Dear Conference Delegate

Thank you for your interest in participating in the Association of Canadian Studies 21st Biennial International Conference. We are really looking forward to welcoming you either in-person or online to Belfast this May.

The first day of the conference (Thursday May 9th) will be online (1.30pm to 5.00pm local time) and the following two days (Friday May 10th and Saturday May 11th) in-person only, hosted on campus at Queen University Belfast.

The in-person element of the conference runs from 11.15am on Friday May 10th to 1.30pm on Saturday May 11th. It will take place in Queen's historic Lanyon Building, at the heart of the university's campus. For in-person delegates the conference fee includes refreshments and lunch on both of these days. If you are in Belfast on Thursday May 9 and would like to meet up on campus to join the online element of the conference, you can join us in a multimedia lecture theatre that has been set aside to facilitate this (Lecture Theatre 0G.029, Elmwood (Geography) Building, Elmwood Avenue).

For in-person delegates there are two rates:
Standard Fee: £105
Concession Fee (for students or those not economically active): £80

The conference dinner will be held in Council Chamber after the Eaton Lecture in the evening of Friday May 10th. The dinner includes 2 courses, wine, beer or soft drinks. An additional fee is payable to attend the dinner: £45. If you would like to bring a guest to the dinner, please also select this option on the registration page.

Please note that places for the Conference Dinner are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. A wait list facility will be offered when all of the available places have been filled. If you wish to add your details to the waiting list facility, please email ICACS2024@qub.ac.uk

In-person delegates can register for the conference below:
https://ecommerce.apps.qub.ac.uk/osacsi/catalog/index.php

Online only delegates should register by email, emailing ICACS2024@qub.ac.uk. For delegates joining us only for the online element of the conference (Thursday May 9th) there is no fee.

Further details of the conference programme will be published shortly.

Please feel free to circulate this email and the conference poster (available from here and above) to colleagues and share within your networks. We so look forward to you joining us.

Niall

Dr Niall Majury SFHEA (he/him)
President, Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland (ACSI)

Our 2024 Biennial Conference will be hosted in person by the Centre of Canadian Studies at Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland). The Call for Proposals is for papers, performances, screenings or exhibits on any aspect of Canadian Studies. While we warmly welcome contributions that engage with the conference's keynote theme – Canadian Anthropocene(s): Pathways to Sustainable Futures – the conference scope goes beyond this to include any aspect of Canadian studies from any academic discipline or field of practice. ACSI greatly values the breadth of contributions that typically characterise our conferences and Canadian Studies at large.

Proposals as a 300-word abstract (in English, French or Irish, on any Canadian studies subject) bundled with 5 key words, and a short bio, should be submitted online by 22 December 2023 at: https://forms.office.com/e/7XDGGXadm.

The call for papers is available in English from here and in French by clicking here.

At the recent AGM of the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) held at York University Toronto, John Maher, accounting and finance lecturer at SETU and ACSI Council member, was unanimously re-elected by the international delegates as Treasurer of the ICCS for a further two years. The ICCS which ACSI are affiliated to is an international scholarly body which promotes the study of Canada in the humanities and social sciences. Its membership includes national associations in Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Each year, it awards research bursaries to enable postgraduate scholars to travel to Canada and undertake research at universities and research agencies there. It also publishes an academic journal in partnership with the University of Toronto Press and facilitates collaboration between Canadian Studies scholars worldwide. Its patron is the Governor General of Canada, and it is a body corporate and a charity established under Canadian law.

The conference programme, abstracts and speakers' bios for ACSI's upcoming online conference - Canada Today and Tomorrow - on Thursday May 18th has now been launched and is available by clicking the link here.

ACSI will host a one day online conference of established and emerging international scholars reflecting on a range of dimensions of research on Canada.

Please note all times listed in the programme are local times for Dublin, Ireland.

This online event has been organised by the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland (ACSI). It is being hosted by the Centre of Canadian Studies at Queen's University Belfast, which gratefully acknowledges the support of Public Engagement at Queen's for kindly hosting the event on their platform (https://www.qub.ac.uk/).

Registration for the conference is via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/492267564537.

Her excellency the Canadian Ambassador Nancy Smyth visited the Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies on Friday 3rd March. The visit was attended by Prof Veronica Campbell, SETU President, members of the Executive Management Team and ACSI council members including Richard Hayes, Ned Murphy and Kieran Cronin. Photographs taken by George Goulding, SETU 2023.

Canada Today and Tomorrow gathers together established and emerging international scholars to reflect on key themes within research on Canada, including transitions, decolonialisation, pluriculturalism, interculturalism, indigeneity, translations, multilingualism, the environment and migration.

Speakers are drawn from a variety of countries, including Ireland, Germany, Portugal and Canada. The conference will be structured around short (15 minute) interventions whose aim is to provoke reflection and questions for wider discussion among everyone attending. This online event has been organised by the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland (ACSI). It is being hosted by the Centre of Canadian Studies at Queen's University Belfast, which gratefully acknowledges the support of Public Engagement at Queen's for kindly hosting the event on their platform (https://www.qub.ac.uk/).

Registration for the conference is via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/492267564537.

Dr Julie Rodgers has been jointly awarded the 2022 Prix de la Délégation générale du Québec à Londres award with Dr. Craig Moyes (Kings College London). This award is generously offered by the Quebec General Delegation in London, to help students and academics conduct research in Quebec studies. Further details can be found here.

The International Journal of Canadian Studies is seeking interdisciplinary original submissions for its #61 special issue to be published in May 2023.
This special issue welcomes articles discussing the topic: "Is Canada a model?"
The International Journal of Canadian Studies is a long-running interdisciplinary journal dedicated to examining Canada from the fields of the arts, literature, geography, history, native studies, social and political sciences. The bilingual journal is published by the University of Toronto Press.
Submissions could explore the place of Canada in the world as a possible "role model" or simply a model of society, in the past or present times. Does Canada have a power of emulation regarding other nations, regarding which topics? Is Canada a (self-proclaimed) leader in some specific social or political areas? In the field of the arts and literatures, are there any Canadian literary canons ?
Submissions (6000 to 8000 words plus two summaries in English and French) are welcome from a range of disciplines and perspectives in Canadian Studies, including, but not restricted to political studies, international relations literatures and the arts, history, native studies, sociology, anthropology.
Submissions in French or English can be uploaded on our portal until October 3, 2022.
To prepare and submit your submission, follow the "Guideline for authors" on the website: https://utpjournals.press/journals/ijcs/submissions. All articles will undergo double-blind peer review.

ROBERT LEPAGE
Playwright, director, actor and producer
A Quiet Revolution
Thursday 25th November 2021 - 7 pm (GMT)

The event at the BFI is now fully booked, but you can still participate in this exciting event via the live streaming.
Book your ticket now to follow the Québec Annual Lecture online via https://bit.ly/QuebecRobertLepage.

ACSI are delighted to announce that that the 2021 Barbara Godard Prize has been awarded to ACSI member Marta Croll-Baehre for their paper Imitation of Empire Cuisine: An Auto-ethnographic Exploration of the Canadian Artisanal Menu in Conversation with Fred Wah's Diamond Grill.

Marta Croll-Baehre is a Ph.D. student in the English and Cultural Studies program at McMaster University. Marta presented her research at the 2021 ACSI conference. Further details about the 2021 Barbara Godard Prize awarded by the ACQL-ALCQ can be found here.

Dr Julie Rodgers has been awarded a D'Arcy McGee Beacon Fellowship by ICUF in collaboration with Professor Jane McGaughey (Concordia University). As part of the fellowship, Julie will deliver a lecture on the topic of maternal counternarratives in contemporary Quebec and Irish women's writing on 26th May 2021. This is a Zoom event. Further details including a link to registration can be found here.

The International Conference "Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age: the Politics of Language, Media and Culture" (University of Naples "L'Orientale", conference convenor: Anna Mongibello) will be held online on Zoom on 27-30 October 2021.
The conference aims at broadening the current critical debate on creative Indigenous resistance in digital environments so as to include a combination of theoretical approaches and methodologies that range from Indigenous Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Multimodal Analysis, Media Studies, among others, that may offer new perspectives and insights.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Facebook, Twitter and other social networks as new frontiers for Indigenous activists
• Corpora, annotation schemes and other resources and methods for analyzing Indigenous resistance
• Linguistic, multimodal, critical analysis of dissent and online struggles
• Metaphors, tropes, narratives and other devices used in Indigenous digital activism on social media
• Language, memory and Indigeneity in virtual worlds
• Sovereignty, Indigenous lands and the cyberspace
• Online/offline Indigenous self-representations and their multiple expressions
• Responses to online anti-Indigenous racism
• Indigenous (self- and other) representations in video-games
• Contemporary online Indigeneity and global connectivity
• Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence and digital worlds
• Technology and decolonization
• Emancipatory role of digital technology for Indigenous people
• Data, information, connectivity, digital technologies and control
• Educational technology (e.g., virtual labs, e-learning, mobile apps) for Indigenous languages revitalization
• Indigenous online voices and political participation
• Ancestral languages and cultural heritage in online environments
• The inclusion of Indigenous viewpoints in developing new technologies
• Indigenous Futurism
• Digital art as resistance
• Innovative forms of digital oratory and storytelling

The Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien in den deutschsprachigen Ländern / GKS) focusing mainly on coordinating Canada-related academic activities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
GKS pursues its objectives especially by:

• sponsoring and supporting Canadian Studies in the broadest sense
• national as well as international multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary cooperation
• intensifying the academic and cultural relations between Canada and the German-speaking countries