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CALL FOR PAPERS
Speaking Her Mind: Canadian Women and Public Presence
20-22 October 2016
University of Calgary
http://speakinghermind.ca/

How are women engaging with public discussion and debate in Canada?

Speaking Her Mind: Canadian Women and Public Presence is the follow-up conference to Discourse and Dynamics: Canadian Women as Public Intellectuals, which took place at Mount Allison University in October 2014 (see http://discoursedynamics.ca/). As Discourse and Dynamics made clear, “public intellectual” remains an unsatisfactory term for many women who have contributed to and continue to engage in public discussion and debate in Canada. Speaking Her Mind aims to take that investigation to the next level.

Proposals are invited for presentations that explore Canadian women’s public presence on questions of concern related to social, political, cultural, economic, literary, artistic, linguistic, diplomatic, and environmental issues. A wide range of participation is invited, from individual papers to panels, performances, or other forms of discussion. The following are suggestions but all proposals for individual or collaborative presentations are welcome.

• Women’s right to speak
• Public presences that have made a difference
• When the body speaks
• Speaking about violence, poverty, racism, health
• Politics and its Discontents
• Entering/leaving the public sphere
• Opinions and their backlash
• Forms of speaking: literature, art, music, dance, photography

Proposals should include:
1. title (up to 150 characters)
2. abstract (100-150 words)
3. description (300 words)
& on a separate page a short biographical note and full contact information
Proposals may be submitted electronically by September 28, 2015 to speakinghermind@ucalgary.ca
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ORGANIZERS:

Aritha van Herk            Professor, Department of English   
2500 University Dr. N.W.       
University of Calgary           
Calgary, Alberta           
T2N 1N4    

Christl VerduynDirector, Centre for Canadian Studies
Professor, Department of English
Mount Allison University
Sackville, New Brunswick
E4L 1G9

notes, on the archive;

Christine the Archivist sent out this photo recently, with the following tweet, referring to "World's End," which happens to be my current poetry work-in-progress (examples of such here and here). Strange to think of such conversation out in the world; strange to see some two decades-plus of my writing life stacked up on a desk in the Archives of the University of Calgary...

Notes on the Archive : Open Book: Ontario,

My piece "Notes on the Archive," a short essay on the long process of preparing and sending my archive off to the University of Calgary, is now online at Open Book: Ontario.

Photo of me in our storage unit off Parkdale in late August by Christine McNair.