Students with disabilities who plan to enroll in one of the graduate program tracks at the Department of English and who meet the minimum enrollment criteria are hereby reminded that they have the right to directly enroll in the desired track (students with disabilities who enroll directly fall outside the regular track quotas). To exercise the above right, students are required to submit proof of their disability to the enrollment supervisor (either bring a hard copy to the Department or send a scan to htutek@ffzg.hr).

For all questions related to choosing a track, classes offered or the required workload, students can contact Nataša Pavlović (npavlovi@ffzg.hr).

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The call for applying for the 69^th Scottish Universities’ International Summer School (SUISS),
which will take place from the 11^th July – 20^th August 2016 is now open.

Students can apply for
– a four-week course in Creative Writing
– three two-week courses in Modernism, Scottish Literature and Contemporary Literature
– a two-week course in Contemporary British and Irish Theatre and Performance

Students can attend a single course or a combination of courses. All courses can be taken for university credits on undergraduate and graduate level.

Courses are supplemented by a wide-ranging social and cultural programme, and will include readings by contemporary Scottish authors such as A. L. Kennedy, Ian Rankin, David Greig and Liz Lochhead.

For the latest information on the School, please visit http://www.suiss.ed.ac.uk. Please note, if three students from the same university attend our courses, the SUISS offers them a 20% discount off the course fee. There is also a variety of scholarships that are awarded on merit and financial need.
Details are available from the SUISS web site.

Applications which also include the application for any of the available scholarships must be received no later than Friday, 18th March 2016.

For more information, visit the SUISS web site

Department of English contact: Iva Polak

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Master in Advanced English Studies: Languages and Cultures in Contact

THE MASTER IN ADVANCED ENGLISH STUDIES: LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT is an official Master’s program offered by the Universidad de Salamanca and the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain in English studies.

Admission period to sign up for

is now open.

For more information on our program please visit:

http://masterenglishstudies.eu/en/
https://www.facebook.com/masterenglishstudies?ref=hl

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The Master’s in Advanced English Studies: Languages and Cultures in
Contact consists of 60 credits and takes one academic year to complete.
Classes are held at the University of Salamanca during Fall semester, and
at the University of Valladolid in the Spring semester.
The Master’s in Advanced English Studies: Languages and Cultures in
Contact is a flexible program that offers three academic itineraries in
language and linguistics, and literature and culture, or a combined
program of linguistics, literature and culture. Students are free to
choose courses offered by these itineraries according to their academic
or professional preferences. The subjects offered reflect the major
research lines and methodological trends in the fields of English
Language Learning and Linguistics, and Anglo-American Literature and
Culture.

The goals of the Master’s program are to enable students to acquire the
necessary competencies and skills characteristic of an advanced,
specialized, and interdisciplinary education. The program prepares
students for the demanding standards of the international job market and
allows access to the PhD program, that has been distinguished by the
Spanish Ministry of Education for its Quality of Excellence.

The Master’s is aimed at both the professional training for teachers of
English as a Foreign Language and the preparation of future researchers
in academia. The study plan also addresses the curricular needs of future
cultural mediators who work in the media, press, embassies, ministries,
archives and libraries.

This Master’s has an inter-cultural, and interdisciplinary orientation.
Since its beginnings, in 2007, it has welcomed international students
from all over the world: US, China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Iran,
Cuba, Syria, Colombia, Romania, etc.

More reasons to sign up for this program:

The University of Salamanca (1218) is Spain’s oldest university and the
fourth oldest in Europe. The University of Valladolid also dates back to
the 13th century.

In the Humanities, both the University of Salamanca and the University of
Valladolid hold an indisputable international prestige in areas of
research and teaching innovation. These institutions are linked to the
creation of the first grammar and to famous historical figures such as
Cervantes, Lope de Vega Fray Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz, Torres
Villarroel, and Miguel de Unamuno, among many others.

7th Triennial International Conference of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies 9 – 10 October 2015, Zagreb, Croatia
Beyond the 49th Parallel: Canada and the North – Issues and Challenges

Keynote speakers:
Aritha van Herk (University of Calgary, Canada)
Daniel Chartier (l’Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)

Special guest: 
Mark Anthony Jarman (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
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3rd and last CALL FOR PAPERS

We welcome proposals for twenty – minute presentations in the field of Canadian Studies.
We accept paper proposals in English and French.
Abstracts of between 150 and 250 words + a brief CV (150 words) should be submitted via the Paper Proposal Submission Form, which is to be found on the conference website.
This must be sent by 10 June 2015 to the conference e-mail
zagreb2015conference@gmail.com

Notification of acceptance of paper by 15 June 2015
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3rd Call for papers (English) (.pdf)
3rd Call for papers (French) (.pdf)

Conference website:
http://zagreb2015.hkad.hr/

For more information, email us at
zagreb2015conference@gmail.com

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North, in Western culture, is the fundamental direction.

As a geographical notion, “the North” can be used to indicate any or all locations in the northern hemisphere, from the equator to the North Pole. In relation to the United States, all of Canada can be seen as “the North”. But within Canada there is a whole range of different “Norths”, both historically and at present: the “Pays d’en Haut” of the voyageurs, the old Northwest, today’s camping and cottage country “up north”, the northern regions of many of the provinces (differing across the country), the northern territories (Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut), the Far North. Each of these reflects a different kind of “nordicity”, to use Canadian geographer Louis-Edmond Hamelin’s now widely adopted term.

Beyond geography, “the North” is also a concept, one that encompasses a broad range of meanings and symbolic values. It is an imagined space as well as a space for the imaginary, a space of myth as well as a space shaped by myth, by turns cruel and ennobling, enigmatic and inspiring, powerful and fragile. The country’s “northerness” is often viewed as one of its distinguishing features, a vital element in the Canadian identity – even when “the North” in this case may mean only the non-urban part of Canada north of the thin populated band hugging the border with the United States. It is also a source of pride – “the true North, strong and free” – and, increasingly, in an era of climate change, a challenge. Canada’s imagined and real Norths have been literary and cultural obsessions for centuries.

The aim of this conference is to explore both the literal and the imaginative aspects of the relationship between Canada and “the North” – geographical, economic, literary, linguistic, cultural, social, political, diplomatic, environmental. We seek submissions from all disciplines that deal with Canada and Canadian Studies. The topics may include but are NOT limited to:

– the North and its representations: real and imaginary territory
– the North in Canadian literature: nordicity and its varieties
– First Nations artwork and literature
– the symbolic North in Canadian culture: hockey, curling, winter carnivals, canoes
– living in the North: Aboriginal communities, the life and survival of traditional cultures, demography and development of local communities, social problems
– North and South: Canada as America’s “North”, southern Canada and its “North”
– decision-making in the North: the roles of federal, provincial and territorial governments and of local administration
– the North and economic questions: exploitation of resources, gas and oil exploration, tourism
– the North and the international community: defense of Canadian sovereignty, the Arctic Council

We welcome proposals for twenty-minute presentations in the field of Canadian Studies. We accept paper proposals in English and French. Abstracts of between 150 and 250 words + a brief CV (150 words) should be submitted via the Paper Proposal Submission Form, which is to be found on the conference website. This must be sent to the conference e-mail zagreb2015conference@gmail.com by 20 March 2015. Notification of acceptance of paper by 20 April 2015.

Conference website: zagreb2015.hkad.hr

For more information, email us at zagreb2015conference@gmail.com

After the conference, selected papers will appear in a special publication issued by the Central European Association for Canadian Studies.

Organizing Committee of the Croatian-Canadian Academic Society:
Vanja Polić (University of Zagreb)
Evaine Le Calve – Ivičević (University of Zagreb)
Marija Paprašarovski (University of Zagreb)

Secretaries:
Hrvoje Puh (University of Zagreb)
Nikola Kajin (University of Zagreb)

Academic Advisory Board for the Central European Association for Canadian Studies
Rodica Albu (Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi)
Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana)
Janos Kenyeres (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Lucia Otrísalová (Comenius University, Bratislava)
Don Sparling (Masaryk University, Brno)
Diana Yankova (New Bulgarian University, Sofia)

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The University of Graz
is delighted to inform you that the Call for Applications for the
Graz International Summer School Seggau 2015 – Shifting Perspectives: Europe and the Americas
is now open

For more information please chek the offer for the 2015 Fellowships at the Centre Culturel Irlandais / Irish College Paris.
The offer is also available on our website:
http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/libraries/bourse-detude
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The Old Library contains 8,000 volumes (from the 15th to the 19th century). Once the library of the Irish College when it was a seminary, the collection contains works of theology, history, philosophy etc.

More than 19,000 items are held in the Historical Archives, covering a period extending from the 14th to the 20th century. The main themes are daily life at the Irish College and the buildings which were owned by the Irish Community, the grant foundations, the religious community etc.