Call for Papers

The Department of English at Ryerson University

The Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program at the University of Ottawa

The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies

Library and Archives Canada

present a conference

Canadian Holocaust Literature: Charting the Field

Sunday, 28 October 2018

Ottawa, Canada

Although the Holocaust has long engaged writers in Canada – those with and without direct links to the historic event – their particular exploration of the subject has received little critical or scholarly attention. There now exists a significant body of Canadian Holocaust Literature that warrants such attention.

We invite proposals for the first-ever conference devoted to Canadian Holocaust Literature. The aim of this landmark conference is twofold: to identify a corpus of work and to generate scholarly interest in the field. Proposals that focus on literary works originally written in Yiddish, Hebrew, English, or French are welcome. For the purposes of this conference, literary works include poetry, drama, short fiction, novels, life writing, graphic narrative, and creative non-fiction. The theme of this inaugural conference is deliberately broad, and critical approaches may vary widely.

Canadian Holocaust Literature: Charting the Field will be held at Library and Archives Canada on Sunday, 28 October 2018.

Proposals of 250 words, along with a 50-word biography, should be submitted electronically by 15 June 2018 to the three conference organizers:

• Rebecca Margolis rmagoli@uottawa.ca

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa

• Seymour Mayne mayne@uottawa.ca

Department of English, University of Ottawa

• Ruth Panofsky panofsky@ryerson.ca

Department of English, Ryerson University