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
sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”

Norman Sieroka
problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”

Martin Nonhoff
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
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”

Kerstin Knopf