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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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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.
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For more concerning the journal’s history, see P.A. Buckner, “Acadiensis II” (1971) and David Frank, “Acadiensis, 1901-1999” (1999).