Where From Here? September 15 – 16, 2022 – University of Guelph In the wake of the global pandemic, environmental disaster, the war in Ukraine, the protests against anti-Black racism and police violence in Canada, the discovery of unmarked graves on the sites of former residential schools, and […]
54th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Niagara Falls, NY / 23-26 March 2023 Creative Writing Panel – “Voices in Diaspora” The term diaspora refers to the dispersion of a people from their native land; and often, there is a subjective emotional attachment whereas […]
EVERYTHING IS AWFUL? ECOLOGY AND AFFECT IN LITERATURES IN CANADA Call for Papers for a special issue of Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural StudiesIssue 12, 2023 Guest editors: Stephanie Oliver and Kit Dobson “Now, welcome to the Anthropoceneyou battered, tilting globe. Still you […]
Toronto Chic Symposium Friday, September 30th, 2022 Jackman Humanities Building, University of Toronto In recent years, Toronto has steadily positioned itself as a fashionable city. References to “Hogtown” and “Toronto the Good” have long been replaced with the upbeat “T. Dot” and the slick moniker “the 6ix” — […]
Co-Editors Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman (Dave Sim: Conversations, Chester Brown: Conversations, Seth: Conversations, Jim Shooter: Conversations, Steve Gerber: Conversations, Approaching Twin Peaks: Essays on the Original Series, and The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels) seek original, previously unpublished essays on the work of Dave Sim […]
