Canadian Studies News and Notes

Canadian Studies News and Notes 1. Mount Allison University and the Canadian Methodist Historical Society are co-hosting a conference, The Contribution of Methodism to Atlantic Canada, to be held at Mount Allison in Sackville, New Brunswick, October 6-8, 1989. Keynote speakers are Sir Owen Chadwick of Cambridge University and Dr. John Webster Grant, formerly of Emmanuel College, Toronto. For further information, contact: Department of Religious Studies, Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B., EOA 3CO, Canada. 2. The Centre of Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh announces a one-day seminar entitled "British Research on Hamilton, Ontario," to be held Monday, May 8, 1989. This seminar follows immediately upon the Centre's major spring conference, The NineteenthCentury Canadian City: Internal Change and External Links, May 4-7, 1989. Topics for the major conference include: the city as an economi~ and social entity; political and economic change - including urban reform, home ownership and housing tenure; gender and family relations in an urban context; the arts and cultural developments viewed from an urban perspective; the emergence and development of urban systems; the urban centre and its rural counterpart. For information contact: Judith P. Wiesinger, Centre of Canadian Studies, 21 George Square, Edinburgh , Scotland. EH8 9LD. Electronic mail: CCS@UK.AC.ED. GEOVAX. 3. The Canadian Aviation Historical Society is offering the fourth Silver Dart Aviation History Award for 180 the best original essay on Canadian aviation history. Papers must be received by the Award Chairman by March 15, 1989. Further information on the Award is available by writing to: Dr. David Neufeld, Chairman, The Silver Dart Aviation History Award, 111 Buxton Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T OHl. 4. Simon Fraser University will host a Conference on Exploration and Discovery, April 17-19, 1992, to commemorate the arrival of Captain George Vancouver on the Pacific Coast of North America in 1792. Presentations are invited in areas of new research on social, cultural, economic , scientific , technological, and literary aspects of exploration and discovery in the sixteenth , seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, especially concerning the North Pacific. Those interested in participating should send summaries (100-200 words) of their prospective papers, along with a brief vitae. Proposals will be accepted up to September 15, 1989. Send proposals or requests for information to: The Director, Vancouver Conference, Department of History, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada. 5. The Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones (CIEF) will hold its next World Congress in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, at the hotel FAIRMONT from April 11 to 15, 1989. In addition to the numerous multidisciplinary sessions, the Congress will feature receptions, a book and audio-visual materials exhibit, and various cultural events. The presence of noted guest speakers and francophone writers is assured. For complete details all those interested in submitting proposals (in French or English) or in attending should contact: Maurice Cagnon, President, CIEF, Department of Revue detudes canadiennes Vol. 23, No. 3 (Automne 1988 Fall) French, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043, USA; (201) 893-4283; home: (212) 663-8186. Those wishing to become members of the association may send dues of $25 (US) to: David Barry, CIEF Executive Director, P.O. Box43331, University of Southwestern Louisiana , Lafayette, LA 70504, USA. Dues include two yearly issues of the CIEF's learned journal, Revue Francophone, to which members are invited to submit articles and book reviews. 6. The Trevor Reese Memorial Prize for 1988 has been awarded to Dr. James Belich for his The New Zealand Wars: and the Victoria[ Interpretation of Racial Conflict (Auckland University Press, 1986). The Prize, of£500, is awarded every two years to what is in the opinion of the adjudicators an outstanding work of scholarship published in the field of imperial and Commonwealth history in the preceding two years. Publishers or authors wishing to submit titles published in 1987 and 1988 for consideration for the 1990 award should send one copy to the Director's Secretary, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 27-28 Russell Square, London, WClB 5DS, England. 7. The John Carter Brown Library will award approximately fifteen Research Fellowships for the year June 1, 1989-May 30, 1990. Among them are the Short-Term Fellowships . The regular...