ACCUTE CONFERENCE CANCELED
In response to the events that took place at McGill University on the evening of June 6, many of you have contacted the ACCUTE executive expressing your grave concerns about ACCUTE continuing to participate in the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences being held at McGill University. Many of you have already withdrawn from this year’s conference. The ACCUTE Board shares your concerns and no longer feels that holding any events on the McGill campus is viable.
Given that the conference is scheduled to start next Wednesday, it is not logistically possible for us to seek an alternate venue or shift the entire conference online. So, we have taken the difficult decision to cancel all panels. We know that this decision will be disappointing to many, particularly those of you traveling to Montreal to attend our conference.
We are still planning to hold our two keynotes, by Caroline Levine and Erín Moure, as online events. We will confirm as soon as possible.
ACCUTE will, upon request, refund the Association registration fee. Graduate students and contract academic faculty members with non-refundable transportation costs will receive the travel subsidy they would have received if they’d attended the conference. Please submit requests for refunds of non-refundable travel by submitting the online form before June 21, 2024.
Papers accepted for this year’s conference will be accepted for presentation at next year’s conference, which is scheduled to take place as part of the 2025 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at George Brown College.
If you have any questions, please contact me at divison@lakeheadu.ca.
Again, we regret the decision to cancel the vast majority of this year’s conference. We were unfortunately left with no viable alternative.
Yours,
Douglas Ivison
President, ACCUTE
ACCUTE 2024: Upcoming Caucus Meetings & AGM
Over the coming days, we will be holding our remaining caucus meetings and our Annual General Meeting online. We encourage you to attend the sessions relevant to your position. Please find the schedule below. Zoom links will populate on the day of the meeting and are also available by request at info.accute@gmail.com.
| Colleges Meeting – Chaired by Mark Kaethler | 6/17/2024 | 13:00 EDT |
| Contract Academic Faculty Meeting – Chaired by Carellin Brooks | 6/17/2024 | 17:00 EDT |
| CWC Meeting – Open to all ACCUTE members – Chaired by Adam Dickinson | 6/18/2024 | 12:00 EDT |
| Campus Reps meeting – Chaired by Douglas Ivison | TBD | |
| ACCUTE 2024 Annual General Meeting – Chaired by Douglas Ivison | 6/18/2024 | 14:00 EDT |
ACCUTE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Caroline Levine
“Studying Literature in the Climate Crisis, or a Tale of Three Pipelines.”
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m, Thursday, June 13, 2024; Concordia University McConnell Building LB 125, 1400 de Maisonneuve W
Also available on the Congress Virtual Platform. If you do not have access to the Virtual Platform, please contact info.accute@gmail.com for the link.
Co-sponsored with RhetCanada, ESAC, and CAPS, and University of Toronto Press Journals.
Caroline Levine is the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. She has spent her career asking how and why the humanities and the arts matter, especially in democratic societies. She argues for an understanding of forms and structures as essential both to understanding links between art and society and to the challenge of taking meaningful political action. She is the author of four books. The most recent, The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (Princeton University Press 2023), grows out of the theoretical work of Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2015, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize from the MLA, and named one of Flavorwire’s “10 Must-Read Academic Books of 2015”). Levine has also published The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt (2003) and Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts (2007). She is currently the nineteenth-century editor for the Norton Anthology of World Literature and spends much of her free time engaged in climate activism, including the successful drive to divest the Cornell endowment.
ERÍN MOURE
“The Poem Is a Language-Place Where Thinking Trembles Vibrates”
co-sponsored with ACQL and CCLA, and University of Alberta Press.
***This keynote will be presented at Congress 2025 at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario***
Erín Moure is a poet-translator who welcomes poetry called unconventional or difficult. She is a two-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award (poetry and translation), winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Nelson Ball Prize, co-recipient of a QWF Spoken Word Prize, three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry in the USA, twice winner of a QWF Poetry Prize, and three-time finalist for the Canadian version of the Griffin Poetry Prize. She has been international translator in residence at The Queen’s College, Oxford University and a creative fellow at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University. Moure holds two honorary doctorates for contributions to poetry and literary culture, from the Universidade de Vigo in Galician, Spain and Brandon University, Canada. She has published 18 books of poetry, a book of essays, articles on translation, two memoirs, and is translator or co-translator of 26 books from French, Galician, Portunhol, Portuguese, Spanish, and Ukrainian into English, and from Galician into French. Most recent translations: Chus Pato’s The Face of the Quartzes (Veliz Books, 2021) from Galician and Chantal Neveu’s you (Book*hug Press, 2024) from French. Theophylline: ana-poretic migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (House of Anansi, 2023) is her latest book. She is based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. https://erinmoure.mystrikingly.com
