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FYI... just received this from a UK colleague. I don't recall seeing
it on Candrama before - apologies if it has and I just missed it.<br>
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Best,<br>
Marlis<br>
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">***DEADLINE
EXTENDED</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Britain, Canada,
and the Arts: Cultural Exchange as Post-war Renewal</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">15-17 June 2017</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Papers are
invited for a major international, interdisciplinary
conference to be held at Senate House, London, in
collaboration with the School of English, Communication and
Philosophy (Cardiff University) and the University of
Westminster. Coinciding with and celebrating the 150th
anniversary of Canadian Confederation, this conference will
focus on the strong culture of artistic exchange, influence,
and dialogue between Canada and Britain, with a particular
but not exclusive emphasis on the decades after World War
II.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">The immediate
post-war decades saw both countries look to the arts and
cultural institutions as a means to address and redress
contemporary post-war realities. Central to the concerns of
the moment was the increasing emergence of the United States
as a dominant cultural as well as political power. In 1951,
the Massey Commission gave formal voice in Canada to a
growing instinct, amongst both artists and politicians,
simultaneously to recognize a national tradition of cultural
excellence and to encourage its development and perpetuation
through national institutions. This moment complemented a
similar post-war engagement with social and cultural renewal
in Britain that was in many respects formalized through the
establishment of the Arts Council of Great Britain. It was
further developed in the founding of such cultural
institutions as the Royal Opera, Sadler’s Wells Ballet, the
Design Council and later the National Theatre, and in the
diversity and expansion of television and film.</span><br
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<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">While these
various initiatives were often instigated by a strong
national if not nationalist instinct, they were also
informed by an established dynamic of social, political, and
cultural dialogue. In the years before the war, that dynamic
had been marked primarily by the prominent, indisputably
anglophile voices of such influential Canadians in Britain
as Beverly Baxter and Lord Beaverbrook. In English-speaking
Canada, an established recognition of Britain as a dominant,
if not originating, influence on definitions of cultural
excellence continued to predominate. In the years following
the war, however, that dynamic was to change, and an
increased movement of artists, intellectuals, and artistic
policy-makers between the two countries saw the reciprocal
development of an emphatically modern, confident, and
progressive definition of contemporary cultural activity.</span><br
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<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">This conference
aims to expose and explore the breadth of this exchange of
social and cultural ideals, artistic talent, intellectual
traditions, and aesthetic formulations. We invite papers
from a variety of critical and disciplinary perspectives --
and particularly encourage contributions from scholars and
practitioners working in theatre, history, literature,
politics, music, film and television, cultural studies,
design, and visual art.</span><br
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<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Some indicative
post-war cultural figures and areas of influence:</span><br
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<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Henry Moore
and the Art Gallery of Ontario</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * John
Grierson at the National Film Board</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Leonard
Brockington and the CBC</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Sydney
Newman, Alvin Rakoff and British and Canadian television
drama</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Tyrone
Guthrie, Barry Morse, Tanya Moiseiwitch, Alec Guinness,
Maggie Smith, John Neville, Christopher Newton, Robin
Phillips, Barry Morse, Brian Bedford, Christopher Plummer,
Donald Sutherland, and others: developments in staging,
acting, repertoire, and theatre-design at the Stratford
Festival, the Shaw Festival, the Old Vic, the Chichester
Festival Theatre, the National Theatre</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Powys
Thomas at the CBC, the Stratford Festival, and the National
Theatre School of Canada</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Celia
Franca, Gweneth Lloyd, and national ballet</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Robertson
Davies as novelist, actor, cultural critic in Britain and
Canada; at the Stratford Festival; at the University of
Toronto’s Massey College</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Yousuf
Karsh and the iconography of the mid-twentieth century</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> *
Intellectual exchange and influence: Northrop Frye, Harold
Innis, Marshall McLuhan, John Kenneth Galbraith</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Elizabeth
Smart and the London literary scene</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Ronald
Bryden and theatre criticism in London</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Benjamin
Britten and Michael Tippett: Canadian tours and compositions</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Glenn Gould
as musical interpreter, recording artist, celebrity
personality, documentarian</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Mordecai
Richler, the cultural scene in London, and the dramatization
of Anglophone Quebec</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Mazo de la
Roche and Lucy Maud Montgomery: literary influence and
adaptations</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Ben Wicks
as cartoonist, journalist, and post-war memoirist</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Other areas of
exploration include (but are certainly not limited to):</span><br
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<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Quebec and
‘French Canada’ in the British artistic scene</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * The
cultural presence and influence of the Governor General</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Publishers
and publishing networks</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Newspapers,
media magnates, and editorialists from Beaverbrook to Black</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> *
Universities and the ‘modernisation’ of higher education</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Popular
culture and popular music</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Cultural
policy-making</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Traditions
of humour and satire</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * ‘Distinct
cultures’ within the larger nation</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> *
Constructions of indigeneity and native culture</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * National
culture as anti-Americanism</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Definitions
of diversity, audience, and national identity</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> *
Architecture and urban development</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * More recent
and contemporary exchanges in literature, art, politics,
theatre, film, design, television, and the media</span><br
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Proposals (max.
250 words) for papers of 20 minutes can be sent to the
organizers, Irene Morra (Cardiff University) and John Wyver
(University of Westminster), at </span><a
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style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> by 1 December 2016.</span><br
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