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One of Canada's leading historical journals, Acadiensis is devoted to the study of the Atlantic region and remains the essential source for reading and research in this area.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For more concerning the journal’s history, see P.A. Buckner, “Acadiensis II” (1971) and David Frank, “Acadiensis, 1901 and 1999” (1999).