BACS Conference 2025
‘Canada: Past, Present, Future’
British Association for Canadian Studies and Centre of Canadian Studies 50th Anniversary Conference
University of Edinburgh, 24-26 April 2025
With special thanks to Dr James Kennedy and the Centre for Canadian Studies at Edinburgh University, the BACS Council is delighted to confirm the details of the 50th Anniversary Conference being held in Edinburgh from 24 to 26 April 2025.
Registration
Registration is via Eventbrite (here).
Please note: Conference registration includes BACS membership for 2025. Membership can also be purchased via Eventbrite for anyone not attending the conference.
The British Journal of Canadian Studies can be purchased for a reduced rate via Eventbrite.
Accommodation is not included in the cost of the conference. For accommodation suggestions please see below.
Attendees entitled to the concessions rate include students, retirees and the unwaged.
PhD students and early career scholars (within 3 years of their PhD) who are presenting a paper at the conference are also entitled to the concessions rate and can claim reimbursement of the remaining cost of the conference after they have delivered their paper.
Eventbrite link
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bacs-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1267568785359
To register for the conference please click on the Tickets tab and choose from the following options:
Conference package (except conference dinner) - £220.00 (£110.00 concessions)
Conference day rate - Thursday 24 April - free
Conference day rate - Friday 25 April - £120.00 (£60.00 concessions)
Conference day rate - Saturday 26 April -£100.00 (£50.00 concessions)
Conference dinner - £55.00
BACS membership for non-attendees - £10.00 (£5,00 concessions)
BJCS 2025 - online only - £25.00 (£12.50 concessions)
BJCS 2025 - print and online - £50.00 (£25.00 concessions)
Accommodation
Edinburgh is a very popular destination and there are plenty of accommodation options for different budget levels and needs. Here are some suggestions that visitors have enjoyed in the past.
TEN HILL PLACE, 10 Hill Place. Independent hotel run by the Royal College of Surgeons. Popular with academic visitors. https://www.tenhillplace.com
KM CENTRAL, 7 Richmond Place. The University runs a few hotels too, this one is near campus: https://www.uoecollection.com/hotels/km-hotel/ (there’s a discount code on the linked website for 15% off)
MARRIOTT RESIDENCE INN, Quartermile – includes kitchen facilities in the guest rooms. https://www.marriott.com/en-gb/hotels/ediri-residence-inn-edinburgh/overview/ – right next to campus.
IBIS SOUTH BRIDGE, 77 South Bridge – half way between the train station and campus. https://all.accor.com/hotel/8484/index.en.shtml?dateIn=&nights=&compositions=1&stayplus=false#origin=ibis
MOTEL ONE ROYAL, 18-21 Market Street – right next to Waverley Station (and airport bus terminus). https://www.motel-one.com/en/hotels/edinburgh/hotel-edinburgh-royal/ (there is also a second Motel One branch centrally, by Princes Street, but it’s a little bit further from campus)
LEONARDO ROYAL HOTEL EDINBURGH, 43 Jeffrey Street. Large hotel by Waverley Station. Convenient for transport and just a short walk from campus. https://www.leonardohotels.co.uk/edinburgh/leonardo-royal-hotel-edinburgh
Call for Papers
The deadline for the call for papers has been extended to 31 January 2025 – see below.
Co-sponsored by the Centre of Canadian Studies, the British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) returns to Scotland for the first time in 25 years to celebrate its 50th anniversary. This is a joint celebration, as the Centre also celebrates 50 years.
BACS 2025 explores the challenges and the opportunities facing Canada at the beginning of the 21st century. The past 50 years, for instance, have been pivotal in Canada: multiculturalism is now entrenched and a defining Canadian characteristic, sovereignty referenda in Québec have changed the political landscape, and Indigenous resurgence places Canada’s first peoples at the heart of the national conversation. More, the very real challenges of climate change for all Canadians, but most especially for Arctic peoples, and Canada’s settler-colonial legacies continue to shape contemporary realities.
With a view to exploring these, among other social, political and cultural realities, ‘Canada: Past, Present, Future’ invites reflections not only historical, but also on how Canada will move forward in the coming decades in response to challenges and opportunities – domestic, climactic and geopolitical.
Contributions from all disciplines are most welcome. We especially invite papers that engage with the following themes:
- Indigeneity and Arctic governance
- Multiculturalism, Immigration and the Post/decolonial
- Canada's international relations, especially Canada-UK relations
- Multilevel governance and federalism
- Race, ethnicity and religion
- Language Policies/Language Laws
- 2SLGBTQI+ Communities
- Families, friendships, communities
- History and knowledge practices
- Art, literature and landscape
Papers that address other themes in the study of Canada are also very welcome.
The British Journal for Canadian Studies is publishing a special issue to mark the 50th Anniversary. All presented papers will be considered for publication.
We especially encourage doctoral students and early career academics to submit. BACS will be awarding a number of prizes for original contributions from doctoral students and early career academics. Please indicate if you wish to be considered.
New deadline for proposals: 31 January 2025. Please submit proposals of up to 250 words, or propose a panel of 3 or 4 papers, with a brief CV, to: centreofcanadianstudies@ed.ac.uk
ACSI CONFERENCE, BELFAST, 9-11 MAY 2024
Thursday May 9th : Online
The conference will run online on Thursday 9th, from approximately 1.30pm to 5.30pm local time (exact times to be confirmed) to facilitate participants joining us from any location on the island of Ireland or overseas.
Important:
- If you are travelling from overseas and do not wish to overnight in Belfast on Thursday, we recommend the City of Derry-Londonderry as a much more affordable alternative. Derry-Londonderry is served by direct bus services from Dublin and Belfast's airports. It also has a picturesque direct rail link to Belfast (hourly, £18-26, 2 hour journey, see the timetable here). Dr Julie Rodgers (Maynooth University) will be organising a walking tour of Derry on the Thursday evening and there will also be an opportunity for Derry-based delegates to meet up over dinner.
- All attendees are invited to join online from their accommodation on Thursday. For attendees who are visiting the campus of either Queen's University or the University of Ulster, if you install Eduroam on your device, you can also join online from a campus building. See information about the Eduroam system here: https://eduroam.org/where/
- Attendees may wish to stay in Dublin on Thursday, and travel on Friday morning to Belfast by coach (from the city centre or from the airport: see www.Dublinexpress.ie website), or by train (from Connolly station, see irishrail.ie)
Friday May 10th : In-Person / Belfast
- To facilitate delegates' travel arrangements, Friday's conference activities will begin at approximately 11.15 a.m. A train leaves central Dublin (Dublin Connolly station) at 7.35, reaching Belfast 9.48 (see Irish Rail timetable, linked here), and Dublinexpressbuses leave the city and airport from about 08.00, arriving approximately 10.50. Queen’s University Belfast’s campus is a 20 minute walk or 10 mini taxi ride from either the bus or train station.
- The first day of in-person activities will include Queen's University Belfast's Eaton Lecture at 6pm. We are immensely privileged to have The Honourable Murray Sinclair as our main speaker. His Honour will join us virtually, for a hybrid event in the Great Hall, accompanied in-person by a panel of leading activists and academics. The event will be co-hosted by the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's. The conference dinner will take place after the Eaton Lecture.
Saturday May 11th : In person / Belfast
- To facilitate delegates onward travel arrangements, the Saturday conference events will run from approximately 10am to 2pm, on Queen’s campus. Suggested activities will be circulated later, allowing those staying in Belfast to make the most of Saturday.
Hotel Accommodation
We have negotiated discounts at a number of hotels within Belfast. Links to the hotels and details of how to claim a discount at time of booking are detailed in the attached Word document.
Early Career scholar bursaries
Support is available for Early Career scholars to participate in the conference. Four bursaries are available, each worth up to 500 Euros. For these bursaries, ACSI members who are based on the island of Ireland will be prioritised, but consideration will also be given to applicants from abroad who are members of other Canadian studies associations (please indicate your membership). Recipients will be expected to become members of ACSI for the next membership period and to support the organisation with forthcoming activities (see below).
If you would like to be considered for a bursary, email your CV, title and abstract along with 80-100 words on how you would commit to support ACSI if successful in the bursary. For example, you may be willing to help co-organise a future online seminar, assist with editing work, e.g. on a book of abstracts, give a further paper if required, be open to more than one of the above, or you may have other suggestions. Please send this information to n.majury@qub.ac.uk by February 19th, 5pm (Belfast time) with the subject line ‘ACSI Bursary Application’.
Action needed by presenters
We do hope you can join us in Belfast this May. Please confirm by email (n.majury@qub.ac.uk) no later than Feb 23rd if you would like to accept this invitation to present at ACSI 2024. In your email, please also let us know if you would like to receive further information about staying in Derry for the night of May 9th.
For those who can only attend the online parts of the conference (the papers on Thursday, and the Eaton lecture on Friday evening), it is important to inform us of this in your acceptance email. For this, please use the reference ‘Online Only” in your subject heading.
We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible to this part of the island of Ireland in late Spring, when the weather is less decidedly 'baltic', with luck 'the sun is spitting the stones', and the 'craic' is as good as ever.
ACSI CONFERENCE, 'CANADA TODAY AND TOMORROW', 18 MAY 2023
Canada Today and Tomorrow - an online conference - Thursday 18 May 2023 (1.00pm-5.15pm, local time, Dublin)
Canada Today and Tomorrow gathers together established and emerging international scholars to reflect on a range of dimensions of research on Canada, including themes such as transitions, decolonialisation, pluri-culturalism, interculturalism, indigeneity, translations, multilingualism, the environment and migration. Speakers are drawn from a variety of countries, including Ireland, Germany, Portugal and Canada. The conference will be structured around short (15 minute) interventions whose aim is to provoke reflection and questions for wider discussion among everyone attending.
This online event has been organised by ACSI - https://www.canadianstudiesireland.com/
We gratefully acknowledge the support of Public Engagement at Queen’s University Belfast for kindly hosting this event on their platform (https://www.qub.ac.uk/).
Registration for the conference is via Eventbrite:
BACS Conference 2023
BACS CONFERENCE PROGRAMME, 2023
SENATE HOUSE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
20-22 APRIL 2023
Thursday 20 April
1.00PM-2.00PM – REGISTRATION & WELCOME – JESSEL/SENATE ROOMS (1st FLOOR)
- Tony McCulloch and BACS Council members
2.00PM-3.30PM – SESSION 1A (SENATE ROOM)
ROUNDTABLE – ‘Constructing Canadian Identity from Abroad: How Externality Influences an Understanding of Canada’
Chair - Christopher Kirkey (SUNY, Plattsburgh)
- Christina Keppie (Western Washington University)
- Steven Hayward (Colorado College, Colorado)
- Anne Trépanier (Carleton University, Ottawa)
3.30PM-4.00PM – REFRESHMENTS (JESSEL ROOM)
4.00PM-5.00PM – SESSION 2A (SENATE ROOM)
ECCLES LECTURE (SPONSORED BY CANADA-UK FOUNDATION & ECCLES CENTRE, BL)
‘The secrets of Mary Boyd: sex, scandal, and the control of women's bodies in Toronto in 1868’
Chair – Jean Petrovic (Eccles Centre, British Library)
- Jane McGaughey (Concordia University, Montreal)
(Sponsored by the Canada-UK Foundation and the Eccles Centre, British Library)
5.00PM-6.00PM (JESSEL ROOM)
ECCLES CENTRE WINE RECEPTION
Friday 21 April - SESSIONS 3A-6A (SENATE ROOM)
9.30AM-11.00AM - SESSION 3A (SENATE ROOM)
‘Past informs future: the significance of law and legal regulation'
Chair – Ellie Bird (University of Lancaster)
- Blake Brown (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
‘Tonsillectomies and Medical Malpractice Law in the Mid-Twentieth Century Canada’
- Janice Denoncourt (Nottingham Law School, UK)
‘How company regulation legal history of Canada and the UK could transform corporate governance reporting of intangible assets and IPRs’
- Jennifer Llewellyn (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
‘Responding to Systemic Human Rights Abuses & Failures of Care: A Restorative Approach to Public Inquiry in Canada’
11.00AM-11.30AM – REFRESHMENTS (JESSEL ROOM)
11.30AM-1.00PM – SESSION 4A (SENATE ROOM)
‘The 50th Anniversary Canada-UK Colloquium: Canada and the UK in a Changing International Environment’
Chair – Anthony Cary (Canada-UK Council & former UK High Commissioner to Canada)
- Anthony Cary (Co-Chair, Canada-UK Council)
- Nicolas Maclean (Co-Chair, Canada-UK Council)
- Robert Hazell (University College London)
1.00PM-2.00PM – LUNCH (JESSEL ROOM)
Prix de la Délégation générale du Québec à Londres
To be awarded by Madame Line Rivard, Agent-General for Québec
2.00PM-3.30PM – SESSION 5A (SENATE ROOM)
ROUNDTABLE – ‘The Québec-United States relationship: political, security, economic, cultural and environmental dynamics’ / ‘La relation Québec-États-Unis: dynamique politique, sécuritaire, économique, culturelle et environnementale’
Chair – Patrick Holdich (University College London and former UK Consul in Quebec)
- Christopher Kirkey, SUNY (Plattsburgh)
- Stéphane Paquin, ÉNAP
- Frédérick Gagnon, UQÀM
Sponsored by the Institute on Quebec Studies at SUNY Plattsburgh, Groupe d’études et de recherche sur l’international et le Québec [GERIQ] at École nationale d'administration publique (ÉNAP), and Observatoire sur les États-Unis and Chaire Raoul-Dandurand, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM).
4.00PM-5.30PM – SESSION 6A (SENATE ROOM)
‘Indigenous politics and culture’
Chair – Tracie Scott (Heriot-Watt University, Dubai, UAE)
- Cara Voyageur (University of Calgary)
‘Leading the Nations: First Nations Chiefs in Canada’
- Brian Calliou (University of Calgary)
‘The development of an Indigenous Culture in the Canadian Legal Profession’
- Erin Spring (University of Calgary)
‘Culturally responsive literacy: student engagement with the Indigenous picture book - Amō’s Sapotawa’
7.00PM – CONFERENCE DINNER
FRIDAY 21 APRIL – SESSIONS 3B-6B (BRUNSWICK ROOM)
9.30AM-11.00AM – SESSION 3B (BRUNSWICK ROOM)
‘Canadian politics – yesterday and today’
Chair – Tony McCulloch (University College London)
- Raymond Blake (University of Regina)
‘Canada’s Prime Ministers Build Solidarity through National Identity Construction, 1968-2015’
- Wayne Hunt (Mount Allison University, New Brunswick)
Trudeau’s response to Chinese interference in Canadian elections - clashing leadership styles and the use of different communication platforms.
11.00AM-11.30AM – REFRESHMENTS (JESSEL ROOM)
11.30AM-1.00PM – SESSION 4B (BRUNSWICK ROOM)
‘Contemporary policy issues’
Chair – Keith Battarbee (University of Turku, Finland)
- Tracie Scott (Heriot-Watt University, Dubai, UAE)
‘Who should define membership in Indigenous groups? A comparison between First Nations in Canada and the United Arab Emirates)
- Paul Bowles (University of Northern British Columbia)
‘Canada and the Search for Extractive Bargains: Natural Resources and the State-Society Nexus’
1.00PM-2.00PM – LUNCH (JESSEL ROOM)
Prix de la Délégation générale du Québec à Londres
Awarded by Madame Line Rivard, Agent-General for Québec
2.00PM-3.30PM – SESSION 5B (BRUNSWICK ROOM)
‘Yukon and the Northwest Coast of Canada – policy issues’
Chair – Jane Lovell (Canterbury Christ Church University)
- Fiona MacPhail (University of Northern British Columbia)
‘COVID-19 impacts on wellbeing in the Yukon, Canada: implications for an inclusive and resilient recovery plan’
- Quentin Ehrmann-Curat (LAS-EHESS, Paris, France)
‘Northwest Coast Indigenous Heritage in British Museums: history and perspectives’
3.30PM-4.00PM – REFRESHMENTS (JESSEL ROOM)
4.00PM-5.30PM – SESSION 6B (BRUNSWICK ROOM)
‘Canadian crises – 1962 and 1993’
Chair – Phillip Buckner (University of New Brunswick)
- Graeme Garrard (University of Cardiff)
‘The Worst of Friends: Canada and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962’
- Patrick Holdich (University College London)
‘Epitaph for a Two-Party System? The pivotal 1993 federal election thirty years on’
7.00PM – CONFERENCE DINNER
SATURDAY 22 APRIL – SESSIONS 11A-12A (SENATE ROOM)
9.30AM-11.00AM – SESSION 7A (SENATE ROOM
‘Understanding Canada through literature’
Chair – Keith Syrett (University of Bristol)
- Janne Korkka (University of Turku, Finland)
‘Knowing animals in Canadian writing’
- Sawssen Ahmadi (Le Havre University, Normandy)
‘Revisiting Canadian Multiculturalism Through Ethnic Minorities’ Literature’
- Dagmara Drewniak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
‘From Canada to Poland (and Back): the memoirs of Connie T. Braun’
11.00AM-11.30AM – REFRESHMENT BREAK (JESSEL ROOM)
11.30AM-1.00PM – SESSION 8A (SENATE ROOM)
‘Perspectives on Canada - historical and literary’
Chair – Maeve Conrick (University College Dublin & BJCS Editor)
- Mallory Horrill (University College London)
‘The world of Frances Brooke – reflections of an English gentlewoman in Pre-Confederation Canada, 1763-69’
- Giulia Rovelli (University of Bergamo, Italy)
‘Towards a Historical Corpus of Canadian Letters and Diaries – the CanDL Project’
- Ellie Bird (University of Lancaster)
‘Canada in the Antebellum Slave Narrative, 1849-57’
1.00PM-2.00PM – LUNCH (JESSEL ROOM)
2.00PM-3.00PM – BACS AGM (SENATE ROOM)
BACS Annual General Meeting
Chair - Tony McCulloch (University College London)
- BACS Executive and Council members
- BACS members and supporters
- Agenda and minutes of last meeting in delegates’ pack
3.00PM CONFERENCE ENDS
BACS Conference 2023
BACS CONFERENCE, 20-22 APRIL 2023 - CALL FOR PAPERS
The BACS Conference will take place in-person in London from 20 to 22 April 2023.
Registration is required and tickets can be purchased via Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bacs-conference-20-22-april-2023-tickets-524881533797
CANADA AT HOME AND ABROAD
The theme of the 2023 conference is ‘Canada at home and abroad’ and papers on any aspect of Canada and the teaching and promotion of Canadian Studies are welcome, including the history, politics, literature, culture, and indigenous peoples of Canada and the individual provinces and territories within Canada. Papers that focus on Canada’s relationships with other countries, and comparisons between Canada and other countries, are also welcome. Proposals for panels are especially welcome.
The conference will take place at Senate House, University of London, in the famous Bloomsbury district of central London. It will commence on Thursday 20 April at 2.00pm with registration and finish at 3.00pm, after the BACS AGM, on Saturday 22 April.
Unfortunately it will not be possible to include online presentations as part of the conference or to attend the conference online. But proposals for online papers and panels will be considered for the BACS-UCL online events programme that takes place throughout the year.
Conference proposals for presentations of individual papers (15-20 minutes long) or full panels (3/4 papers) should be sent to Tony McCulloch (BACS President) accompanied by an outline of each paper (100-200 words) and a brief bio of the presenter/s (100-200 words each). Any limitation on the attendance of the presenter/s should also be included so that individual and panel presentations can be timetabled on the most convenient day of the conference – either Friday 21 April or Saturday 22 April.
The initial deadline for paper proposals is Tuesday 28 February.
Early submission of panel and paper proposals is encouraged.
Proposals to be sent to: tony.mcculloch@ucl.ac.uk by 28 February (initial deadline)
It is intended to produce an initial conference programme in early March so paper proposals are requested to be sent in by 28 February. A decision on individual and panel proposals will usually be made by the conference committee within 3 days of receipt.
Proposals received after 28 February will still be considered, subject to availability of space within the programme, but preference will be given to proposals received by that date.
ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is not included in the charge for attending the conference (see charges below). The recommended hotel is the Tavistock Hotel, which is very near to Senate House, but there are many other hotels and guest houses in the area, including other hotels in the Imperial Group.
https://www.imperialhotels.co.uk/
Other nearby budget hotels include the Premier Inn and Travelodge, as well as a wide range of guest houses and more expensive hotels.
CONFERENCE OUTLINE - 20-22 APRIL 2023
The first session of the conference, commencing 2.00pm, on Thursday 20 April will consist of a roundtable entitled ‘Constructing Canadian Identity from Abroad: How Externality Influences an Understanding of Canada’. The roundtable will be chaired by Christopher Kirkey (Director, Center for the Study of Canada, SUNY, Plattsburgh) and includes Christina Keppie (Professor of French and Linguistics, Western Washington University), Steven Hayward (Professor and Chair of English Department, Colorado College), Andrew Ives (Professor of North American Studies, Université de Caen Normandie), and Anne Trépanier (Associate Professor, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies & Department of French, Carleton University, Ottawa).
This will be followed by the Eccles Lecture, sponsored by the Eccles Centre at the British Library and the Canada-UK Foundation, based at Canada House, entitled: ‘The Secrets of Mary Boyd: Sex, Scandal, and the Control of Women's Bodies in Toronto in 1868’ and delivered by Jane McGaughey (Associate Professor and Johnson Chair of Quebec and Canadian Studies in the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec). A wine reception will follow.
Friday 21 April will include a Quebec lunchtime reception, and the award of the Prix de la Délégation générale du Québec à Londres, as well as a wide range of conference panels, including one on Quebec and the United States. entitled 'The Québec-United States Relationship: Political, Security, Economic, Cultural and Environmental Dynamics', featuring Christopher Kirkey (Director, Center for the Study of Canada, SUNY, Plattsburgh), Stéphane Paquin (ÉNAP) and Frédérick Gagnon (UQÀM).
The conference dinner will take place on Friday evening, provisionally at the nearby Ambassadors Hotel (tbc).
Several more conference panels are planned to take place on the morning of Saturday 22 April, followed by the BACS AGM, after lunch. The conference is scheduled to end at about 3.00pm.
Registration is required and tickets can be purchased via Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bacs-conference-20-22-april-2023-tickets-524881533797
BACS CONFERENCE FEES, 2023 AND CANCELLATION POLICY
Full conference package, including refreshments, lunches and at least one wine reception (but not BACS membership or the conference dinner) - £190.00 (£95.00 concessions). The concessionary rate applies to students, the unwaged and retirees.
Day rate - Thursday – £40.00 (£20.00 concessions);
Day rate - Friday, not including conference dinner- £100.00 (concessions £50.00);
Day rate - Saturday - £60.00 (concessions £30.00)
Conference dinner - £50.00 (Friday evening at nearby Ambassadors Hotel, location to be confirmed)
FULL REFUNDS FOR CANCELLATION UP UNTIL 31 MARCH 2023
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bacs-conference-20-22-april-2023-tickets-524881533797
BACS Conference 2022
The 2022 BACS Conference took place via UCL Zoom from 21 to 23 April.
Thursday 21 April 2022
4:00pm: Welcome to conference
4:00pm - 5:30pm Session 1: The Canadian truckers' convoy
Chair: Patrick Holdich, Associate Fellow, UCL, and formerly Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Canadian truckers’ convoy and the transnational dimensions of extremist populism
Wayne Hunt, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada
BREAK
6:00pm - 7:30pm Session 2: Indigenous issues
Chair: James Kennedy, University of Edinburgh
Moravian missionaries and the Lenape First Nation in Colonial Ontario
Menja Holtz, History Institute, Technical University, Brunswick, Germany
The limits of the law: Aboriginal rights in the Canadian constitution
Tracie Scott, Heriot Watt University, Dubai
Friday 22 April 2022
Chair: Maeve Conrick, University College Dublin
‘An intruder’ in the Classroom? Belonging and Desire in Jack Wang’s ‘The Valkyries’
Jason Blake, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Land of Peace, Order and Good Government – Deconstructing the Myth in the Canadian Western
Vanja Polic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
BREAK
6:00pm - 7:30pm Session 4: Canada, NATO, Ukraine
Chair: Hector Mackenzie, Carleton University and formerly Global Affairs, Canada
Canada, NATO and the Ukraine conflict
Joel Sokolsky, Royal Military College of Canada, and JJ Jockel, St Lawrence University
Saturday 23 April 2022
2:00pm - 3:00pm Session 5: BACS AGM and election results
Chair: Tony McCulloch, BACS President and UCL Institute of the Americas
BREAK
4:00pm - 5:50pm Session 6: The Blinding Sea
The Blinding Sea is an award-winning documentary film directed by Canadian film-maker George Tombs about Roald Amundsen, the Inuit and the Canadian Arctic.
BREAK
6:00pm - 7:30pm Session 7: Discussion of The Blinding Sea
Chair: Tony McCulloch, University College London
Discussant: Annis May Timpson, Newnham College, Cambridge
Writer and director: George Tombs, The Blinding Sea
CONFERENCE END - Saturday 7:30pm
BACS Conference 2021
The annual BACS Conference took place online on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 April 2021.
The conference was organised in conjunction with QAHN (Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network).
A video recording of the conference can be accessed here:
Day 1:
Day 2:
BACS membership and a BJCS subscription can be accessed and purchased via the link below.
BACS Conference Programme
Friday 16 April
4:00pm Welcome/Introduction (EST - 11:00am; PDT - 8:00am)
4:15 - 5:45 Session 1: Trans/national Literature and Print
Alexandra Abletshauser (University of Glasgow): ‘Edith Maude Eaton and Performative Nationality’
Zhen Liu (Shandong University): ‘Writing as another: Edith Eaton’s “Wing Sing of Los Angeles on His Travels”’
Rachael Alexander (University of Strathclyde): ‘Feminism and Nation: Periodical Identities and American and Canadian Feminist Magazines’
Chair: Faye Hammill (University of Glasgow, panel organiser)
5:45 - 6:00 Break
6:00 - 7:30 Session 2: Eccles Lecture (introduction by Jean Petrovic, Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library)
Professor Robert Dunbar (University of Edinburgh)
‘Indigenous Languages in Canada: Addressing the Challenges, Righting the Wrongs?’
Chair: James Kennedy (University of Edinburgh)
Saturday 17 April
1:00 - 2:00 Annual General Meeting (BACS members only)
4:00pm Welcome to Day 2 (EST - 11:00am; PDT - 8:00am)
4:15 - 5:45 Session 3: October Crisis of 1970
Steve Hewitt (University of Birmingham): ‘The October Crisis through the Eyes of James Cross’
Patrick Holdich (Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK): ‘The October Crisis: the British government’s response’
Ceri Morgan (Keele University): ‘Writing the October Crisis’
Chair: Tony McCulloch (University College London, panel organiser)
5:45 - 6:00 Break
6:00 - 7:30 Session 4: Public Policy and Constitutional Questions in Canada (and the UK)
Daniel Béland (McGill University)
Karlo Basta (University of Edinburgh)
Chair: James Kennedy (University of Edinburgh)
