Narratives of Happiness and Resilience

👋 The Premise of Happiness is a research project that offers interdisciplinary readings of contemporary North American narratives that actively engage with the notion of happiness as articulated and deconstructed by recent studies of affect. 🔗 ull.es/portal/the-pre…

👀📅The next @RobartsCentre discussion in the "What is Happening in Canada?" series will take place on Wednesday April 15 (1-2 EST), and will be delivered by @RaymondBBlake, @UofRegina. Registration here: yorku.ca/research/robar… More info down below⬇️

🗓️👀New #CfP the International Journal of Canadian Studies is open to submissions on a special issue titled "The Study of Canada Post-2025: Continuity and Ruptures." Deadline: Oct 1 2026 Wordcount: 6000-8000 More information down below⬇️⬇️ Don't miss out!

Huge congratulations to our team member Fabián Orán Llarena on his well-deserved tenured position at ULL! So much happiness! Great work, @OranLlarena !

👀📅New #CFP @canadianlit is accepting submissions for the special issue "From One Solitude to Another: Dialogues around Québécois Literature, Indigenous Literatures, and CanLit" Deadline: Dec 15 2026 (Pacific) More information below⬇️ canlit.ca/call-for-paper… Don't miss out!💻

📻Canarias Radio La Autonomica recently interviewed our member Claudia Miller regarding her doctoral dissertation on Inuit life writing in the context of Arctic climate change. Here’s a link to the full interview⬇️ youtu.be/PLkHyCltoHI?si…

Huge congrats to our team member @susillarena on the publication of her article "(Re)Creating Embodied Vulnerability and Relocation in Y-Dang Troeung’s Landbridge" in @canadianlit Don't miss the excellent contributions featured in this special issue: canlit.ca/new-issue-261-…

📚Our team member Jose Alegría Hernández published the article “Indigenizing the Galaxy: Terristory and Kinship in Drew Hayden Taylor’s 'Lost in Space’” in Anglica Wratislaviensia 🔗czasopisma.uwr.edu.pl/awr/issue/view… Well done!! 👏👏

Congratulations to our dear @claumiller15✨

Huge congratulations to our colleague and team member Alejandra Moreno Álvarez (@AMAUniovi) on her well-deserved promotion to full professorship. Wishing you continued success in this new phase of your academic journey👩🏼‍🎓💜👏🏽

We would like to thank @AmandaRicci85 for her wonderful seminar “At the Heart of the City: The Garment Industry in 1930s Montreal.”🤗 Thank you to all who participated in the fascinating discussion that followed. More to come on our next 📌#TransCanadianNetworksOnlineSeminars

We would like to thank Sheila Hernández for her wonderful seminar: “Monstrous Girls and (Un)Happy Gender Expectations in Hiromi Goto.” Thank you also to all who participated in the engaging discussion that followed. More to come on our next #TransCanadianNetworksOnlineSeminars

📅📌The next TransCanadian Networks seminar will be led by @AmandaRicci85, @YorkUniversity @RobartsCentre. It'll take place on Thursday Dec 11 at 17.00 (Canary Islands) Reading materials available on the QR code⬇️ Link here: meet.google.com/czi-jdhm-gez Free event and open to all🤗

Our team member @_c_diaz presented the paper “Cripping Survivorship: The Queer Chronicities of Breast Cancer in Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza’s Kimiko Does Cancer” at the 48th AEDEAN Conference @aedeaninfo 📚💭

Our team member Pilar Cuder-Domínguez @UniHuelva delivered the plenary lecture “Uncoupling the Archive of Black Life in Black Canadian Writing” at the #48AEDEANConference in @upvehu. Well done Pilar!🤗

📍📅Reminder that this event will take place on Thursday October 30th. As always, it is free and everybody is welcome. More info down below ⬇️⬇️Don't miss out!

We would like to extend our most heartfelt congratulations to our team member Dr Claudia Miller on passing her viva and successfully defending her doctoral dissertation👏🎊. Well done @claumiller15! Wishing you the very best in the next chapter of your academic journey!✨📚

📌📅New #CfP @canadianlit is now accepting submissions for a special issue on "Authoritarianism, Anti-Fascism, and Literary Resistance" The submission deadline is June 1, 2026 For more information click here: canlit.ca/call-for-paper… Don't miss out!👀

📌📅Robarts Connects is organizing the event “From Conference to Publication” designed to help students improve their conference presentation skills and gain insight into the academic publishing process. More info down below⬇️⬇️ and registration here yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

📌📅“What is Happening in Canada?” a webinar series organized by the @RobartsCentre and aimed at graduate students, is now open for registration. More information down below⬇️⬇️ Don’t miss out!👀👀

📚✨ Call for Papers – Special Issue ✨📚
 Are you working on Canadian children’s or YA literature?  Canada and Beyond invites submissions for a special issue on New Perspectives and Emerging Conversations in Children’s and YA Literature in Canada/Turtle Island.