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Understanding Canada conference and volume

  Faculty of Humanities - Department of English & Cultural Studies,

  Lorraine York (yorkl@mcmaster.ca), Daniel Coleman (dcoleman@mcmaster.ca), Melissa Tanti (melisst@mcmaster.ca), Jeremy Haynes (haynesjd@mcmaster.ca)

  Status
Complete
  Start Date
September, 2013
  Countries
Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Jamaica, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom

The international conference saw us host 17 international experts on Canadian literature (from Australia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Jamaica, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain and the UK) from September 27-29 2013, present short working statements to the public on the first day, followed by intensive workshopping of the papers on days 2 and 3. Out of this experience came a book project, Beyond Understanding Canada: Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature, published by the University of Alberta Press in 2017. We also posted online 5-minute versions of their talks.

Impact

The partnerships that were forged over these three days of conferencing and months of collaborative editing and revision have continued to produce exciting transnational collaborative research. One of our editors has continued to collaborate with a senior scholar in Serbia, and another editor has brought some of the scholars from France and Spain into a publishing project of hers in the UK that would otherwise probably have featured only Canadian contributors on Canadian literature.

Student Experience

The MA-student research assistant who worked with York and Coleman on the conference organization developed ties with a wide range of International scholars, and the 2 PhD students who assisted with the conference and became our two co-editors on the resulting volume gained a great deal of experience with the international study of Canadian writing and with the process of moving from conference papers to essays in a peer-reviewed published volume.

Countries
Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Jamaica, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom
Impact
Research, Global Partnerships
Institutional Partner(s)
Community Partner(s)
Industry Partner(s)
Key Outcomes
Publications
Sponsorship
Federal
Sponsorship Details
we were awarded a SSHRC Connections grant in aid of the conference, and a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in support of the publication of the volume of essays
MOU
No

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