CFP: BLACK 2026 - "Beyond the Archives"
Black Loyalist Academic Conference of Knowledge - BLACK 2026
"Beyond the Archives"
The Black Loyalist Academic Conference of Knowledge (BLACK) returns for Emancipation Day weekend with a focus on Black history, Black literature, and Black art in the Atlantic Provinces.
This year’s theme, Beyond the Archives, invites scholars, artists, writers, and community historians to explore how Black history lives not only in documents but in place, memory, creativity, and lived experience across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the broader Atlantic world.
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.
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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:
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...
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Acadiensis: Present and Past
Acadiensis is seeking submissions for its “Present and Past” series in the journal, initiated in 2012. After a brief hiatus, the current editorial team is seeking thought-provoking manuscripts that address urgent social issues facing the Atlantic region.
CFP: Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution
https://blackmaplemagazine.com/events/call-for-abstracts-academic-conference
Slavery North invites abstracts for 20-minute papers in Humanities and Fine Arts disciplines that engage new approaches and perspectives, interrogate un(der)studied archives, and tackle original topics and themes on the art, cultural, material, and traditional histories of the Revolutionary War on both sides of the 49th parallel. We especially encourage contributions that recuperate and center the aspirations, resistance, perspectives, and experiences of enslaved people and communities.
Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, December 19, 2025
CFP: 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference
From Harbour to Horizon: Recharting Atlantic Canada Studies
Acadiensis looks forward to receiving submissions resulting from the 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference that will be held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island from June 3rd-5th.
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CFP: CHA 2026 Meeting in Charlottetown
https://event.fourwaves.com/cha-shc-2026/pages
The 2026 Canadian Historical Association annual meeting will be held from June 1st to 3rd at the University of Prince Edward Island. This is an in-person conference and the first CHA meeting held in Atlantic Canada since 2011. The Program Committee invites proposals for papers and panels that reflect on the relationships between self, other, and their power dynamics either in the past, as represented in public history, or in historical pedagogy.
Release of Acadiensis 54, no. 1
We are pleased to announce the release of Acadiensis, Vol. 54, No. 1!
This issue features collaborative research articles, as well as critical reviews examining award-winning texts on the Atlantic region. Bernard Allaire, Nicolas Landry, and Brad Loewen uncover records written by 17th-century notary Jacques Cousseau regarding Basque fishing along the Atlantic coasts of Newfoundland and Acadie, while Matthew Hatvany and Laura-Lee Bolger reveal the tourist industry’s reimagination of the nordicity and peripherality of Anticosti beginning in the late 19th century.
The Marshall Decision @ 25
In 1999, the Marshall decision raised questions about Mi’kmaw treaty rights, Indigenous fisheries, and settler colonialism that remain persistent today...
CFP: The Oar - New Brunswick’s Popular History Magazine
The Oar, New Brunswick’s popular history magazine, will launch in Summer 2026 as the new official annual periodical of the York-Sunbury Historical Society and Fredericton Region Museum. To better encapsulate the storied pasts of this place and the peoples who live here, the mandate of The Oar will include histories and narratives not fixed within the Fredericton region or Wolastoq [Saint John] River Valley. In the spirit of propelling forward the telling of these shared stories and pasts, this new publication invites submissions from contributors interested in writing pieces for popular or wide audiences.
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CFP: Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Conference
Please join us in Moncton (NB) for this year’s conference, co-hosted by the Université de Moncton and Crandall University. A reception and keynote lecture will be held on the evening of October 24 at the Université de Moncton, followed by a day of papers on October 25, at Crandall University (10 minutes away by car).
We are eager to receive proposals in English or French for papers (15-20 minutes), panels (3-4 papers on a specific topic), or posters from scholars at any career stage (including graduate students and undergraduates working on honours projects). As a broad and inter-disciplinary group, the AMEMG welcomes work on any subject of interest to scholars in the fields of medieval or early modern studies, broadly conceived.
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Welcome to the latest edition of Acadiensis, Vol. 53, No. 2!
CFP: Atlantis – Revolution and Resurgence: Celebrating Feminist Publishing
In 2025, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice celebrates our 50th year of publishing critical feminist research, commentary, literary work, and visual art. To mark this occasion, we are holding a two-day, hybrid conference at Mount Saint Vincent University, Kjipuktuk (Halifax).
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CFP: Ecologies, knowledge, and power in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region, c.1500-present
2025 Call for Papers
“Ecologies, knowledge, and power in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region, c.1500-present” is a SSHRC-funded collaborative project that is being co-led by Dr. Joshua MacFadyen, University of Prince Edward Island, and Dr. Erin Spinney, University of New Brunswick, Saint John. The project involves over thirty collaborating scholars and focuses on the Gulf region in its own right rather than a periphery of, or a throughfare to, other places. The project seeks to bring together a variety of scholars to ask questions about the region that are based on the premise that the Gulf of St. Lawrence constitutes a distinct spatial system which has been shaped by the marine environment.
CFP: Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum
Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum
Call for Papers, Twelfth Annual Workshop
Friday, July 25, 2025
Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
Deadline: May 2, 2025
The Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) brings together a group of scholars exploring the environmental history of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.
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Release of Acadiensis 53, no. 1
We are excited to announce the release of the latest edition of Acadiensis, Vol. 53, No. 1!
In this issue scholars Keith Grant, Nicole Gilhuis, Carli LaPierre, Anthony Dickinson, and Chesley Sanger contribute research articles exploring the complexities of identity and race in early Nova Scotia, the challenges of economic diversification in mid-20th-century Newfoundland, and the role of French cartography in shaping imperial imaginings.
The Latest from the Blog: Willow Grove’s Eliza Taylor and Early Photography in New Brunswick, 1839-1872 by Kelann Currie-Williams
In the thirty-three years between slavery’s abolition in the British Empire and the signing of the British North America Act (later renamed the Constitution Act in 1982), at least six major photographic processes had been introduced and fervently embraced in what would become the settler-colonial state of Canada...
Les droits linguistiques des francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick depuis l’affaire Louis Mailloux de 1875 à Caraquet
In January 1875 the Acadian Community of Caraquet witnessed a tragic event, costing the lives of the young Louis Mailloux and the militia man John Gifford from the Miramichi. The Municipality of Caraquet wishes to commemorate the 150th anniversary of this dark day by organizing a one-day Conference on the 15h of May at the Village Historique Acadien in Bertrand, near Caraquet.