The following call for papers for a Conference on Editorial Problems, to be held at the University of Toronto on 23-24 October 2010, appears on the Editing Modernism in Canada Project website: The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence in transnational modernist studies and the emergence of a new generation of scholars working on [...]

The expansion of the British and American empires during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history. Irish and Scots migrants were major participants in this process. Their experiences have traditionally been framed in terms of push-pull factors, of exile, struggle, opportunity, and acculturation. But there is another side to [...]

An Interdisciplinary, International Conference, Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta, 30 September – 3 October 2010 Please note: the deadline for proposals has been extended to 29 March 2010 The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC, pronounced “quirk”) will provide a digital platform for new collaborations in humanities research. Supporting team-based scholarship, digitization and editing, and [...]

Please note that the deadline to submit to next year’s ACCUTE panels (including the member-organized panels advertised in an earlier post) has been extended till 20 November 2009.

Special issue of Canadian Literature guest edited by Thomas Hodd and Janice Fiamengo (deadline: 1 June 2011) In her Foreword to Recalling Early Canada (2004), Carole Gerson laments that “we do not have many wide-ranging volumes of critical studies dedicated to early Canadian literary culture” (ix). Indeed, much of the important scholarly work on early [...]

The following Calls for Papers, which could all dovetail with the study of Early Canadian Literature, appear in the September 2010 newsletter of ACCUTE. The deadline for all of these is 15 November 2009. You must be a current member of ACCUTE to submit to these sessions. Beyond Emily Montague: Encountering Canada in the Eighteenth [...]

Adolescence in Canadian Literature / L’adolescence dans la littérature canadienne (deadline: 30 April 2010) La version française suivra. Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, published at the University of New Brunswick since 1975, invites submissions to a special issue focusing on depictions of adolescence in Canadian literature, to be edited by Jennifer [...]

L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature 9th International Conference University of Prince Edward Island 23-27 June 2010 At the ninth biennial conference hosted by the L.M. Montgomery Institute (University of Prince Edward Island), we invite you to consider L.M. Montgomery and the matter of nature. In recent years, the matter of nature has been [...]

2010 Canadian Literature Symposium, University of Ottawa Keynote speakers: D.M.R. Bentley, Professor of English, University of Western Ontario; Carole Gerson, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University http://www.canlit-symposium.ca/ Students and teachers of Canadian literature in English are invited to a symposium at the University of Ottawa to share their scholarship on early Canadian writers, especially to [...]

McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Confirmed Keynotes: Ann Cvetkovich (An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures), Angela Grauerholz (At Work and Play: A Web Experimentation), Ben Highmore (The Everyday Life Reader; Everyday Life and Cultural Theory), Michael O’Driscoll (The Event of the Archive) This conference will bring together academics, advocates, artists, and [...]