Canadian Studies News and Notes

Canadian Studies News and Notes 1. "Boundaries," 3-5 May 1996, Edinburgh, Scotland. University of Edinburgh's Centre of Canadian Studies announces a cross-disciplinary conference on "Boundaries" - geographic, political and regional; historical evolution of boundaries; boundaries in the creative imagination; ethnic, linguistic and social; intergovernmental and cross-border relations; heartland, hinterland and borderlands theory. The conference will be a contribution to the 1995-96 theme ofthe University's International Social Sciences Institute: Boundaries and Identities. Contact: Centre of Canadian Studies, 21 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, Scotland. Fax: 011-131-662-1118. 2. Graduate Student Thesis/Dissertation Scholarship, 1996-97, International Council for Canadian Studies. The International Council for Canadian Studies has established five awards for graduate students to spend 4-6 weeks at a Canadian university other than their own to do research on their thesis or dissertation. The maximum value of the award is $3500. Applicants are to be nominated by their national CanadianStudies associations. The deadline for applications is 29 Febmary 1996. For information contact: Associate Professor Don Beer, President ACSANZ, Department of History, University of New 'England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia 3. Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland, Conference May 1996, Malahide, Ireland. The eighth biennial conference of the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland will be held in Malahide, near Dublin. Proposals for papers that are comparative or interdisciplinary in approach are preferred and will be grouped according to topic. Areas that might be covered include: Canada and the Famine, folk music in Ireland and Canada, culture, language and literature, and rural development in Canada and Ireland. 234 Contact: Dr. Jim Jackson or D.L. Parris, Department of French, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland fax: +353 1 671 7118 or e-mail: dparris@mail.tcd.ie. 4. Traduire la culture/ Translating Culture. 6 Colloque International organise par le Centre d'Etudes canadiennes de l'Universite de Paris III/Sorbonne Nouvelle aParis les 22, 23 et 24 mai 1996. La collaboration de deux centres de recherche - l'un aorientation traductologique, l'autre civilisationniste marquera la visee interdisciplinaire du colloque dont l'intitule, volontairement large, permettra des entrees multiples. L'accent pourra etre mis Sur les rapports interactifs entre,d'une part, le texte source ci le contexte culture! oo il a surgi, d'autre part, le texte traduit et le nouveau contexte culture! oo il s'insere. La traduction pourra etre etudiee comme agent-cle dans la reproduction de la culture mais aus_si comme un agent important dans m production de laculture. S'addresser aProf. Jean-Michel Lacroix. Directeur, Centre d'Etudes Canadiennes, Institut du Monde Anglophone, Universite de Paris ill, 5, rue de !'Ecole de Medecine, 75006, Paris. Tel: (33) l 43-2645-96, Fax: (33) 1 43-54-2513 , ou: Secretariat AFEC (Mlle Annick Monnerie) Tel: (33) 56-84-68--04, ou Fax: (33) 56-37-17-26. 5. "Canada and the Nordic Countries in Times of Reorientation," 15-18 August 1996, Aarhus, Denmark. Triennial conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies/Association nordique des etudes canadiennes. A call for papers will go out in the spring of 1996. A prelimin'.11"" date for titles of papers (plus a bnef description, 30 words maximum) is I Nov. 1995, and for abstracts 1 Apr. 1996. Inquiries about the conference should be directed to Jorn Carlsen, Dept. of 'English, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Fax: 45-8-619-1699. 6. Inuit Studies, 15-18 August 1996, St. John's, Newfoundland. The lOth Inuit Studies Conference will take place at the Memorial University of Newfoundland on Revue d'etudes canadiennes Vol. 30, No. 3 (Aurom11e 1995 Fall) the theme 'Traditional Knowledge and the Contemporary World." Contact Irene Mazurkewich, Dept. of Linguistics, Memorial University, St. John's, NF, AlB 3X9. Tel: 709-737-8299; fax: 709-7372548 ; e-mail: imamrk@kean.ucs.mun.ca. 7. "TradeMarks: Commerce, Culture and Identity After NAFfA," 18-20 October 1996, Toronto, Ontario. The Canadian Association for American Studies' annual conference will address the following questions: Does "culture" mean something different to Canadians and Americans? How does North American economic integration affect culture? How are Journal ofCanadian Studies Canadian cultural institutions affected? Is the concept of national culture still...