ACSN News archive 2008

REPORT Annual Symposium Royal Society of Canada (RSC)
“The Cultures of War and Peace”

Friday, November 14, 2008
Theatre Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau/Ottawa

Sherrill Grace (UBC) is president of RSC I for two years and organized this conference with the morning keynote speaker Romeo Dallaire, who passionately pleaded for Canada to participate in humanitarian aid all over the world as Canada is a rich country. It’s a moral duty to share with those who have nothing. Title of his presentation Are All Humans Human? The afternoon keynote was Jonathan Vance, professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture (Univ.of Western Ontario): Understanding the Motivation to Fight.

There were four panel discussions (with 3 speakers per panel!) on Living with War, Literary and Artistic Responses to War and Peace, The Lessons of History and Remembering and Representing War and Peace. Of special interest was Peter van Wyck’s paper on the Highway of the Atom, which starts in Port Radium, Great Bear Lake and the pros and cons of uranium ore. Sherrill Grace highlighted the history of uranium by discussing Peter Blow’s film Village of Widows and Marie Clement’s recent play Burning Vision. For a survey of other interesting papers, please see the detailed program.

The day started at 8.15 and closed at 18.15 with a premiere performance by a string quartet, students from the Dept. of Music, Univ. of Ottawa, who played composer Janet Danielson’s Let Us Wake From this Dream. The composer was inspired by the poem Nijmegen, Holland – February 1945 by Lt. Harry Percy Saunders, 1918-1945, who was her uncle.

At the induction ceremony 60 new Fellows were welcomed. Diana Brydon and Anne Wheeler (who made over 50 films/documentaries independently and Feature Films for NFB and CBC) I knew but I made the acquaintance of many others. At the banquet for over 400 people (in the big hall of the Museum of Civilization) awards of excellence were given to those who had achieved groundbreaking research.

Conny Steenman-Marcusse, who presented with Christl Verduyn on photojournalism during the Hunger Winter in Amsterdam Emmy Andriesse – Dutch Underground Photographer, with 14 photos from the Andriesse archives at the University of Leiden, NL.

SHIFT Festival Amsterdam-Toronto

SHIFT is a two-city festival devoted to music, film and literature from Canada and the Netherlands. Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam hosted the festival November 16-22, 2008. I could be present Friday night when Continuum, Toronto, played contemporary music in collaboration with composers who supplied music to 5 Canadian short films: Martin Arnold/Christina Battle “Behind the Shadows”, Richard Ayres/Guy Maddin “Glorious”, Oscar van Dillen/Clive Holden “2 Cameras@Sea, Rick Sacks/Vera Frenkel “Once near Water, Notes from the Scaffolding Archive”, Malcolm Goldstein/Daichi Saito “Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis. On Saturday there were two panel discussions with Canadian and Dutch authors. Host at the first session was the Canadian writer Richard Clewes who discussed literature with the Canadian authors Helen Humphreys and Andrew Pyper. The second session is going to be broadcast by CBC with Eleanor Wachtel as chair of the panel. Canadian writers Dionne Brand and Lewis DeSoto exchanged ideas on writers and culture with the Dutch writers Lieve Joris en Gerbrand Bakker. Unfortunately there was no time to engage the audience in the very interesting topics raised. Earlier in the week there were performances by the Asko/Schonberg ensemble with soprano Barbara Hannigan and the Quatuor Bozzini orchestra from Montreal. Films were shown by Canadian and Dutch filmmakers.

In February the SHIFT festival will take place at Harbour Front, Toronto, where one of the local organizers is Geoffrey E. Taylor, Director of Authors at Harbourfront Centre. For more information please contact me at conny.steenman.marcusse@gmail.com

Tekeningen Canadese Inuit in Volkenkundemuseum Leiden

Aansluitend bij de grote tentoonstelling ALS HET IJS SMELT zijn deze zomer portretten te zien van Canadese Inuit. Het gaat om werken in krijt en potlood op papier van de Nederlandse kunstenares Lily Eversdijk Smulders (1903-1994). Op zoek naar de ‘ouderwetse, romantische Eskimo’ kwam Lily Eversdijk Smulders in 1969 terecht bij de Inuit in Canada. Daar bleek haar al gauw dat het traditionele leven van de Inuit enorm was veranderd. Ze zou later nog twee reizen naar de Inuit ondernemen, in 1970 en 1971. Haar verblijf bij de Inuit leverde tientallen portretten op van mannen, vrouwen en kinderen. Deze tentoonstelling is mede mogelijk gemaakt met de hulp van Stichting Lily.

Seminar at the University of Groningen:
Re-Exploring Canadian Space / Redécouvrir l’espace canadien

Groningen, the Netherlands, November 26-28, 2008

Final program: Download Program Seminar at the University of Groningen

Key-note speaker Mark Kingwell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializing in political theory and aesthetics, and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine in New York. He is the author of twelve books of political and cultural theory, among them the national bestsellers Better Living (1998), The World We Want (2000), and Concrete Reveries (2008) which examines consciousness as a function of place. His recent books on architecture and art are Nearest Thing to Heaven (2006) and Opening Gambits (2008). His writing has appeared in diverse publications, including the Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Forum, Philosophy and Social Criticism, the Harvard Design Magazine, the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, American Scholar, Harper's, the New York Times, the Toronto Star, Adbusters,Queen's Quarterly, and the Globe and Mail. Kingwell has lectured to academic and popular audiences in Canada, the U.S., Europe, and Australia. He is the recipient of the Spitz Prize for political theory, National Magazine Awards for both essays and columns, and an honorary doctorate from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design for contributions to theory and criticism.

The Idea of North Revisited
Glenn Gould's December 1967 radio documentary "The Idea of North", the first part of the so-called Solitude Trilogy, was an attempt to defend the thesis that, when people go north, they "become philosophers". Gould contended, via the then-innovative form he called "contrapuntal radio", that the solitude and isolation of the Canadian north produce forms of reflection that are impossible in the cities housing most of the country's population. On this view, thought is a function of latitude.
In these remarks I will revisit this provocative claim, but now against a background of a Canada more thoroughly urban and un-North than ever. My larger aim is to examine more rigorously the proposed general connection between place and consciousness. Is it impossible to think at some latitudes? Must we go north to become philosophers?

Key-note speaker Andrea Mandel-Campbell is a contributing editor at CTV's Business News Network and the author of the two-time award-nominated, Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson, which takes a penetrating and unapologetic look at why Canadian companies fail to go global and why they must. A veteran business journalist, Mandel-Campbell spent close to a decade as a foreign correspondent in Latin America, where she was the Mexico bureau chief for London?s Financial Times as well as working for Business Week magazine in Argentina. In Canada, she worked as a feature writer for the National Post, specializing in global competitiveness issues. In 2006 Mandel-Campbell won a media fellowship from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada to travel to China and write about Canada-China business ties for Maclean's magazine. She is also an executive director of the Canada Council for the Americas.

Canada: Why Canadians drink Mexican Beer
Canada occupies a unique, if not conflicted, space in the global economy: an unsung success story that is not nearly as successful as it might be, a rich country that could be so much richer. Canada's wealth of natural resources, small population and proximity to the US has allowed it to coast as a component nation and no logo supplier of generic product. But its good fortune is also the greatest threat to Canada becoming a hollowed out warehouse to the world. Canada is better positioned than most to confront the challenges of a changing global economy, but will its middle-of-the-road mentality, fractious federalism and reactive nature allow it to make the necessary, bold decisions?

SHIFT Festival
(muziek, film en literatuur uit Canada en Nederland)

Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam
18 t/m 22 november 2008

SHIFT is een dubbelfestival gewijd aan muziek, film, literatuur en beeldende kunst uit Canada en Nederland. Het festival start in november 2008 in het Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, waarna het in februari 2009 een vervolg krijgt in Toronto, Canada.

In vier concerten spelen vooraanstaande Canadese en Nederlandse ensembles werk van Canadese en Nederlandse hedendaagse componisten. Na afloop van het concert op dinsdag 18 en woensdag 19 november kunt u films bekijken van Canadese en Nederlandse cineasten. Schrijvers uit beide landen zijn te gast tijdens een middag over nieuwe Canadese en Nederlandse literatuur (zaterdag 22 november).

Een festival-passepartout kost € 87,00 en is te koop bij de kassa. De passepartout is niet online te bestellen.

Voor meer informatie en volledig programma zie www.muziekgebouw.nl

Call for Proposals for the 20th Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS)

San Diego, California
November 18-22, 2009.

As Chair of the Program Committee I would encourage you to circulate the Call among fellow scholars of Canada in the Netherlands. We would very much like to have you and your colleagues with us in California next year. We anticipate that it will be one of ACSUS´s most exciting gatherings given the breadth of topics to be covered, the quality of the papers being presented and the wonderful location in which we will find ourselves.

The program has been designed to incorporate the insights of several different academic disciplines as well as to address important interdisciplinary concerns. We have also sought to provide opportunities for comparative analysis of Canadian themes. Scholars who work on topics related to Canada from around the world will be represented. We hope that you will be one of these by either submitting your own individual proposal or a panel with colleagues from the Netherlands. A special section entitled "Canada in Comparative Perspective" has been added to the program to provide additional opportunities to hear from Canadianists outside of North America.

Please note that the suggested deadline for submission of paper or panel/workshop proposals is quickly approaching-November 20, 2008. Please contact me or David Archibald if you have any questions regarding the conference.

We look forward to seeing you in San Diego!

Sincerely yours,
Douglas C. Nord
Professor of Political Science and
Director, Center for International Studies
Western Washington University

News from the ICCS

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Ertler was elected ICCS President Elect at the ICCS Annual General Assembly on May 31, in Ottawa.

Prof. Dr. Ertler, representing the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS), is professor at the Institut fur Romanistik, Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz, in Graz, Austria. For his biography see: http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/staff/ertler/site.php?show=4

At the ICCS Annual General Assembly on May 30, in Ottawa, the new Strategic Plan 2008-2013 was adopted. The plan proposes new directions for the ICCS and its members that emphasize the potential to meet the changes taking place within the global academic communities and the political climate currently in place in Canada. The Strategic Plan utilizes the four themes retained for the Edmonton Forum: Research, Teaching, Rejuvenation and Outreach. Together these constitute the pillars of the Strategic Plan for 2008-2013. Although many of the actions are developed and presented to be undertaken by the Board of Directors and the secretariat of the ICCS, it is important to note that all of the stakeholders involved in the study of Canada, which include the ICCS secretariat, ICCS Executive Committee, ICCS Board of Directors, Canadian Studies Associations Executive bodies, Canadianists, Canadian Studies Networks, Canadian Studies Centers, DFAIT, Canadian missions, universities and educational organisations, also play a significant role in supporting and facilitating the actions presented in ICCS 2008-2013 Strategic Plan. For further information on the Strategic Plan 2008-2013 see the ICCS website as of September 2008

At the ICCS Annual General Assembly on May 31, in Ottawa, a new ICCS program was established, i.e. the ICCS Young Scholars Research Seminar. Starting in 2009, ICCS will organize on a biennial basis the ICCS Young Scholars Research Seminar. The seminar, which will generally take place in Ottawa over a period of approximately one week, aims to bring together bright young students who are researching for a doctorate on a Canadian subject. During the seminar the young scholars will present and discuss their research finding in a conference setting. The ICCS Young Scholars Research Seminar focuses on traditional Canadian Studies issues and on issues of major importance to Canada. While academic excellence is one of the aims of the seminar, participation will also allow young international canadianists to enhance their understanding of Canada and Canadian society. It will provide a forum for participants to communicate their insights on Canada to a wider audience. Details of the program will be available on the ICCS website as of September 2008.
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MESEA Literary Readings

Thursday, June 26, 2008
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Location: Literary Cafe "De Burcht," Burgsteeg 14, Leiden

As part of the conference activities, we invite all participants to a special evening of poetry and fiction by MESEA members. Our guest readers are Gordon Henry, Aritha van Herk, Isabel Hoving, and Marie-Helene Laforest.

Poet and novelist Gordon Henry is an enrolled member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota. An Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Michigan State University, he remains rooted in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. In 2006 he was appointed Senior Editor of the American Indian Studies Series at Michigan State University Press. He is also Director of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Michigan State. His first novel, The Light People, won an American Book Award in 1995 and has recently been reissued from Michigan State University Press. Henry's poetry and fiction is anthologized in various collections including Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back, Earth Song, Sky Spirit and Nothing But the Truth.

Aritha van Herk, whose parents emigrated from the Netherlands to Canada, was born in central Alberta, Canada, read every book in the library at Camrose, and studied at the University of Alberta. She first rose to international literary prominence with the publication of Judith, which received the Seal First Novel Award and which was published in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. Her other books include The Tent Peg; No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey; Places Far From Ellesmere; Restlessness; In Visible Ink and A Frozen Tongue. Her most recent expedition into time and words is Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta, which won the Grant McEwan Author's Award. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Professor who teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. First and foremost, however, she is a writer who loves stories.

Isabel Hoving is affiliated with the Department of Literary Studies of Leiden University, where she teaches postcolonial theory, cultural analysis, Caribbean literature, Dutch multiculturalism, literary theory, gender studies and queer studies. Apart from her work as a teacher and researcher, she is member of the editorial board of the international book series Thamyris: Intersecting. In response to a happy urge that did not feel like a midlife crisis at all, she took up creative writing again at the turn of the century. Her first novel, The Dream Merchant, a cross-over novel on cultural memory, multiculturalism, and greed, appeared in 2002 with Querido, Amsterdam, and was awarded the Golden Kiss Award 2003 (Best Book for Young People over 12). It was translated into several languages. Hoving’s second novel will be published next year by Querido.

Marie-Helene Laforest was born in Haiti, grew up in New York and now is a professor of Anglophone literatures at the University of Naples. She is the author of Diasporic Encounters: Remapping the Caribbean and is currently writing a book on Derek Walcott’s Omeros. A James Michener fellow in creative writing, she also writes fiction. Her work has appeared in several periodicals and has been anthologized in Streetlights. The Butterfly's Way: Foreign Shores (2006) is her first book of fiction.

CALL FOR PAPERS : 17th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies 2008

The Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland is organizing the 17th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies 2008.

The seminar will be held at University College Dublin, starting at 3. p.m. on Thursday 23 October, and ending at midday on Saturday 25 October.

European students working on masters or doctoral theses in Canadian Studies are invited to present their current research and to exchange ideas with students from other countries.

The seminar will be organized in a series of workshops conducted by established European or Canadian scholars in the field of Canadian Studies. Contributions can be in either English or French, and should not exceed 15-20 minutes. It is planned to publish the best papers.

Further details:

How to apply?
Anyone interested in participating should submit an abstract (1-2 pages) indicating the nature and topic of their research and outlining the nature of their findings, plus a short c.v. Papers will be selected on the basis of the abstract. Invitations to participate will be sent out as soon as possible after the selection process is over.

Official languages: English and French
Deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2008; address - see below
Number of students admitted: 30

Fees
A nominal fee of 55 euros will be used to defray organization and accommodation expenses.

Travel costs: please apply to your university or your national Association for Canadian Studies. Students from Central Europe needing assistance should indicate this in their application.

Accommodation: Accommodation and meals will be paid for by the European Network for Canadian Studies and Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland. Students will be lodged at a hotel for the nights of October 23rd and 24th (but may book additional nights accomodation, at a reduced rate, if desired)

Address:
Professor Vera Regan
University College Dublin
UCD School of Languages and Literatures
Belfield, Dublin 4; Ireland

vera.regan@ucd.ie www.ucd.ie/sllf/Staff/Regan_Vera_profile.html

Seminar at the University of Gronignen:
Re-Exploring Canadian Space / Redécouvrir l’espace canadien

Groningen, the Netherlands, November 26-28, 2008

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space, everything else is opinion (Democritus).

Keynote speakers: Andrea Mandel Campbell and Mark Kingwell.

The Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Groningen and the Association for Canadian Studies in the Netherlands (ACSN) are pleased to announce that on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Canadian Studies Centre an international and multidisciplinary conference will be held in Groningen.

The conference seeks to examine and explore the various issues surrounding the idea of space in the Canadian studies context. The study of space has been one of the central themes around which the Centre has developed its activities. Among other areas, its members have published extensively on identity and space, frontiers and space, gender and space, colonial history and space, Arctic space and social change and space.

The purpose of the conference is to explore questions that will extend current knowledge and foster new ideas particularly in the realm of contemporary debates and developments. How is Canadian space affected by global climate change, and vice versa? How is Canada’s space protected, and influenced by security issues? How are the redistribution of land and new perspectives on space related? How do the nation’s multiple voices, for example those with ethnic or indigenous backgrounds, share Canada’s space? How are cultural activities, filmic and literary connotations on space embraced in Canada?

MESEA conference 2008: "Migration Matters"

Leiden, the Netherlands, June 25-28, 2008

Keynote speakers: Han Entzinger, University of Rotterdam, Lubaina Himid, University of Central Lancashire, Matthew Jacobson, Yale University and Saskia Sassen, Columbia University and London School of Economics

MESEA - The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas - was founded in response to the challenge of ethnic studies in a time of increasing globalization to provide an international forum for interdisciplinary discussion on multi-ethnic studies. The Society promotes the study of the ethnic cultures of Europe and the Americas in their circum-Atlantic relations from a transdisciplinary literary, historical and cultural studies perspective. The society acts as a forum for cooperation between universities, political institutions, and ethnic communities as well as supports the scholarly and cultural exchange between them in order to further intercultural understanding.

For more information and/or application forms please visit: www.mesea.org

New online Research Guide Available

The R.P. Bell Library and the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University announce he launch of a web-based research guide on Canadian political life and government. The purpose of this guide is to introduce students, researchers, and others interested in Canadian government and politics to the major sources of information for research in these fields. the guide provides connections to primary source and addresses such topics as:
- political party financing
- immigration
- international relations
- trade
- women in politics
-defense policy, and
- local government

Additional topics are planned. This project was made possible through the generous support of the Crabtree Foundation. The new site is open to the public, students, faculty, researches and interested parties at:
www.mta.ca/library/govt&politics/main/home.html

The R.P. Bell Library and the Centre for Canadian Studies are excited to see the fruition of this project, which they believe will greatly faciliate research for members of both wider and Mount Allison community. The importance of government and politics in Canadian life means that this site can become a starting point for anyone interested in Canada, whether for research or public information.

Understanding Canada: Canadian Studies

The Understanding Canada Program has a positive influence on the promotion of Canada's interests in the world. The objective of the program is to develop a greater knowledge and understanding of Canada, its values and its culture among scholars and other influential groups abroad. The program is intended for foreign academics who want to study about or conduct research on Canada. Some components of the program are also available to promote teaching and publications about Canada in various disciplines.

For more information please visit:
Understanding Canada: Canadian Studies

International Conference: "Rouen-Québec, four centuries of relationship: history and narration"

Université de Rouen, IPEC, November 13-14, 2008

Call for Papers

On its 25th anniversary, the Multidisciplinary Institute of Canadian Studies of the University of Rouen (IPEC) proposes to organize a two-day international conference on the special relations linking Rouen and Quebec City, Normandy and Quebec, from a historical and cultural point of view.

The construction of European houses at Tadoussac, Port-Royal and Quebec, especially the Habitation of 1608, was the start of a French post which was to give rise to a colony on American land. The conference proposes to discuss those events which led to economic, geographical and ethnographic discoveries as well as a literary and artistic tradition still going on today. It will extend to the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Quebec, the mythification referring to this foundation and historical and various other ways of presenting the beginnings of Canada. We welcome papers bearing on all aspects and expressions of this complex adventure, and especially on the relationship sustained for four centuries between Rouen, the ecclesiastical and commercal seat of the colonial enterprise, and Quebec, the meeting plac e of two civilizations.

This conference will also host meetings with writers and artists from either side of the Atlantic, cultural events depending on the programme of local cultural institutions and a round table on cultural policies on the two cities/regions. An excursion will be proposed to participants on November 15, 2008.

The languages of the conference will be English and French.
Proposals for 20-minute papers (a 500-word abstract with a brief bio-bibliographical note and complete references with postal and email addresses) should be sent by email only to ipec@univ-rouen.fr by June 15, 2008.

Virtual Canadian Studies (VCS)

The Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking countries (GKS) would like to draw your attention to our approved Virtual Canadian Studies (VCS) Programme which provides the opportunity to study Canada from your desk at home.

The VCS-programme offers several long distance e-learning courses on Canadian-English Literature, Canadian History, Canadian Geography and the Quebecois Language. In the summer term 2008 the following 2 courses will take place:
1) "Introduction to English-Canadian Literature"
starting mid-April 2008 (Instructor: Lutz Schowalter, University of Trier)
2) "Les varitetes du francais canadien"
starting Thur., April 17, 2008 (Instructor : Edith Szlezek, University of Regensburg)

A detailed programme and more information about registration and requirements can be found on the GKS-Homepage under:
http://www.kanada-studien.de/relaunch/typo3/start/index.php?id=70.

For further information you can also contact
Annekatrin Metz (metzanne@uni-trier.de) or
Ulrike Gerhard (Ulrike.gerhard@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de).

The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry by Martin Genetsch

NOW AVAILABLE
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The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry by Martin Genetsch

Arguing that globalization is no longer a term defining only international cash flow but also includes the flow and exchange of cultures, this book examines the works of three major Canadian writers of South Asian origin and born in three different parts of the world - MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry.

To demonstrate the complex, textured identities of his authors of choice, Martin Genetsch shows that these and other writers not only negotiate their Canadian identities but also explore themselves in the cultures, histories, and geographical locations they come from. The resultis a fine study of an important and defining aspect of Canadian literature.

Martin Genetsch has studied German, English, and Media Studies in Germany, England, and Canada. His research interests include cultural theory, postcolonial literature, Shakespeare, and poetry. Currently he teaches Shakespeare at the University of Trier, and English and German to highly gifted children at a secondary school in Germany. He has published papers on postcolonial literatures, cultural theory, popular culture, and didactic issues in foreign language teaching.

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EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN

EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN is premiering in Belgium at the Cinema Zed on March 20th, 22nd and 25th.

EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN written by Canadian writer Douglas Coupland. Douglas is best known for his books Generation X, All Families Are Psychotic, JPod and most recently The Gum Thief.

The support from the friendly faces of expats, fellow Canadians and their Belgium friends would be very welcomed.

Interdisciplinary Summer School in Marburg

Interdisciplinary Summer School 2008 for PhD students from June 14th - 27th at Marburg University/Germany. This year´s program focuses on "Images of Human Nature".

As our Summer School Program is sponsered by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), we can offer foreign participants financial support and travel allowances. Please note that the application deadline is March 28th.

Summer School
Promotionskolleg für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Wilhelm-Röpke-Str. 6 E, Zi 209
35032 Marburg

Tel.: +49 (0) 6421/28-26264
Fax: +49 (0) 6421/28-26099
info@summerschool-marburg.de
http://www.summerschool-marburg.de
http://www.uni-marburg.de/gsw-promotionskolleg

International Summer School in Seggau Castle

13 - 27 July, 2008, Seggau Castle, Austria

This summer school project is an Utrecht Network initiative and will be carried out by the University of Graz, represented by the Center for the Study of the Americas (C.SAS) in cooperation with the Vice Rectorate for International Relations. The Summer School will offer a platform for students and teachers from international universities who will engage in the interdisciplinary analysis of new conceptual approaches for a redefinition of the Americas in times of worldwide globalization, where geopolitical boundaries no longer suffice to mark a clear difference between different cultures and concepts of national identities. The courses will offer an insight into the discursive and symbolic constructions of the Americas seen from the vantage point of politics, history, law, literature and culture. Special attention will be paid to processes such as migration, mutual borrowing, hybridization and the cultural changes provoked by them. The underlying issue of our approach will be the feasibility of an inter-American identity.
* Two-week Summer University
* for 50 students and 22 teachers.
* 5 parallel seminar modules, excursion to Graz, various evening activities
* Accreditation via ECTS - credits (5 ECTS for participation+ final exam+ seminar paper)

Information to the Summer School and application details can be found under:
http://www.uni-graz.at/zas1www/zas1www_summer_school1.htm

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