Le défi de la fragilité, Autour des essais de François Paré, sous la direction de Guy Poirier, Élise Lepage et Tara Collington ISBN : 9782895977636 (2895977631) Le défi de la fragilité se veut un hommage et un témoignage à l’oeuvre critique de François Paré qui a influencé plusieurs générations de chercheurs impliqués dans les études des minorités …
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News from the Wirth Institute
Since the outbreak of the pandemic and the closing of the University of Alberta to the public, the Wirth Institute has moved its programs online. These include a curated series of recorded presentations of music composed by central Europeans. Last week, Franz Sabo, the founding director of the Institute and a retired specialist on the …
Important update regarding Congress 2020 | Mise à jour importante concernant le Congrès 2020
Dear members and friends of the Federation, On March 18, 2020, we made the difficult decision to cancel Congress 2020 at Western University, and began consulting our members on a proposal to move the event online. Our priority was to protect public health, while giving our scholarly associations an alternative to share their research …
The Salzburg Collection at the University of Alberta. Research stay of Dr. Marion Romberg (ÖAW-IHB) in February 2020
From 1 to 24 February 2020, Dr. Marion Romberg, historian and art historian from the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW-IHB) in Vienna, will be staying at the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta. The objective of her prolonged stay is …
Revolution, Restoration, Reconstitution: Temporality and the Transfer and Transformation of Royal Power
Event Date: 01 Jul 2020 to 04 Jul 2020 Panel at the 'Kings and Queens 9' conference, Luxembourg Steven Zwicker said of Restoration England and its literary culture that it was a period particularly ‘conscious of its cultural demarcation’. This is a recurring trope of both contemporary and later scholarship on the re-establishment of the monarchy under Charles …
September News|Bulletin de septembre
Please be patient, this is a work in progress! Soyez patient, il s'agit d'un chantier en cours!
Linda F. Dietz Prize
Each year the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire offers the Linda F. Dietz Prize — $500 and publication of the winning article. The Linda F. Dietz prize is awarded to the best submission written in either French or English by a Canadian graduate student. The article must incorporate original research and meet the scholarly …
Memories of the Congress| Souvenirs du Congrès
The 2019 conference of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (CSRS) was hosted by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver as a part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our plenary speakers were Dr. Leah Knight and Dr. Wendy Wall (“Ecologies of Text …
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CSRS-SCER Vancouver 2019 Program
Dear Participants: The annual meeting of CSRS-SCER is only a week away, and we are excited to see you and to hear your projects! Following this message is the most current version of our programme. If you see any mistakes, then please let me know. This is a link to UBC's online map pages (https://www.ubc.ca/about/maps.html), …
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