We are thrilled to announce the new (and some re-newed!) members of our Executive: Asma Sayed (President), Jesse Arseneault (Secretary-Treasurer), Terri Tomsky (Prairies Representative), J. Coplen Rose (Atlantic Representative), and Sara Rozenberg (Graduate Representative). We also want to take a…
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ACLALS 2019 – Auckland, New Zealand “The Uncommon Commonwealth”
Many thanks to the brilliant organizers of this year’s triennial ACLALS conference “The Uncommon Commonwealth” held at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The conference committee included: Assoc Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh, Dr Claudia Marquis, Assoc Professor Paula Morris,…
CFP – Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy’s Writings
Call for Contributions Edited collection Critical perspectives on David Chariandy’s Writings Editor: Rodolphe Solbiac Université des Antilles (Presses Universitaires de l’Université des Antilles) The literary work of Canadian Caribbean writer David Chariandy is a resounding and growing success in…
Extended Deadline: Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror Deadline extended: July 1, 2019 This special issue will address Black Canadian and Indigenous work in / with the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror, both genre fiction proper and slipstream fiction.…
CFP – Image and Imagery: Im/migrant passages: Crossing Visual, Spatial and Textual Boundaries
Call for Contributions to an e-book – Image & Imagery: Im/migrant passages: Crossing Visual, Spatial and Textual Boundaries To emigrate is to leave, to immigrate is to arrive and stay, to migrate is to move, often as a result of…
EXTENDED DEADLINE CFP – Post/Colonial Ports: Place and Nonplace in the Ecotone
Call for Papers: Post/Colonial Ports: Place and Nonplace in the Ecotone Ecotones: Encounters, Crossings, and Communities (2015-2020): Ecotones #6 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada October 24-26, 2019 in partnership with EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), MIGRINTER (CNRS-Université de Poitiers) and La…
CFP – Post/Colonial Ports: Place and Nonplace in the Ecotone
Call for Papers: Post/Colonial Ports: Place and Nonplace in the Ecotone Ecotones: Encounters, Crossings, and Communities (2015-2020): Ecotones #6 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada October 24-26, 2019 in partnership with EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), MIGRINTER (CNRS-Université de Poitiers) and La…
CFP – Instituting, Forgetting, and Remembering: (Post-)Colonial Practices of Child Removal in Children’s Media
Call for Papers: Special Issue of International Research in Children’s Literature (http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ircl) Editors: Lies Wesseling (lies.wesseling@maastrichtuniversity.nl) and Mavis Reimer (m.reimer@uwinnipeg.ca) Abstracts due: 1 April 2019 The (forcible) relocation and re-education of Indigenous children at the peripheries of empire was a wide-spread…
CACLALS 2019 Keynote Speakers: Bios and Abstracts
We are delighted to announce our three distinguished keynote speakers for CACLALS 2019. Photo by Joy van Tiedemann David Chariandy is a Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University and a well-known scholar in the fields of…
Call for Papers
Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror This special issue will address Black Canadian and Indigenous work in / with the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror, both genre fiction proper and slipstream fiction. While there has been quite…
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