[Candrama] CFP: Canadian Studies: Untold Stories of the Past 150 Years, University College Dublin

[Paul Halferty]

CANDRAMA colleagues and friends: please distribute this CFP far and wide!
And please take this opportunity to come to the a conference I'm
co-organizing with Dr. Linda Morra, Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies,
at University College Dublin, April 28-29, 2017.

*Abstracts for papers due November 1, 2016*

*CPF for **Untold Stories of the Past 150 Years*

Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation offers a pivotal moment not
only to re-evaluate the dominant narratives that helped to shape Canadian
national identity, but also to consider those narratives that, until
recently, have been suppressed or held considerably less attention in
public forums and debates. Many of the nation’s dominant stories and
foundational myths offer a particular vantage point about the country's
origins and development, which diminish or altogether marginalize other
narratives--even as the latter have been equally crucial to how Canada has
come to assume its current shape, politically, sociologically, and
otherwise. This conference offers an interdisciplinary forum for the
exploration of these untold stories, to nuance and complicate the record.
It will give space for the further consideration of narratives that have
only begun to attract national attention in the past couple of decades and
that have yet to receive critical attention. The objective of this
conference is therefore to consider what stories about Canadian history and
national identity remain untold or only partially told--and to consider why?

There are some surviving narratives, for example, about the arrival of the
Irish at Grosse Isle in the mid-nineteenth century (see, as one instance,
the work of Susanna Moodie), but what other lesser known storiesexist? Few
are also familiar with how members of the Mi'kmaq Warriors Society have
been arrested and incarcerated for their struggle against fracking, their
ongoing assertion and exercise of nationhood, and the repression they have
endured from police and courts. This conference will draw on stories such
as these.

Untold stories may encompass (and extend beyond) Irish emigration to
Canada and related nation-building narratives; the rise of Indigenous
communities that have demanded greater accountability in socio-political
interactions and the historical record; shifting gender politics that have
showcased how public, socio-political, and legal arenas must address
persistent inequities; women who need to be celebrated for their
contributions to Canadian history, culture, or policy; missing and murdered
Indigenous women; national policies that have a bearing on identity
politics; the resurgence of environmental concerns that are often bypassed
or repressed in favour of economic pursuits; socio-economic and class-based
disparities; narratives about those by or about refugees and their
descendants; histories of African-Canadians, including but not limited to
stories of settlement after the Underground Railroad; narratives of
diasporic formations in Canada; Japanese-Canadians, Italian-Canadian,
German-Canadian and other immigrants' experiences of internment during
Second World War; changes in government labour policy; competing regional
and national identities; and the realities of multiculturalism in Canada
and the history of immigration policy, in spite of the popular rhetoric
that may otherwise seem to suggest the nation offers an ideal of tolerance
towards differing races and ethnicities.

Abstracts for papers about such untold stories should be approximately 300
words in length and sent with 50-word biographical statements to the
current Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies, Dr. Linda Morra (
linda.morra at ucd.ie), and the Director of Canadian Studies, Dr. Paul
Halferty (paul.halferty at ucd.ie), by November 1, 2016, for a conference to
be held through UCD, Ireland, on April 28-29, 2017. Potential conference
presenters will be notified of their acceptance by mid-December, 2016.
-- 
Dr. J. Paul Halferty
Assistant Professor, Drama Studies
School of English, Drama and Film
C201 Newman Building
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
+353 (0)1 716 8373
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