TransCanada Three will be organized around a set of related keywords to broaden and strengthen the discursive flows produced in the previous TransCanada conferences. It will pay explicit attention to literature, arts, and the media, but also to the educational, political, cultural, and physical ecologies that have helped, or may in the future help, Canada to renew itself and to embrace its emergent as well as its traditional selves. We would like to invite proposals that address the following keywords:
– First Nations: Treaty Rights and Justice in the Anglo-French history of Canada
– Acadia: Exile and Return
– Diasporas, Transnationalism / Transculturalism
– Radical and Transformative Methodologies and Pedagogies
– Hemispheric Studies
– Affective Geographies
– Ecology and Mobility
Please submit proposals of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers for the research sessions that address the above themes or submit, along with other scholars, joint proposal/s for particular panels under the central keywords listed above. We also welcome proposals for artistic presentations (video, short film, photography, etc.) that can be showcased during the conference.
TransCanada Three will again feature a special doctoral students’ plenary session. Doctoral students who would like to be considered for this session should include a one-page dissertation abstract with their proposal.
Deadline for abstracts: August 15, 2008 / Notification of acceptance: Late October 2008.
Submission address: transcan@utoronto.ca , or
TransCanada Three, TransCanada Institute, 9 University Avenue East University of Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 1M8
TC3 Organizing Committee: Co-chairs Smaro Kamboureli (U Guelph) & Christl Verduyn (Mount Allison U), John Corr, Paul Danyluk, Kit Dobson, Jade Ferguson, Len Findlay, Cory Lavender, Ashok Mathur, Andrew Nurse, Robert Zacharias