Third Biennial Western Canadian Studies Conference

The Directions West Conference invites submissions of papers,
panels, and roundtables that address the many directions
people have traveled--geographically, imaginatively,
socially, creatively, intellectually, historically--to create
the West, as lived experience, and
as constructed and contested in human imagination.

People have moved into and through the West for millennia,
sometimes settling, sometimes sojourning, and sometimes
returning home. We invite submissions that interrogate
those journeys. How have various people mapped their ways
into and through the North American Wests? How have
we/they mapped this place as home, as politically
bounded space, as borderland, as colony? And how have
these journeys and templates intersected, collided, and
collaborated in the meetings among First Nations and the
women and men of diverse ethnicities and cultures who
converged to shape the western social landscapes?

More information:
hist.ucalgary.ca/dnswest/content/accommodations
hist.ucalgary.ca/dnswest/sites/hist.ucalgary.ca.dnswest/files/CFP.pdf