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Inclusion in Modern Canada<O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P></DIV>
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Anne’s College, University of Oxford<O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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March 2009</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US
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lang=EN-US
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British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) is pleased to announce that the
2009 annual conference will take place on 28–30 March 2009. Proposals for
20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, are invited from
any single disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspective. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(98,0,98); LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Multidisciplinary
and interdisciplinary panel proposals, including those from postgraduate
students, are also welcome.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(98,0,98); LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Canada
is renowned for “incorpora[ting] an embrace of diversity into their national
mythologies” (Kernerman, 2005). This conference will consider a breadth of
subjects in relation to the construction, evolution, evaluation and
representation of modern Canada and its appreciation and recognition of matters
of cultural difference.<SPAN> </SPAN>Papers are welcomed from any
disciplinary approach and include those which offer an informed view of Canada
in comparative context. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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will be especially appreciated in the following areas</SPAN></B><B><SPAN
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</SPAN>multiculturalism, citizenship, policy, management</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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</SPAN>law, human rights, constitution, freedom</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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lang=EN-US
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</SPAN>societies, </SPAN><SPAN
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inclusion/exclusion</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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</SPAN>diversity, ethnicity, tolerance</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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</SPAN>cultures and literatures</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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lang=EN-US
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</SPAN>representation, identity, </SPAN><SPAN
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history, meaning and recognition <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>well being, the local and the global</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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</SPAN>metropolis, cities, towns and ruralis<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(98,0,98); FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Enquiries
and proposals to</SPAN></B><B><SPAN lang=EN-US
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</SPAN>Jodie Robson, BACS Administrator
<BR><SPAN>
</SPAN>31 Tavistock
Square<BR><SPAN>
</SPAN>London WC1H
9HA<BR><SPAN>
</SPAN>Tel: 44 (0) 20 7862 8687<SPAN> </SPAN>/<SPAN>
</SPAN>44 (0)
1289 387331 <BR><SPAN>
</SPAN>Email: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="">jodie.robson@canadian-studies.net</A> <BR><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Proposals (panel and individual) and
deadline</SPAN>:<O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></P>
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abstract(s) of 200-300 words; and brief CV(s) (must include title(s),
institutional affiliation(s) and address(es) by 30 November 2008. Submissions
will be acknowledged by email.</SPAN></P></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<BR>"Our
devices for mincing human flesh are part of an international machinery. The
whole society is militarized, the state of exception is made permanent, and the
repressive apparatus is endowed with hegemony by the turn of a screw in the
centers of the imperial system." Eduardo
Galeano<BR>________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>“Ladies, just a little more
virginity, if you don’t mind” (spoken to a motley collection of actresses
waiting to play ladies-in-waiting to a Queen).—Herbert Beerbohm Tree, in
Alexander Woollcott, Shouts and Murmurs
(1923).<BR>________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Denis
Salter<BR>McGill<BR>______</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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