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<p>Hi Marlis,</p>
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<p>Thanks for sending this. We have received a cfp for a conference on a similar theme in Ireland in April, 2017, but this is the first time I've seen this one.</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> November 14, 2016 7:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> candrama@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Candrama] CFP_Britain, Canada, and the Arts: Cultural Exchange as Post-war Renewal</font>
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<div>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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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 style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">15-17 June 2017</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<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 style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<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 style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<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 style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
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<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Some indicative post-war cultural figures and areas of influence:</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Henry Moore and the Art Gallery of Ontario</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * John Grierson at the National Film Board</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Leonard Brockington and the CBC</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<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 style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Powys Thomas at the CBC, the Stratford Festival, and the National Theatre School of Canada</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Celia Franca, Gweneth Lloyd, and national ballet</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<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 style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Yousuf Karsh and the iconography of the mid-twentieth century</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Intellectual exchange and influence: Northrop Frye, Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, John Kenneth Galbraith</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Elizabeth Smart and the London literary scene</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Ronald Bryden and theatre criticism in London</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett: Canadian tours and compositions</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Glenn Gould as musical interpreter, recording artist, celebrity personality, documentarian</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Mordecai Richler, the cultural scene in London, and the dramatization of Anglophone Quebec</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<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 style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Other areas of exploration include (but are certainly not limited to):</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Quebec and ‘French Canada’ in the British artistic scene</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * The cultural presence and influence of the Governor General</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Publishers and publishing networks</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Newspapers, media magnates, and editorialists from Beaverbrook to Black</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Universities and the ‘modernisation’ of higher education</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Popular culture and popular music</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Cultural policy-making</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Traditions of humour and satire</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * ‘Distinct cultures’ within the larger nation</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Constructions of indigeneity and native culture</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * National culture as anti-Americanism</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Definitions of diversity, audience, and national identity</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * Architecture and urban development</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> * More recent and contemporary exchanges in literature, art, politics, theatre, film, design, television, and the media</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<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 href="mailto:canbritconference@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">canbritconference@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> by
1 December 2016.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
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<a href="http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/Britain-Canada-Arts" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/<wbr>Britain-Canada-Arts</a><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
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