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CFP: Memories of Erasure: The Lost Villages of Eastern Canada 16th-21th Century

Bilingual symposium, organized by Barry Gaulton et Jean-René Thuot

Memorial University, 14 May 2026

At a time when the pace and intensity of climate disasters (fires, floods, riverbank and coastal erosion, etc.) are accelerating, where populations are regularly displaced and the future of many villages or sectors is threatened, it seems more essential than ever to better understand the factors and scenarios of erasure and/or abandonment, as well as the dynamics and tensions they create within communities, between memories, identity and erasure.

This symposium offers an opportunity to examine the factors and conditions that, since the 16th century, have led to the abandonment of permanent (or seasonal) settlements along the maritime territories of eastern Canada.

CFP: UNB-UMaine History Graduate Student Conference – Resilience and Resistance: Challenging the Norm

Proposal deadline: January 5th, 2026

Conference Dates: March 27th-29th 2026

Location: UNB Fredericton, with hybrid participation available

During times of great conflict and change, historians seek to understand how past generations have responded not only with acquiescence and complicity but also with resilience and resistance. The 24th annual UMaineUNB History Graduate Student Conference seeks to facilitate discourse on how resilience and resistance shape the ways that diverse groups of people have responded to individual and collective challenges.

Come Together: A Reflection on the Atlantic Canada Studies Conference

See Dr. Edward MacDonald's recent posting on the Atlantic Canada Studies Conference:

https://acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/come-together-a-reflection-on-the-atlantic-canada-studies-conference/

The bi-annual Atlantic Canada Studies Conference will soon be rolling around again, and I have fallen into anecdotage. Actually, it is someone else’s anecdotage. A friend of mine, a former provincial archivist now fulfilling his passion for history in retirement, was telling me the other week about attending the first ACS conferences in the 1970s...