News from the British Association of Canadian Studies
Dr. Tony McCulloch shares the following news from the British Association of Canadian Studies. Please note that if an event has already taken place, an update will be shared in the next BACS newsletter.
1) BACS COUNCIL The current membership of the BACS Council can be viewed on the BACS website. https://britishassociationforcanadianstudies.com/membership/
2) BACS PANEL - THE FUTURE OF THE CANADIAN CONSERVATIVE PARTY, TUESDAY 6 DECEMBER 2022
The next BACS/UCL event will be a panel discussion of the outcome of the recent Conservative party leadership election in Canada in which Pierre Poilievre defeated Jean Charest. How do we explain this result and what does it mean for the future of the Canadian Conservative party and Canadian politics more generally? The panel will include Professor Jean-François Godbout (University of Montreal), Professor Allison Harel (UQAM) and Professor Christopher Kirkey (SUNY, Plattsburgh). The event wall take place via Zoom from 6.00pm to 7.30pm (UK time) on 6 December. A Zoom link to the event will be sent to ticket holders prior to the event. Registration is free and all are welcome - tickets and further details can be accessed via the Eventbrite link below. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-the-canadian-conservative-party-tickets-467005645457
3) CAFE CONCERT CELEBRATING MUSIC OF MONTREAL'S EXPO 67, WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER 2022
To celebrate the launch of Expo 67 and Its World: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization (McGill-Queens UP, 2022), the editors, Craig Moyes and Steven Palmer, invite you to the Chancellor’s Hall of Senate House, University of London, for a classic 'Café-Concert'. Featuring Morgane Lola and the Jack Greenslade Trio, the music will highlight the ground-breaking songs of 1967 that were performed in French and in English at Montreal’s Expo 67. International stars like Petula Clark, Charles Aznavour, Marvin Gaye, and The Beatles, shared the stage with local musical heroes Robert Charlebois, Leonard Cohen, Georges Dor, Renée Claude and others. Included will be a special tribute to one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time (who also performed at Expo), Montreal’s own Oscar Peterson.
Location: Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU.
Time: 6.00pm-9.00pm, 7 December 2022
The event is hosted by the Quebec and French Canada Research Network (QaFCaRN) and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at King’s College London, and by the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. It is generously supported by the Government of Quebec. Refreshments are provided. Admission is free. Tickets are available via Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-concert-celebrating-the-music-of-montreals-expo67-tickets-453103724437
4) ROBARTS LECTURE, YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO, TUESDAY 13 DECEMBER 2022 AT 9.00PM (UK TIME) The Changing Politics of Fiscal Federalism in Canada: Recent Challenges and Potential Policy
Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada 13 December 2022 | 519 Kaneff Tower | 16:00–17:00 EST | This is a hybrid event. To attend via Zoom: www.tinyurl.com/Beland-13Dec
Canada is one of the most decentralized federal countries in the world, a fact that makes fiscal federalism an especially crucial political and policy issue. In recent years, three main realities have generated much debate about the future of fiscal federalism in the country. First, the COVID-19 pandemic has created much stress within fiscal federalism while forcing the federal government to adopt temporary measures to help the provinces and the territories cope with emergency health and social spending. Second, in the aftermath of the pandemic and in light of ongoing health care challenges on the ground, the 13 premiers have united to request a major increase in the scope of the Canada Health Transfer. Finally, in provinces like Alberta and Saskatchewan, political leaders have called into question the legitimacy of the federal equalization program, which is a major yet widely misunderstood aspect of fiscal federalism in Canada. The objective of this talk is to assess these three political realities while putting forward potential policy solutions with the aim of improving both federal health care financing and Canada’s equalization program.
Biographical Sketch
Daniel Béland is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. He has held visiting academic positions at Harvard University, the University of Bremen, the University of Nagoya, the University of Southern Denmark, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Professor Béland currently serves as Executive Editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis and President of the Research Committee 19 (Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy) of the International Sociological Association. A student of both fiscal federalism and social policy, he has published more than 20 books and 170 peer-reviewed journal articles. Recent books include Universality and Social Policy in Canada (2019; co-edited with Gregory P. Marchildon and Michael Prince) and Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada: Political and Economic Dimensions (2017; with André Lecours, Gregory P. Marchildon, Haizhen Mou, and Rose Olfert).
5) BACS MEMBERSHIP 2022 and 2023 If you have not yet taken out BACS membership for 2022 it is still possible to do so via Eventbrite link below, whether or not you will be attending the Conservative party leadership event. A 2022 subscription for the BJCS can also be purchased via the same Eventbrite link.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-the-canadian-conservative-party-tickets-467005645457
BACS membership for 2023 will be available shortly and will in future include online access to the BJCS.
6) BACS CONFERENCE, 20-22 APRIL 2023 The next BACS Conference will take place in-person in London in late April, with an online dimension as far as possible. The provisional dates are 20-22 April 2023. Further details and a call for papers will be published shortly.
7) BJCS, CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND CANADA The British Journal of Canadian Studies (BJCS) would like to invite submissions for a special issue of the BJCS focusing on Indigenous peoples and Canada. The issue aims to be an interdisciplinary exploration of, as Pamela Palmeter (2020) called it in the title of her recent book, Indigenous resistance and resurgence in this moment in Canadian history. Papers from a broad array of disciplines in Canadian Studies will be considered, including:
Literary studies
History
Political Science
Law
Philosophy
Business and economics
Any other discipline relating to Indigenous people and First Nations and Canada
The Special Issue is scheduled to be published in Autumn 2023. The initial deadline for the submission of papers to be considered is 30 December 2022. The editors’ decision will be communicated to the authors of the successful submissions by 31 March, 2023. Those whose papers have been accepted for inclusion in the issue will have until 31 May, 2023 to submit revised articles. Articles, in either official language, should be submitted as an email attachment in both formats .doc (or .docx) and .pdf, to the Guest Editor at Tracie.Scott@hw.ac.uk and copied to the Editor maeve.conrick@ucd.ie.
Please indicate ‘manuscript submission indigenous for BJCS’ in the subject heading to ensure easy identification and processing of your submission. Please omit all identifying names and markers of the author(s) from the document containing the article itself, as the manuscript will be blind peer-reviewed. Your name, email address and institutional affiliation should be included in the covering email, along with any additional information for the editor.
Articles should normally be between 5,000 and 8,000 words, although shorter or longer articles will be considered. The article should be accompanied by an abstract of 150 words. Contributions should be word-processed and double-spaced, including quotations and notes. Notes should be kept to a minimum and gathered at the end of the article, before the References list, not printed as footnotes on each page. If in doubt, please consult the most recent issue of the journal as a guide: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0046/0600/1267/files/BJCS_Guide_for_Contributors_2022.pdf?v=1644341675
Articles submitted for consideration will be reviewed anonymously and may be accepted or refused by the Editorial Board on the basis of the recommendations made by the reviewers. If an article is accepted subject to revisions, feedback will be communicated to authors and final acceptance of the article will be subject to satisfactory completion of the revisions.
Whilst articles will be double blind reviewed, priority may be given to authors from First Nations, Métis or Inuit communities from the pool of accepted articles. See below for further information on the nature and scope of the journal.
Tracie Scott, Guest Editor, BJCS
Maeve Conrick, Editor, BJCS
Launched over thirty years ago, the BJCS is broad-based, multidisciplinary, and international, welcoming contributions from all areas of the arts and humanities and the economic and social sciences. For further information on the journal see the BJCS webpage at https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/id/72
Enquiries about submitting an article to the journal should be sent to the Editor, Maeve Conrick. Proposals for special issues on specific Canadian themes are especially welcome. Please address proposals or queries regarding the journal to the BJCS Editor, Professor Maeve Conrick, at maeve.conrick@ucd.ie.
8) BJCS - BOOKS FOR REVIEW The new list of Canada-related books for review can be accessed via the BACS website. https://britishassociationforcanadianstudies.com/bjcs/
9) LJCS - VOLUME 36.1 (2022) The autumn issue of the London Journal of Canadian Studies, published by UCL Press, is now available online. The theme of the issue is 'Canada and the North Atlantic Triangle from Munich to Suez, 1938-1956'. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/pages/the-london-journal-of-canadian-studies
Print copies can be requested from the Editor, Dr Tony McCulloch (tony.mcculloch@ucl.ac.uk)
10) ICCS AWARDS - EXTENSION OF DEADLINE TO 31 DECEMBER 2022 The International Council for Canadian Studies has extended the deadline for its awards, grants, and scholarships until 31 December 2022. These include:
Graduate Student Scholarships
Canadian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowships
Publishing Fund
Governor General's International Award in Canadian Studies
Pierre Savard Awards
The Brian Long Best Doctoral Thesis Award
Best Doctoral Thesis in International Canadian Studies Award
Certificates of Merit
For further details and guidelines regarding the application procedures, please visit the ICCS website:
11) EMERGING SCHOLARS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK For further details about the International Network of Emerging Scholars in Canadian Studies please contact the BACS representative, Dr Ellie Bird - e.l.bird@lancaster.ac.uk
12) BACS MAILING LIST If you would prefer to be removed from the BACS mailing list, please notify Tony McCulloch (tony.mcculloch@ucl.ac.uk). Please also notify him if you know of anyone who would like to be added to the mailing list.