Poster of the Conference “Territory, Tension, and Taboo: Canada in Crisis”

ESF Conference „Territory, Tension & Taboo“

Jody Danard (Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries & RTG Contradiction Studies)

10/10/2024 –10/11/2024

U Bremen GW2 B 3.009

Conference: “Territory, Tension, and Taboo: Canada in Crisis” – Emerging Scholars Forum, Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS)

On October 10 and 11, 2024, the international and interdisciplinary conference of the Emerging Scholars Forum, part of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS), will take place at the University of Bremen. The conference will explore the theme “Territory, Tension, and Taboo: Canada in Crisis.”

Doctoral and master’s students from Canada, England, Germany, Morocco, and Poland will present their research projects, examining how the concept of territory—whether as a historical, legal, geographical, or cultural notion—has become a crucial interdisciplinary nexus within Canadian Studies.

The keynote address, titled “Narratives and Power: Competing Nationalisms in Quebec and Canada,” will be delivered by David Austin (McGill University/John Abbott College) on October 11 at 2 pm.

For any questions, please feel free to contact us at: esfconference2024@gmail.com

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every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”

Gisela Febel
relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke
limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”

Gisela Febel
ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”

Michi Knecht
Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)

Rozena Maart