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Deadline: October 2, 2025 Location: Palais des congrès de Montréal Date: February 26 – March 1, 2026 Organizers: Cheryl Lousley and Zishad Lak Abstract: Building on a stimulating seminar at ACLA 2024, and amidst dramatically shifting geopolitical contexts, this seminar will probe methods of reading that illuminate and disrupt escalating climate change and ecological loss by…
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In this blog post, Zahra and David explore the complexities of interdisciplinary research within the context of the Anthropocene, drawing on their experiences in the SGSAH EARTH Scholarship Programme. They reflect on the challenges of foregrounding difference without falling into generalization, romanticisation, or appropriation. Zahra discusses shelter-making practices among the Bakhtiari people of Iran, while…
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Join featured writer Renae Watchman on Thursday, July 17 at 6:00 p.m. Alaska Time for Live from Storyknife, along with five other incredible writers from this July’s cohort of writers-in-residence. The session will be live on Zoom, and a recording will be posted on the Storyknife page after the event. Renae Watchman (Diné or Navajo) is originally from…
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Deadline: August 15, 2025 (Pacific Time) Submission length: 7,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes) in either English or French Guest Editors: Zishad Lak (Trent University), Cheryl Lousley (Lakehead University), Paul Barrett (University of Guelph), Cheryl Cowdy (York University) Canadian fiction, film, and television increasingly abound with representations of suburban life, such as Sort Of, co-created by and starring…
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STUDIES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE—NEW ISSUE PUBLISHED (VOL 18, NO. 4) The issue is titled “Vol. 18 No. 4 (2024): Reckoning, Repairing, Reworlding: The (In)humanities, Artistic Practices, and Planetary Crisis” and is guest edited by The Reckoning, Repairing, and Reworlding Collective (Jesse Arsenault, Tayah Clarke, Linzey Corridon, Feisal Kirumira, Susie O’Brien, Jane Sewali-Kirumira, Susan Spearey (co-ordinating editor), Helene…
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Suburb Nation: Canadian Literature & Suburban Spaces is a series of short papers discussing how Canadian literature reflects and shapes our understanding of suburban life. This in-person event will take place at the University of Guelph’s THINC Lab (second floor of McLaughlin Library), where we’ll discuss contemporary Canadian literature in relation to environment, race, and settler…
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Susie O’Brien’s What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal (McGill-Queen’s University Press, May 2024) exposes the complexities and limits of resilience and questions the concept of resilience, highlighting how Black and Indigenous novelists can offer different decolonial ways of thinking about and with resilience to imagine things “otherwise.”
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When: May 7, 2024 – 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Where: McMaster University, ISS Ceremonial Room – LRW 1811 Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to Denèndeh (University of Regina Press, May 2024) introduces, synthesizes, and analyzes traditional stories by Diné and Dene storytellers in orature and film. The book conceptualizes narrative autonomy as hane’tonomy and visual…
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If Canada is a suburban nation, what are its suburban stories? What dreams and diasporas land immigrant communities in suburbs?
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This three-day panel at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) is on methods of reading literary texts that illuminate the racialized dimensions of the environment and climate change.
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This roundtable discussion will explore the potentials and limits of Song’s provocative approach to race, ecology, and lyric.
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Tania Aguila-Way presents at the Interdisciplinary Colloquium at the University of Toronto on Thursday, November 30, 2023, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
