session, new vantage points are explored to study not only literary but also cultural, anthropological, geographical, social and other landscapes in which Indigenous communities are living today. Land and/or territory are not only crucial for the survival of Indigenous peoples, but they also have a symbolic meaning for many communities that do not live on their ancestral land. In order to discuss the emotional effects of recent developments such as migration and urbanisation of Indigenous peoples, it is essential to reflect on representations of space and on the relationship between identity and physical and social environment.
In this interdisciplinary session we welcome papers that discuss spatial knowledge of Indigenous communities and their culturally distinct understanding of landscape through the concept of participatory mapping, that identify and explore Indigenous heritage places, that examine geopolitical issues and Indigenous governance, that focus on land boundaries and border crossings from a wide range of perspectives and within a variety of domains such as Arctic studies, anthropology, cultural and social geography, literary and minority studies.
Associate member conference: Chilean Association for Canadian Studies
Associate member conference: Canadian Studies Centre in Paraguay